20100505/千警围剿两大黑帮 首波行动78人落网


1000 Police/105 Search Warrants-Gang “Project Corral”-Toronto Police Chief William Blair


Gang Raid-Community Crisis Response Works With Toronto Police To Help Community

千警围剿两大黑帮 首波行动78人落网

星岛日报/19支警队逾千名警员昨晨采取拂晓联合行动,持108张法庭搜查令,突击搜查大多伦多地区、渥太华以至北部的苏圣玛利市百多个目标地点,行动中拘捕78人,搜出10枝手枪、避弹衣、大批毒品和现金,警方将会进行第二波行动,预料有更多人被捕。

多伦多警察总长贝理尔表示,这次代号“围捕”(Project Corral)的大规模行动,目的是要清剿肆虐多伦多市西北区两个有组织犯罪帮派:法斯塔夫瘸帮(Falstaff Crips)及五尖上将(Fivepoint Generals)。这两个帮派都是受另一个名为Shower Posse犯罪集团控制。Shower Posse除了活跃在大多伦多地区,势力也伸展至苏圣玛利、温莎和渥太华,并且与国际有组织犯罪集团挂勾。

警方在调查和打击街头贩毒活动,以及威胁社区安全的枪械罪案时顺瓜摸藤,追查上层拆家以及毒品和枪枝的来源地,花了9个月时间查出一个多明尼加的国际有组织犯罪集团是幕后黑手。

法斯塔夫瘸帮和五尖上将两个帮派,并且涉及2009年12月3日和2010年2月8日,发生在法斯塔夫大道(Falstaff Avenue)的两宗凶杀案。不过贝理尔说,这两宗命案与帮派争地盘无关。

贝理尔在记者会上表示,截至昨日下午1时,多伦多及渥太华警队搜查了105处地点,拘捕78人,苏圣玛利市警方也执行3张搜查令,由于目标人数太多,要分别羁押在12、23和31分局。警方将继续展开第二波的搜捕行动,多明尼加警方亦配合行动,截获企图走私入多伦多的72公斤可卡因,这次行动得以成功,全靠19支警队互相合作,彼此交换情报。

高级督察伊尔(Staff Inspector Mike Earl)说,两个帮派在区内为非作歹,这次是清除地方上的一个大毒瘤。他说,执法人员与受害人服务部门紧密合作,并且与市政府的紧急应变小组合作,协助重建社区。

他说,星期二清晨5时的搜捕行动出动过千名警员,包括36队合共340名特别应变部队成员(ETF)。行动中搜获10枝手枪、3万元现金、10,500元赌场支票、钻石、73公斤可卡因和块状可卡因(其中72公斤是在多明尼加截获)、1.5公斤大麻、大麻油、过千粒狂喜丸、避弹衣以及多辆汽车。

参与今次行动的19支警队,包括多伦多市警、安省省警、皮尔区警方、咸美顿警方、渥太华警方、杜咸区警方、约克警方、苏圣玛利警方、南闪高警方、伦敦市警、巴里市警、滑铁卢区警方、京士顿市警、贵湖市警、荷顿警方、比尔维尔警方、彼得堡 Lakefield警队、尼亚加拉警方及皇家骑警。

帮派争地盘现破案契机 瓦解毒帮千警拘71人

明报/一个长年从牙买加进口毒品并在多市批发的贩毒集团,一直是多市警方的眼中钉。但由于该组织十分严密,警方的渗透和调查工作难有进展。

组织严密 警调查受阻

直至去年8月,多市怡陶碧谷北部地区接连发生与帮派争夺地盘有关的抢劫和枪击案件之后,警方才获得突破口开始连串调查,终于在昨日凌晨动员千名警员在大多区及渥太华进行大搜捕,一举将这一贩毒集团及两个下层帮派连根拔起。

据多市警方反毒组的葛蒂(Greg Getty)警司称,这个名为Shower Posse的贩毒集团,从牙买加大量走私毒品可卡因粉末,然后再批发给多市的两个较小帮派Falstaff Crips和Five Point Generals。

贩毒范围遍及全省

贩毒集团的活动范围遍及安省各地,远至苏圣玛丽(Sault Ste. Marie)、温莎市和首都渥太华。

“我们以前在调查街头贩毒活动时,往往都会顺藤摸瓜地查找毒源,也早就隐约知道有这样一个从事毒品走私和批发的贩毒集团。但这样的集团往往组织非常严密,我们的渗透和调查工作一直没有突破,难以找到确凿的证据。”

不过,Shower Posse集团控制的那两个小集团却为警方提供了破案的契机。去年8月起,多市西北部地区接连发生多宗枪击和抢劫案件,其中甚至还包括两宗发生在去年12月和今年2月的凶杀案。

葛蒂警司说:“这些连串的恶性案件,都与这2个小帮派之间争夺地盘有关。我们警方抓住调查这些案件的机会,开始执行‘赶入围栏行动’(Project Corral),终于接触到Shower Posse集团的核心,并在4日凌晨进行千警扫荡行动。”

19支警队出动

参与今次行动的警队共19支,警方的扫荡大获成功,总共逮捕71名疑犯。警方还缴获了10支枪械、3万元现金赃款、各种珠宝和毒品,防弹背心以及车辆等。

Project Corral, Update, TPS posts news conference on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter

Toronto Police Service News Release

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 – 5:05 PM
Organized Crime Enforcement
416-808-2500

In the early-morning hours of Tuesday, May 4, 2010, more than 1,000 police officers executed 105 search warrants throughout the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa, resulting, so far, in 71 arrests. In the course of executing these search warrants, police officers from numerous services across Ontario, including 36 tactical units, were used.

Officers have, so far, seized:

– 10 firearms
– $30,000 cash
– $10,500 in casino cheques
– diamonds
– cocaine
– crack cocaine
– marijuana
– hashish oil
– Ecstasy pills (more than 10,000)
– body armour
– vehicles

1000 Police/105 Search Warrants-Gang “Project Corral”-Toronto Police Chief William Blair

Torontopolice — May 04, 2010 — Toronto Police Chief William Blair updates the media at Toronto Police Headquarters May 4, 2010 after 1,000 police officers executed 105 search warrants in the greater Toronto area and Ottawa.

Project Corral
Broadcast time: 13:00
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Gun & Gang Task Force
416−808−7100

In the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 4, 2010, more than 1,000 police officers executed 105 search warrants throughout the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa, resulting, so far, in 71arrests. In the course of executing these search warrants, police officers from numerous services across Ontario, including 36 tactical units, were used.

Officers have, so far, seized:
− 10 firearms
− $30,000 cash
− $10,500 in casino cheques
− diamonds
− cocaine
− crack cocaine
− marijuana
− hashish oil
− Ecstasy pills (more than 10,000)
− body armour
− vehicles

Project Corral started in August 2009, under the direction of the Gun and Gang Task Force Major Project Section. It focused on a number of violent crimes in the northwest area of Toronto, believed to be a result of conflict between the areas criminal organizations. The suspected causes included territorial control, criminal−organization hierarchy, and drugs.

Project Corral became a joint−forces operation, with the following agencies joining the Toronto Police Service: the Ontario Provincial Police, the Peel Regional Police Service, the Hamilton Police Service, the Canada Border Services Agency, and the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

The investigation identified members of the Falstaff Crips and the Five Point Generals. They allegedly trafficked in cocaine and marijuana at street level and were responsible for firearms trafficking and possession of firearms between various gang members.

As a result of the investigation into the Falstaff Crips and the Five Point Generals, it emerged that members of the Shower Posse were allegedly controlling gangs within Toronto, specifically the Five Point Generals and the Falstaff Crips.

The investigation showed the Shower Posse were allegedly responsible for a significant part of the drug trade, not only in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area, but as far north as Sault Ste. Marie, west to Windsor and east to Ottawa.
Two homicides are being investigated that are related to Project Corral.

These investigations are still ongoing:
Homicide #55/2009; Aeon Grant, 19; December 3, 2009; 30 Falstaff Avenue
Homicide #7/2010; Tyrell Duffus, 22; February 8, 2010; 20 Falstaff Avenue

From January 1, 2010 to May 3, 2010, Project Corral investigators, in co−ordination with other police agencies, seized:
− nine firearms
− 73 kilos of cocaine, 72 of which were seized in the Dominican Republic, allegedly destined for Toronto
− 1.5 kilos of marijuana and a quantity of hashish
− $314,000 in proceeds of crime
.
It is expected that charges laid will include:
− instructing commission of an offence for criminal organization
− commit criminal offence in association with a criminal organization
− participate in activities of criminal organization (trafficking firearms, trafficking drugs)
− trafficking in firearms
− possession of prohibited firearm with ammunition
− traffic in illegal drugs
− robbery
− possession of proceeds of crime
− living on the avails of prostitution
Among the more than 1,000 officers in Project Corral, there were approximately 340 tactical
officers, from the following:
− Toronto Police Service
− Ontario Provincial Police
− Peel Regional Police Service
− Hamilton Police Service
− Ottawa Police Service
− Durham Regional Police Service
− York Regional Police Service
− Sault St. Marie Police Service
− South Simcoe Police Service
− London Police Service
− Barrie Police Service
− Waterloo Regional Police Service
− Kingston Police Force
− Guelph Police Service
− Halton Regional Police Service
− Belleville Police Service
− Peterborough Lakefield Community Police Service
− Niagara Regional Police Service
− Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Video recorded and posted by Cst Scott Mills, Toronto Police Service Social Media Relations Officer.

Gang Raid-Community Crisis Response Works With Toronto Police To Help Community

Torontopolice — May 04, 2010 — City of Toronto Community Crisis Response Program Supervisor Scott McKean can be contacted for assistance after Toronto Police gang raids May 4, 2010.

Contact:
Office: 416-392-8710
Cell: 416-526-0588
E-Mail to blackberry: [email protected]
E-Mail: [email protected]

Project Corral
Broadcast time: 13:00
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Gun & Gang Task Force
416−808−7100

In the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 4, 2010, more than 1,000 police officers executed 105 search warrants throughout the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa, resulting, so far, in 71arrests. In the course of executing these search warrants, police officers from numerous services across Ontario, including 36 tactical units, were used.

Project Corral started in August 2009, under the direction of the Gun and Gang Task Force Major Project Section. It focused on a number of violent crimes in the northwest area of Toronto, believed to be a result of conflict between the areas criminal organizations. The suspected causes included territorial control, criminal−organization hierarchy, and drugs.

Project Corral became a joint−forces operation, with the following agencies joining the Toronto Police Service: the Ontario Provincial Police, the Peel Regional Police Service, the Hamilton Police Service, the Canada Border Services Agency, and the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.

The investigation identified members of the Falstaff Crips and the Five Point Generals. They allegedly trafficked in cocaine and marijuana at street level and were responsible for firearms trafficking and possession of firearms between various gang members.

As a result of the investigation into the Falstaff Crips and the Five Point Generals, it emerged that members of the Shower Posse were allegedly controlling gangs within Toronto, specifically the Five Point Generals and the Falstaff Crips.

The investigation showed the Shower Posse were allegedly responsible for a significant part of the drug trade, not only in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area, but as far north as Sault Ste. Marie, west to Windsor and east to Ottawa.
Two homicides are being investigated that are related to Project Corral.

These investigations are still ongoing:
Homicide #55/2009; Aeon Grant, 19; December 3, 2009; 30 Falstaff Avenue
Homicide #7/2010; Tyrell Duffus, 22; February 8, 2010; 20 Falstaff Avenue

Video recorded and posted by Cst Scott Mills, Toronto Police Service Social Media Relations Officer.