On Tuesday morning, more than 1,000 police officers from forces across Ontario executed 105 search warrants in the Toronto and Ottawa, resulting in 79 arrests and the seizure of $30,000 in cash, $10,500 in casino cheques, 19 firearms, diamonds, cocaine, body armour, vehicles and more than 10,000 ecstasy pills.
Dubbed Project Corral, the investigation began in August 2009 focusing on several shootings and other violent crimes in northwest Toronto that police believed to be a result of fighting between the area’s competing criminal organizations.
While investigators initially targetted members of the Falstaff Crips and Five Point Generals street level gangs allegedly selling illicit drugs and trafficking in firearms police now allege that these gangs were being controlled by the Shower Posse.