A Toronto man who is now facing an unrelated murder charge was not brought to court in Barrie earlier this week, delaying his expected guilty plea to various gun and weapons charges.
Victor Bueron, 21 when he was arrested in January 2024, was one of four co-accused who were charged in relation to a high-risk takedown by Barrie police’s tactical support unit at a north-end plaza on Jan. 18, 2024.
Police at the time said they also executed a search warrant at a nearby house related to the “high-risk vehicle stop.”
The Crown was ready to accept Bueron’s guilty plea on Monday and then withdraw the charges his other three co-accused had been facing.
Lawyers for all four and the Crown were in court to proceed, but it was discovered just minutes before the matter was set to proceed in Superior Court that Bueron was not brought to Barrie.
The case was put over until July 21, where they will try again.
With the case adjourned, an agreed statement of facts was not read into the record, which typically lays out the basics of the case. To that end, it was not made clear why the accused was not present, or which institution Bueron was in custody.
The Barrie case aside, Bueron now faces much more serious legal issues after being charged with second-degree murder about two weeks after being arrested in Barrie. He is accused of killing 23-year-old Joyous Magdirilia in Toronto.
The basic facts of both cases suggest that Bueron was in Barrie committing crimes for which he is now about to plead guilty, while on the run from a murder rap in Toronto.
Barrie police at the time said they recovered three guns in the vehicle in which Bueron was travelling, linking two of the weapons to the ones taken in a violent house robbery in Barrie on Jan. 2, 2024.
Magdirilia was stabbed to death on Sept. 24, 2023, near Finch station in north Toronto. The case remains before the courts and none of the allegations have been proven.
