FINTRAC had issued a "Suspicious Transaction Report" related both GW and his firm, Northumberland Investments. It's not clear if that STR was issued before or after the mass murders of April 18/19.
The STR showed activity related to GW's PayPal account "towards the purchases of vehicle accessories commonly used by police, including items explicitly labeled as being intended for police use via eBay."
Additionally, FINTRAC issued STRs related to GW's credit cards for purchases at GCSuprplus Ottawa for more than $15K. Somoe of the purchases were for decommissioned police cars.
In March, CIBC reported the GW "had requested to liquidate some of his investments," totalling $475,000, in $100 denominations. He received that via Brinks on March 30. An April 202 search of GW's Portapique property "resulted in the seizure of [redacted]."
There is no reason given as to why that amount seized is redacted. GW is of course dead. The secrecy serves no purpose that I can conceive of.
The search warrant goes on to detail Peter Griffon's involvement in printing decals for the replica police cars, info we knew previously from the Parole Board of Canada.
The search warrant document (the ITO) goes on to say that GW was charged with speeding on Portapique Beach Road on February 12. We reported on this previously, here: halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/febru…
It's a VERY strange incident. What were police doing on a remote rural road pulling people over for 1-15 kph over the posted speed limit? It makes no sense, and (so far, I'm still reading) the ITO does not explain it.
On that Feb 12, GW was driving a former police car he had purchased from the RCMP on July 26, 2019.
The ITO clarifies where Cst. Morrison was waiting for Cst. Stevenson and where he was shot. I used Google Maps to illustrate it: 
"Cst. Morrison heard someone, he thought it might be Bruce (S/Sgt Briers) ask for 2 East Hants RCMP members to come to Colchester to assist. Cst. Stevenson told Cst. Morrison that she would come to his position."
"Cst. MNorrison said that he was listening to the radio and found it confusing to understand where the suspect was but thought the suspect was in the Brookfield area and was not expecting the suspect to be coming his way at that time"
This next bit is tragic...
"He [Morrison] noted a Taurus that was coming in his direction a few hundred metres away and questioned whether it was the suspect of not. Cst. Morrison went over the police radio and asked who was coming towards him and Cst. Stevenson radioed that it was her"
Morrison drove south a bit, onto Highway 222, and turned to face back to Highway 2, on the side of the road near the stop sign, with enough room for Stevenson to pull up beside.
"Cst. Morrison noted the push bar on the front of the marked police car and it made him pause but based on the fact that Cst. Stevenson had said that it was her, he relaxed. Other than the black push bar, there was nothing different about the marked police car."
The car GW was driving was travelling at "normal speed," south on Highway 2. It turned left onto Highway 224, and Morrison recognized the driver as GW as shown in the photo he had received with a "be on the lookout for"
Morrison said GW had a "melancholy expression," and then as he turned onto 224 had "a 'grit' look on his face as he started to raise the gun"
As GW started firing (3 or 4 shots), Morrison "floored it," while hitting the ERTT button on his radio, but didn't think it was working. Morrison hit a guard rail, but travelled south on Hwy 2 to the EHS station in Milford
But no one was at the EHS station. "Cst. Morrison thought about what could happen if the suspect [GW] followed him and he would be a sitting duck in the parking lot and [so Morrison] grabbed the rifle and went behind the EHS building"
While hiding behind the building, Morrison heard on the radio a police officer named Tim Mills say "Stevenson is down."
"I believe that the hard body armor worn by Cst. Horrison stopped the bullet from entering his chest/abdomen."
We then move onto an interview of a friend of Aaron ("Friar") Tuck. The friend's name is redacted.
"Aaron Tuck wanted to sell his house in Portapique and move back to Cape Breton and wanted $48,000 to $58,000 for it' [the friend] saw Aaron Tuck get into an argument with [GW] as [GW] had offered Aaron $18,000 for the house."
Lots of the statement to police is redacted, but then we learn the friend knew about GW's replica police car, there was a holster for a gun "in the back of" the car, and , Tuck told the friend that "you could not tell the difference between [GW]'s police car and real one"
Moving on: "[GW] has an uncle in the RCMP and had one of his uniforms but it didn't fit Gabriel." This seems to contradict earlier RCMP statements that the uncle was not involved, although I guess it's possible the uncle somehow didn't know GW obtained his uniform.
In a statement by who appears to be GW's commonlaw spouse...
"[redacted] and [GW] went out for a drive on Saturday, April 18, 2020" — that is, the day of the evening when the murders started — ...
"They drove the back roads and ended up near a Penitentiary that [GW] said his uncle Glynn had been a prisoner there. [GW] commented that he could never go in there."
"They drove through Debert and were in the area of the Deifenbunker" — this is where GW hid out all the following night — "[GW] commented on a building that had asbestos that he could have purchased for $70,000"
"They drove to a building where places were and saw some people there and [GW] commented they were not properly social distancing."
I should add: a while back, working on a hunch, I contacted people at the airport to see if they knew GW, and they told me they did not.
"When asked bout [GW]'s connection to Debert she stated that he like to go there with [redacted] and had been to the Deifenbunker together"
"They stopped at a denturist's residence" — could this have been Gina Goulet's house? — "and [GW] was talking about dentures and Covid. She told [GW] that she wanted to leave and they did."
Lots more redactions, then: GW poured gas on the cottage. "[She] said that the floor was very wet from the gas being poured on it and [GW] told her to be careful. As the exited the cottage, [GW] told her to look back and she could see that he started it on fire"
"[GW] told her that they were going to Dartmouth and she believed that he would burn that place too. [GW] also told here that they were going to [redacted]" — Alanna Jenkins & Sean McLeod's house on Hunter Rd?—"and she believed that was to kill [redacted] and/or burn their place"
GW stocked the car with guns and gasoline. "At the warehouse [GW] poured gasoline on the truck outside the warehouse. [redacted] offered to move the Jeep and [GW] said 'do you think I am stupid'"
More details about her escape into the woods, then: "[redacted] said that in the ddays prior [GW] was very caught up with Covid-19 and was talking about death and said that he knew he was going to die"
"[redacted] said that on Saturday April 18 [GW] pad Peter for splitting wood that day and [redactions] said 'We were making plans. It's like he snapped. I don't know.'"
Back to the uncle: "[redacted] said that the police uniform that [GW] had belong to his uncle [redacted] who is a retired RCMP member and that [redacted] had given it to [GW]. [GW] planned on hanging the red serge on the wall but it never happened."
"[redacted] gave [GW] a hat, high leather boots, the red serge (the whole outfit with the stetson). [GW] got these items 10 year ago."
She spoke about her relationship with GW...
"he seemed like the perfect guy at first and for their first date, [GW] showed up in a convertible with 2 dozen long stem roses."
"[redacted] said that they all went to Cuba years ago and while there [GW] beat his father, Paul, up. She said that [GW] was smashing Paul's head on the pool and there was blood everywhere"
"[GW] had nothing to do with his parents and even though [redacted] liked [redacted] and [redacted] (RCMP uncle and wife), [GW] wanted nothing to do with them [GW] cut family off after there was a dispute over ownership of a house with Glynn"
She was asked about the victims, but she said she didn't really know them. "it was [GW] that made connections with people, mostly when they were drinking"
She "said that the McLeods would come for drinks and knew that they had been married and divorced. [redacted] She thought that [GW] got the handcuffs and corrections uniform from him. "
"She thought that [GW] seemed to like them b oth and there were never any arguments. [redacted] said that [GW] always wanted to collect uniforms."
She "said that Gina Goulet was a denturist and the she and [redacted] had connected at one point. She said that GW did not like GIna at first but seemed to like her after because she and Gina were friends...
She "said that she wondered how GW knew where Gina lived and that GW had pointed out Gina's house when they drove around on Saturday April 18."
Asked about the withdrawal of $475,000 in case, she explained that "GW was paranoid that Justin Trudeau would put into effect a means that if you had money, the government could take the money and give you shares."
Asked about GW's view of cops, she "said that he didn't care for them and thought they were pigs. GW would say the police think they are smart and say that it would be easy to kill them."
That said, "GW would dress up as a police officer and would role play. GW had a whole uniform with a hat, jacket and has a vest."
There's a bunch more info I will get into later today in a full article, but then then there's clarification that the FINTRAC Suspicious Transaction Reports were issued on April 22 and April 30 — that is, *after* the mass murders.
I have other demands, so I'll return with more in a full article this evening.
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