4/26/2023 0 Comments Crime life gang wars trainer![]() He also started an inmate writing group and joined Toastmasters, an international public speaking and leadership organization to redirect his life path. He became a certified fitness instructor and developed an innovative new program he named 25/7 Fitness, which is featured in the CBC Docs POV film, Prison Pump. While he served eight years of his ten-year sentence, Vivar used fitness to turn his life around. “As soon as I got put in the cop car, a part of me felt relief because I don't have to live that life anymore, and I knew it was done. 50 calibre Desert Eagle similar to the gun owned by ex-Iraq leader Saddam Hussein. His life of crime came to a halt in 2007 when Toronto police arrested Vivar, along with six others, and seized 10 kilograms of cocaine, $130,000 in cash and six handguns, including a rare. He was tried and acquitted of the 2002 murder of Gary Malo, the reputed leader of the rival Christie Boys Gang in 2004. ![]() Over the next decade, he rose through the ranks becoming leader of the gang LA (Latino Americano) Boys in Toronto’s west end. Jose Vivar was just 13 when he began carrying a gun and dealing drugs in his local neighbourhood park, Christie Pits. I am a free man.” - Vivar’s Toastmasters speech I am a writer, an active father, personal trainer, a Toastmaster. I am no longer a drug dealer or a gangster.
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