Alleged dirty Toronto cop at centre of corruption probe loses bail review

Accused dirty Toronto cop Timothy Barnhardt has lost his second bid at getting bail.

In a bail review decision, which took him more than an hour to deliver, Superior Court Justice Peter Bawden found the suspended 12 Division constable accused of leaking information to criminals still hadn’t met his onus to be released on this second attempt.

Barnhardt was called the “genesis” of the Project South investigation after he allegedly accessed personal information on a police computer about a Toronto South Detention Centre manager and passed it on to Brian Da Costa, who police alleged is a “key figure in a criminal network within the Greater Toronto Area with significant international ties.”

The corrections supervisor was later a target of a foiled murder attempt last June.

Barnhardt faces the longest list of charges — 17 disturbing offences that include drug trafficking cocaine, oxycodone, Xanax, Adderall and MDMA, conspiracy to obstruct justice, breach of trust, conspiring to commit a bribe and more, in addition to unlawfully accessing the police computer system.