Criminal charges dismissed against Calgary 911 operator accused of feeding police info to gang members

Meghan Grant · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 16, 2025 3:38 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

A erstwhile Calgary 911 relation accused of feeding protected constabulary accusation to the rivals of alleged pack members, walked distant from her transgression charges Monday aft pleading blameworthy to offences nether Alberta's Freedom of Information and Privacy (FOIP) Act.

Marian Buonincontri, 59, was primitively facing charges of breach of trust, fraudulent usage of a machine strategy and mischief relating to constabulary data. 

Instead, she pleaded blameworthy to 3 counts of collecting, using, and/or disclosing idiosyncratic accusation betwixt March 1, 2022 to Jan. 26, 2023.

On Monday, Justice Karen Molle agreed with a associated sentencing proposal and imposed a $30,000 good — $10,000 for each offence.

After pleading blameworthy to the FOIP Act charges, Justice Molle dismissed Buonincontri's transgression charges.

• 911 relation fed constabulary accusation to associates of FK and Independent Soldiers gangs, tribunal doc alleges

Buonincontri was a elder exigency communications serviceman who worked for Calgary 911 services from May 2013 to January 2023. 

"To efficaciously fulfil those duties, the suspect was allowed to entree a fig of databases" that contained idiosyncratic accusation of individuals, according to an agreed connection of facts (ASF). 

At the clip of her apprehension successful January 2024, constabulary alleged Buonincontri searched accusation connected organized transgression figures successful Calgary and past fed that accusation to rival gangsters. 

• 911 relation charged with leaking constabulary accusation connected to organized transgression figure

According to the ASF, prepared by organized transgression authoritative Brian Holtby and defence lawyer Pat Fagan, Buonincontri admitted to taking photos of machine screens astatine her workplace, utilizing her idiosyncratic compartment phone. 

Buonincontri's plea did not, however, impact immoderate admittance that she was progressive successful organized crime. 

But details from tribunal documents filed successful enactment of a 2023 hunt warrant archer a antithetic story. 

200 screenshots recovered connected phone

At the clip of her arrest, Calgary constabulary said they'd discovered much than 200 screenshots of database searches connected Buonincontri's seized physics devices.

Police were led to Buonincontri after discovering the screenshots on the devices of 2 men arrested successful 2 antithetic cause trafficking investigations successful 2022. 

The 2 men were connected to the FK and Independent Soldier gangs, 2 notorious and convulsive transgression organizations successful Calgary, according to the hunt warrant exertion filed arsenic portion of the Buonincontri investigation.

Investigators believed Buonincontri utilized her high-level information clearance and entree to confidential constabulary databases to hunt the names and licence sheet numbers of known pack associates, providing the results to rival organized transgression groups. 

Police observe a leak

A hunt warrant exertion known arsenic an ITO (information to obtain) outlines details of the grounds constabulary collected to enactment warrants to hunt the compartment phones of Buonincontri, Steven Mark and Domenico Loiacono.

According to the ITO, Loiacono "has been recovered to subordinate with members of the Independent Soldiers," a B.C.-based pack with beardown ties to Calgary.

When Loiacono — who is presently serving a situation condemnation for cause trafficking — was arrested connected extortion and trafficking charges successful 2022, constabulary seized and searched his compartment phone, yet uncovering screenshots of CPS database searches. 

The images contained the names and idiosyncratic details, including licence sheet numbers and addresses of radical nether probe by CPS.

Police launched an probe aimed astatine tracking down a leak wrong the Calgary Police Service. 

Second arrest

Then it happened again. 

A period aft the Loiacono arrest, constabulary took Steven Mark into custody successful transportation with a cause trafficking investigation.

In searching his seized iPhone, investigators recovered 3 much concerning images, screengrabs of protected constabulary database information. 

Mark, according to the ITO, "has been recovered to subordinate with members of the FK, which is simply a known organized transgression group."

The FK radical is liable for a fig of shootings and homicides successful Calgary.

Police looked into which of its employees had searched the accusation recovered connected the 2 men's phones betwixt April and December 2022. 

According to the ITO, the searches were each done by Marian Buonincontri.

Buonincontri has not worked for the metropolis since she was placed connected permission successful January 2023.