A Peel Regional Police shoulder patch is seen in Mississauga on July 1, 2023.
Peel police launched an extortion investigative task force last December in response to a wave of South Asian business owners reporting threats of violence against them and their families if they didn't pay money to prevent it. Peel police have arrested five men in relation to violent extortion incidents in the Greater Toronto Area between December 2023 and May 2024.
The arrests, which police announced in a news release Friday, come nearly four months after police arrested five other men and laid two dozen charges in connection to 29 extortion incidents, nine of which included firing guns.last December in response to a wave of South Asian business owners reporting threats of violence against them and their families if they didn't pay money to prevent it.
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