The mayor of Brampton, Ont., says a threat against him and his family that prompted police protection and triggered an arrest was allegedly sent in an e-mail from an international server.

“They just said, ‘We’re going to come and kill you and your wife and your son,’” Mayor Patrick Brown told The Globe and Mail.

The soldiers charged in connection with an alleged terrorist conspiracy had been under restrictions that limited their access to army bases and equipment, and none of the weapons, ammunition or explosives in their alleged arsenal originated from the Canadian military, the Department of National Defence says.

The statement from the DND on Monday morning did not say where those items, which were seized as part of the RCMP-led investigation that led to four arrests last week, came from.

A company selling night-vision devices says it parted ways with a Canadian soldier right after police raided his home, 18 months before he was charged this week in connection with an alleged terrorism case.

Corporal Matthew Forbes, 33, from Pont-Rouge, Que., faces 11 criminal counts, including unauthorized possession of firearms and military-grade night optical devices. The RCMP arrested him Tuesday along with three other men from the Quebec City area who were charged with facilitating terrorism.

Some of the kinds of tactical gear that the RCMP alleges was in the hands of the soldiers arrested in Quebec is highly restricted and is generally inaccessible to individuals, experts say.

On Tuesday, the Mounties arrested and charged four men in connection with an alleged terrorist plot. Two are active non-commissioned army officers, one is a former soldier and the fourth a former cadet instructor.

Canada’s national police have arrested four men, including two active members of the Canadian Forces, alleging that they diverted items from the military in hopes of using them to create an extremist militia and take over a plot of land north of Quebec City.

Marc-Aurèle Chabot and Raphaël Lagacé of Quebec City, along with Simon Angers-Audet from nearby Neuville, were each charged with one count of facilitating terrorism.

The man charged by police in the late-night sexual assault of a 62-year-old woman in one of Toronto’s most popular parks was on probation at the time of the incident.

Earlier this week, Toronto police announced that they have laid charges in connection with a sexual assault that took place in High Park on June 4 – an attack that has left the surrounding community on alert. Cortny Henry, 35, was charged with multiple offences, including sexual assault with bodily harm.