Toronto- A massive preliminary hearing into Canada's largest-ever police corruption case was put on hold briefly yesterday after one of six accused cops was nabbed on a new allegation of seeking sex for cash on a downtown hooker strip.
Suspended Toronto Police Const. Nebojsa "Ned" Maodus allegedly drove a Volkswagen Jetta up to an undercover female cop at Jarvis and Carlton Sts. late Wednesday night and offered to pay for sexual intercourse.
Maodus was to have been at Old City Hall courts yesterday morning with five co-accused cops for the fourth day of a preliminary hearing into allegations of drug squad corruption.
Instead Maodus was brought into College Park courts in handcuffs yesterday afternoon on the new soliciting charge and for failing to comply with bail conditions.
Maodus was ordered not to drive alone after an alleged road rage incident in London, Ont.
In the drug case, Maodus and five other cops face a total of 40 charges. Maodus alone faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice, assault causing bodily harm, extortion, and five counts each of attempting to obstruct justice and perjury.
He had caused a stir at the preliminary earlier Wednesday when he allegedly swore at an internal affairs cop who sat outside court with the first prosecution witness.
Prosecutor Milan Rupic told Justice James Blacklock that Maodus told the officer: "What the f-- are you looking at."
Evidence from the preliminary hearing cannot be published.
The new allegations of soliciting and breaking release conditions are the sixth set of criminal charges to have been laid against Maodus in courts across Ontario in the past four years.
None of the allegations have been tested at trial.
In 2002, OPP charged Maodus with sexual assault, sexual assault causing bodily harm, uttering death threats, two counts of common assault and weapons offences in Orangeville.
A female alleged Maodus pulled her down a flight of stairs by the hair, kicked, punched, slapped and threatened to kill her.
A total of 13 charges were ordered stayed last February after a judge found an "unreasonable" delay in the case.
Separate Toronto charges of possession of cocaine and heroin for the purpose of trafficking have been reduced to possession and are also under Charter challenge for delays.
His 2002 alleged assault of a Windsor cop fizzled when the cop was charged with stealing lawn ornaments.
Maodus' lawyer, Pat Ducharme, told preliminary hearing Justice James Blacklock on Monday that Maodus is under stress because of severe illnesses to his aging parents in Windsor and he might want Maodus excused from court to see his parents.
