Toronto police to update ‘Project Pharaoh’ raids Friday
Posted June 4, 2015 8:01 am.
Last Updated June 5, 2015 5:26 am.
This article is more than 5 years old.
Toronto police will hold a news conference Friday morning to update raids targeting the notorious “Monstarz” street gang.
The Toronto police guns and gangs unit executed more than 50 search warrants across the GTA and the province on Thursday as part of an operation dubbed “Project Pharaoh.”
The search warrants were executed simultaneously in Toronto, Peel, Halton, Hamilton, Barrie, Bradford, Durham and St. Catharines.
“I don’t think we are dealing with a street level corner gang,” said Inspector Bryan Bott. “I think we are dealing with a mid level gang,” said Inspector Bryan Bott.
Project Pharaoh was an ongoing investigation lead by the integrated Gun and Gang Task Force and the Provincial Weapons Unit.
More than 700 police officers from southern Ontario were involved in Thursday’s raids.
Thirty-five people have been arrested and transported to police facilities.
The gang members were involved in a criminal organization, involved in firearms trafficking and drug trafficking.
Police collected six firearms, 34 kilograms of cocaine, a large number of Canadian currency, other drugs and some vehicles during Project Pharaoh.
Police said the gang was involved in homicides.
It’s not known how many arrests were made, and police are not releasing the addresses at this time.
These raids follow 19 arrests in other RCMP-led raids targeting organized crime on Tuesday.
Bott said Project Pharaoh will make the summer much safer.
