Vehicle thefts: major crackdown by the Ontario Provincial Police in Montreal

Around sixty suspects will be arrested at the end of this operation which takes place over three days.

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The Provincial Police Ontario is leading a major operation in Montreal in a vehicle theft case.

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The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are carrying out a series of arrests of suspected vehicle thieves, most of whom reside in Montreal.

According to our information, the suspects targeted by the PPO are suspected of belonging to an automobile theft network. Most are suspected thieves.

Arrests are to take place over three days. Around fifteen arrests are planned for Tuesday and the PPO should have around sixty arrests at the end of the operation.

An OPP detention vehicle is in the parking lot of the SPVM Eastern Operational Center, intended to transport the suspects to Ontario, where they will be charged.

Several of them will head to the Cornwall courthouse for a first appearance. They will then be transferred to the Ontario jurisdiction in which they committed their misdeed.

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Most of the suspects are already known to the police. Several of them have already been arrested in Ontario, and have not respected their promise to appear.

The dragnet would target the bottom of the pyramid of the organized crime ecosystem which specializes in vehicle theft with a view to illegal export towards abroad.

There would be no question of apprehending leaders and illegal exporters, according to our sources.

Open in full screen mode< p class="StyledImageCaptionLegend-sc-57496c44-2 sbxsP">Several officers from the Ontario Provincial Police are in the Quebec metropolis to carry out a series of arrests of suspected car thieves.

The SPVM is assisting in this matter.

An increased presence of police officers Ontario Provincial Police and the Montreal City Police Service (SPVM) are expected in Montreal throughout the week for the purposes of a joint operation. There is no danger to public safety at this time, the SPVM Communications Department declared in writing in order to inform the public of the current police operation.< /p>

For its part, the Ontario Provincial Police does not provide any details on the current operations.

She summoned the media this Friday, at 10 a.m., to take stock of the results of her police operation.

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