Trevor Wilhelm writing at the WindsorStar:
...About 300 charges laid, more arrests coming after police raids. Police say more arrests and gun seizures are likely here after a series of dramatic raids targeting a murderous Toronto street gang that used Windsor as an illicit firearms pipeline.
Investigators said they must also move to fight the invasion of others intent on filling the criminal void left with the crackdown on the Dixon City Bloods.
“Make no mistake, Toronto violence comes into Windsor all the time,” said Insp. Pat Keane with Windsor police. “We work collaboratively with Toronto all the time on a lot of our stuff.”
“There’s always a vacuum. It’s all about money and the misaligned prestige of the world these people live in. So we just have to continue to be vigilant and see where go from here.”
Investigators still haven’t revealed the names of the 28 people arrested Thursday during Project Traveller. But many of them were big players.
“The way that the gangs work is everything filters down to street level people,” said Keane. “This enterprise focused on the people at the top that were moving the guns and the ones that were putting the organization together.”
Police from across southern Ontario converged on Toronto and Windsor for a series of raids that began around 5 a.m. Thursday. Authorities laid about 300 criminal charges for murder, attempted murder, drugs, gun trafficking and participating in a criminal organization.
Keane said one of the people now in Toronto police custody has also been linked to a robbery in Windsor. All of the nine people arrested in Windsor were previously known to police.
About a dozen handguns were seized in Windsor. A next step in the investigation will be tracing where they came from.
In total, police said they seized 40 guns, $572,000 in cash and $3 million worth of drugs including cocaine, crack, crystal meth, LSD and marijuana........
I wonder if it will take years to deport these scum after their sentences are served. It's going to be a farce.
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