Alleged serial killer's mom arrested
By Rob Lamberti
Hyacinth Moore, 49, mother of Mark Garfield Moore, was arrested at her McCowan Rd. apartment around 5 p.m. without incident.
She faces charges which include being an accessory after the fact of murder and obstructing police.
Toronto Police said the woman is accused of helping her son destroy evidence in a homicide and robbery investigation.
Mark, a rapper with the stage name Prezidenteeh, is charged with 54 offences, including four of first-degree murder. He’s also accused of robbing a jewellery store, an attempted murder and a string of drive-by and shooting charges — all in 2010.
Police launched Project Summit focusing on him in the spring.
Detectives expect there will be more arrests in the coming weeks and are also reviewing other unsolved murders.
Police sources alleged Hyacinth’s murder accessory charge relates to the Sept. 10, 2010, slaying of Jahmeel Spence.
Mark is also charged with the Sept. 29, 2010, murders of Courthney Facey and Mike James, and the Nov. 24, 2010 murder of Carl Cole.
Mark is also alleged to have robbed Arax Jewellers on Aug. 9, 2010. A clerk was shot and wounded in that incident.
Police searched the family apartment Wednesday evening for evidence.
She is expected to appear in College Park court Thursday morning.
Hyacinth filed a complaint with police alleging a member of the Gun and Gang Task Force left behind a shotgun on a son’s bed during a search of her apartment this past August.
Another son, Andre, who was murdered in 2008, is considered by police to be the man who shot and wounded Toronto cop Antonio Macias in 2001.
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