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Title: One woman crime wave deported – to NZ
Source:
NZ Herald
URL Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a ... id=1&objectid=10598174&ref=rss
Published: Sep 18, 2009
Author: AAP
Post Date: 2009-09-18 18:52:42 by X-15
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Views: 125
Comments: 5
A New Zealand-born woman, dubbed a one-woman crime wave after committing dozens of offences across Sydney, has been deported to her homeland. Patricia Carol Toia, 31, made the trip across the Tasman aboard a chartered jet on September 10 after commercial airlines refused to have her on board. Toia, a drug addict, has been sentenced to jail terms on 30 occasions for offences including robbery, assault and dealing in heroin. In jail she committed another 56 offences including assault, intimidation and damaging and destroying property. She never held a driver's licence but amassed traffic offences which led to her being banned from taking to Australia's roads until 2060. Toia came to Australia at the age of one and had lived here all her life. But she fell foul of the good character provisions of the Migration Act. She had not taken up Australian citizenship. She lost an appeal to the Federal Court on June 30 but chose not to lodge a final appeal to the High Court. Immigration Minister Chris Evans declined to intervene in her case. "As there was no impediment to her removal from Australia, arrangements were made to organise her removal," a spokeswoman for the Immigration Department said. "She was removed via a charter flight aircraft because airlines indicated that they were unwilling to carry her on a commercial flight." She was accompanied by three security officers and two departmental officials. The cost of the flight has been put at between $30,000 and $40,000. The spokeswoman said that was comparable to the cost of deportation aboard a commercial flight because of airline requirements for a deportee to be separated from other passengers by a buffer of empty seats. She said the Immigration Department could not comment on Toia's criminal conduct in Australia. "Suffice it to say she has a long history of petty crime," she said. In a hearing before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in 2007, deputy president Julian Block noted that the description of Toia as a one-woman crime wave was by no means inapt. "She is a threat to the Australian community and Australia deserves protection against her, given that the risk of recidivism is, as must be obvious, very substantial indeed," he said. Toia had argued against deportation on the grounds that she had lived all her life in Australia.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
A person of Color When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole a bike and asked him to forgive me.
As in colored person?
She is The Flower of the Pacific Ocean, descended from a noble race of island explorers who were no doubt oppressed by Captain Cook, that White Devil From Europe.
_________________________________________________________________________ 56? I think I love her!
In 2007, the FBI reported on concern about white supremacists recruiting soldiers, saying "hundreds" of neo-Nazis were in the active military. But in April, a Department of Homeland Security report on extremism that reiterated much the same point was widely criticized by veterans groups and some conservative politicians as being unpatriotic, leading the Justice Department to retract the DHS report. Critics acknowledge that extremism in the Army is a touchy political subject. I'm guessing she's probably shrunk a few heads in her day.
#2. To: Flintlock (#1)
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
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#4. To: X-15 (#0)
In jail she committed another 56 offences including assault, intimidation and damaging and destroying property.
#5. To: X-15 (#3)
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