The Toronto police said 42 individuals have been arrested and over 400 criminal charges were laid as a result of a yearlong investigation into a major cross-border firearms trafficking scheme.
The police operation, dubbed Project Moneypenny, saw the seizure of 173 firearms, alongside ammunition and roughly $184,000 in proceeds of crime, from Canada and the United States, according to a press release from the Toronto Police Service (TPS) issued on April 11.
Among the 173 firearms, 87 handguns were seized in Chicago in a vehicle driven by a resident from Arizona and bound for Canada. The guns were covered in bubble wrap to avoid damage, then wrapped in “holiday paper” to avoid detection by border security, TPS Deputy Police Chief Robert Johnson told reporters at a press conference on April 11….