{"id":252223,"date":"2023-01-09T16:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=252223"},"modified":"2023-01-09T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:50:10","slug":"montreal-casino-sees-loan-shark-murder-fugitive-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/montreal-casino-sees-loan-shark-murder-fugitive-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Casino Sees Loan Shark Murder Fugitive Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one of two fugitive murder suspects wanted in connection with the December killing of an Ontario woman was arrested Friday. The capture came at the Montreal Casino, police told <em>La Presse<\/em> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_252224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252224\" data-style=\"width: 1245px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-252224 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rong.jpg\" alt=\"Shichao Dong, Lina Rong\" width=\"1245\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rong.jpg 1245w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rong-858x483.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rong-430x242.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1245px) 100vw, 1245px\" \/><figcaption  id=\"caption-attachment-252224\"class=\"text-description\">Shichao Dong, left, and Lina Rong in images released to the public by York Regional Police last month. The former was already facing kidnap charges at the time of the murder. (Image: York Regional Police)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On December 14, a Canada-wide warrant was issued for Shichao Dong, 38, and Lina Rong, 37. That\u2019s after the unnamed victim\u2019s body was discovered December 4 in an apartment in Markham, 30 miles north of Toronto. Dong and Rong were charged with first-degree murder and were said it be armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>York Regional Police did not confirm the victim\u2019s age or identity, or reveal any details about how she was killed.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, they said they had made at least one arrest in the case, without offering additional details.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Previous Kidnapping Charge<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Dong was already the subject of kidnapping and firearms charges in relation to an incident that also took place in Markham in April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In that case, York Police received a tip from Montreal law enforcement that a woman was being held against her will at a hotel in the city. Officers located the victim, who was being held captive by three people, including Dong. Also arrested and charged in the case were Zeping Gao, 26, of Markham and Zhipu Dong, 23, of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was unharmed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p><strong>A fourth female suspect Bing H,an, age 44 of Niagara Falls, was at large, police said. She was also charged with kidnapping. It is not clear if she has since been detained.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The victim in that case had been gambling with the female suspect at a casino, according to police. The suspect told her she could borrow money from a loan-sharking company she knew that would pay out large loans to gamblers. The victim decided to borrow money, but lost it gambling.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were trying to get her to repay the money when the police arrived.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Hidden Problem<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to gain a clear picture of the extent of casino loansharking in Canada, which is believed to be more prevalent among areas with large Chinese communities, such as British Columbia and Ontario. Authorities say victims don\u2019t tend to come forward because they fear retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence produced during the recent hearings by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/top-bc-lawmaker-let-money-launderers-run-riot-in-state-casinos\/\">Cullen Commission<\/a> into money laundering in B.C. included a 2006 memo that identified loan sharking as a serious problem in Richmond, Greater Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>It listed five recent kidnappings, three of which involved possible extortions involving gambling.\u00a0There have also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/river-rock-casino-loan-shark-killer-gets-life-sentence-reduced\/\">several murders<\/a> in the Vancouver area <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/alleged-bc-casino-money-laundering-kingpins-gunned-down-one-dead\/\">linked to loan-sharking.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one of two fugitive murder suspects wanted in connection with the December killing of an Ontario woman was arrested Friday. The capture came at the Montreal Casino, police told La Presse on Sunday. On December 14, a Canada-wide warrant was issued for Shichao Dong, 38, and Lina Rong, 37. That\u2019s after the unnamed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":252224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81887],"tags":[84444,84443],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Montreal Casino Sees Loan Shark Murder Fugitive Arrest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At least one of Shichao Dong and Lina Rong, wanted for suspected murder of a woman in Markham, was arrested Friday at Montreal Casino.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/montreal-casino-sees-loan-shark-murder-fugitive-arrest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montreal Casino Sees Loan Shark Murder Fugitive Arrest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At least one of Shichao Dong and Lina Rong, wanted for suspected murder of a woman in Markham, was arrested Friday at Montreal Casino.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/montreal-casino-sees-loan-shark-murder-fugitive-arrest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Casino.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Casino.OrgNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-09T22:26:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-09T22:50:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rong.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1245\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"701\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casinoorgphilc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Casino_Org\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Philip Conneller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/montreal-casino-sees-loan-shark-murder-fugitive-arrest\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/montreal-casino-sees-loan-shark-murder-fugitive-arrest\/\",\"name\":\"Montreal Casino Sees Loan Shark Murder Fugitive Arrest\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/montreal-casino-sees-loan-shark-murder-fugitive-arrest\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/montreal-casino-sees-loan-shark-murder-fugitive-arrest\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rong.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-09T22:26:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-09T22:50:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/58769b72851c8cf117fb58ca150ebf8b\"},\"description\":\"At least one of Shichao Dong and Lina Rong, wanted for suspected murder of a woman in Markham, was arrested Friday at Montreal Casino.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/montreal-casino-sees-loan-shark-murder-fugitive-arrest\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/montreal-casino-sees-loan-shark-murder-fugitive-arrest\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/montreal-casino-sees-loan-shark-murder-fugitive-arrest\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rong.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rong.jpg\",\"width\":1245,\"height\":701,\"caption\":\"Shichao Dong, left, and Lina Rong in images released to the public by York Regional Police last month. 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