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Ontario Provincial Police were expected to announce multiple arrests Thursday morning as a six-month long project targeting gun traffickers comes to an end.
Project Harden culminated Wednesday with several search warrants being executed in Ottawa, Cornwall and the Montreal area. Provincial police would not confirm Wednesday how many people will face criminal charges because the investigations were expected to continue into the night. As of Wednesday afternoon, one arrest had been made in Ottawa.
The project, which attempted to disrupt a gun-trafficking route from Cornwall to Ottawa, was a joint effort headed by the OPP’s organized crime and provincial weapons units and also involved Ottawa police, Cornwall police, Canada Border Services Agency, RCMP and Akwesasne police.
With Ottawa having had a record year of reported gun violence in 2014 — 49 shootings across 52 weeks — city politicians and the chair of the police services board began asking questions about where the guns on the streets of Ottawa were coming from. At the time, Ottawa police said half of the guns they seize come from burglaries that target local gun owners or dealers, while the other half are smuggled across the border in the area of Cornwall and the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory, where warrants were executed Wednesday.
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Project Harden culminated Wednesday with several search warrants being executed in Ottawa, Cornwall and the Montreal area. Provincial police would not confirm Wednesday how many people will face criminal charges because the investigations were expected to continue into the night. As of Wednesday afternoon, one arrest had been made in Ottawa.
The project, which attempted to disrupt a gun-trafficking route from Cornwall to Ottawa, was a joint effort headed by the OPP’s organized crime and provincial weapons units and also involved Ottawa police, Cornwall police, Canada Border Services Agency, RCMP and Akwesasne police.
With Ottawa having had a record year of reported gun violence in 2014 — 49 shootings across 52 weeks — city politicians and the chair of the police services board began asking questions about where the guns on the streets of Ottawa were coming from. At the time, Ottawa police said half of the guns they seize come from burglaries that target local gun owners or dealers, while the other half are smuggled across the border in the area of Cornwall and the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory, where warrants were executed Wednesday.
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