Weapons and drug charges withdrawn against disbarred lawyer arrested in Wasaga Beach

Charges withdrawn against disbarred lawyer The weapons and drug charges against a disbarred lawyer following a Wasaga Beach traffic stop have been withdrawn.

The Crown has withdrawn charges due to a lack of evidence against a disbarred lawyer facing drug trafficking and weapons offences following a traffic stop in Wasaga Beach last summer.

Doron Jorden Kolman was arrested in August 2023 along with a man from North York whose matters remain before the courts. Ontario Provincial Police charged the two men with having loaded guns, ammunition, cocaine, and opioids with them, for the purpose of trafficking the drugs.

Kolman was granted bail after spending more than a month in jail.

The charges were withdrawn during a preliminary hearing appearance on Monday in Barrie.

Kolman, who was called to the bar in 1994, lost his license to practice law in 2001 after he was convicted of fraud when a Newmarket judge found he ripped off over 20 clients of around $1.2 million.

During his initial fraud conviction in 2000, the court learned he battled a "genetic predisposition" to gambling addiction and had an abusive father and alcoholic mother.

After serving his sentence for fraud, Kolman was arrested again a few years later for another fraud-related offence.

Then in 2015, Kolman was arrested as part of an RCMP-led organized crime ring bust. He was one of 19 men arrested in an investigation targeting the 'Ndrangheta criminal organization in York Region and the Greater Toronto Area.

Kolman was charged with conspiracy to commit extortion, counselling an offence and committing an offence for a criminal organization and sentenced.