Police lay 400 charges in ‘Project Monarch’ gun and drug cross-border crackdown. 22 people were arrested in Brampton, London and Toronto after a 10-month long investigation into the illegal distribution of cocaine, fentanyl and firearms.
A joint forces policing operation has dismantled a large-scale gun and drug trafficking network that extended across Ontario and into the United States, agency representatives said Wednesday.
Police arrested 22 people in Brampton, London and Toronto after a 10-month long investigation into the illegal distribution of cocaine, fentanyl and firearms. Included in the roundup were alleged firearm smugglers who were bringing illegal weapons across the St. Clair River onto the Walpole Island First Nation in southwestern Ontario. The river serves as a U.S.-Canada border crossing.
Police seized 27 handguns that were on display at York Regional Police headquarters on Wednesday. Twenty traced back to Florida, Michigan and Ohio. The YRP initiated the investigation in October last year.YRP deputy chief Brian Bigras told the news conference Project Monarch had shut down an “incredibly complex, large scale criminal network.”
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