Seventeen people are facing a combined 83 charges related to an alleged criminal network behind violent home invasions, armed robberies and drug trafficking across the GTA, police say.
The investigation by York Regional Police (YRP), dubbed ‘Project Skyfall,’ began following a gunpoint home invasion in Vaughan on Christmas Eve in 2023.
The continued probe “unraveled a larger criminal network that was actively planning home invasions, armed robberies and trafficking drugs,” police said in a release.
With the assistance of Peel Regional Police and the Toronto Police Service, officers executed 48 search warrants and recovered two handguns, one shotgun, and more than $14-million worth of drugs including cocaine, ketamine, methamphetamine, and hundreds of bottles of pills intended to be sold as Oxycodone.
“Investigators were able to conduct a large-scale investigation that culminated with 17 suspects arrested and 83 charges laid,” the police release states.
At a news conference on Tuesday, YRP Deputy Police Chief Alvaro Almeida said six of the people arrested were out on bail or some sort of release at the time.
Police also said four of the suspects were bound by weapons prohibition orders, and one is accused of accessing the databanks of the Ministry of Transportation to “benefit the criminal network.”
Click here for a list of the suspects and charges.