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Calgary man charged in Project Marvel
A suspect is seen handcuffed in the back of a police car in Toronto. Toronto Police have initiated over 67 search warrants in connection with Project Marvel.
Updated: Tue Dec. 13 2011 15:11:32 ctvcalgary.ca
A calgary man has been charged in connection with a crackdown on organized crime that was initiated by Toronto police.
The investigation, called Project Marvel, was started in Toronto in May 2011. Investigators looked into criminal organizations, attempted murder, trafficking, robbery, prostitution, and other criminal offences.
The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) executed a search warrant at a Calgary residence in the 1700 block of 38 Street S.E. in the early hours of December 13. 
A man was taken into custody without incident and cans of bear spray and mace, along with over $9,000 cash was seized.

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Police arrest 60 alleged gang members across Canada
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Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair and Supt. Chris White from the Toronto Police organized crime hold a press conference to discuss the Operation Marvel arrests on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011.
Police carried out dozens of raids across Ontario on Tuesday morning, arresting 60 alleged gang members, as part of a massive crackdown on organized crime.
Police executed 67 search warrants simultaneously in Toronto, London, Hamilton, Windsor, Ottawa and other jurisdictions for offences including criminal organization, attempted murder, firearms and drug trafficking and prostitution.
More than 900 police officers, including 400 tactical officers, were involved in executing the warrants in the operation, known as Project Marvel.
Police said at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon that among the 60 arrested, 10 were young offenders.

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Toronto police say it was an investigation into a street robbery and shooting in the city’s northwest in May that led to the dozens of raids and scores of arrests carried out across the country early Tuesday morning.
More than 900 officers executed 67 search warrants simultaneously across Ontario and in Alberta and British Columbia.
At least 60 people were taken into custody — about 10 of them young offenders — and are facing hundreds of charges, police said.
“Today, I think we had a successful day,” said Supt. Chris White, of the Organized Crime Unit.
Supt. Chris White said the name Project Marvel was chosen because many of the alleged gang members had taken street names based on Marvel Comics characters.
Investigators say Project Marvel involved criminal organization offences, attempted murder, firearms trafficking and importation, drug trafficking, robbery, shootings, prostitution and other crimes.

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… What is perhaps unique about this particular investigation (is) it revealed a level of mobility among street gangs that we had not yet previously witnessed in this city,” Blair said.
“This investigation revealed that that criminal activity spread well beyond the borders of this neighbourhood, well beyond the borders of Toronto, right across Ontario and eventually, right across Canada.”
The massive investigation, known as Project Marvel, resulted in early morning raids Tuesday in Ontario, Alberta and B.C., resulting in about 60 arrests and close to 300 charges.
More than 900 officers, including 400 tactical officers, executed 67 search warrants in Toronto, London, Hamilton, Ottawa and other Ontario cities, and in Calgary and Surrey, B.C.
“A quantity of firearms, ammunition, drug monies and associated proceeds of crime were seized,” said OPP Supt. Chris White.
Project Marvel, which began in May, involved criminal organization offences, attempted murder, firearms trafficking and importation, drug trafficking, robbery, shootings, prostitution and other crimes, police said.

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More than 900 police officers have carried out sweeping pre-dawn raids mostly in Ontario but also in B.C. and Alberta, alleging murder, drug trafficking and other criminal offences.
Police executed 67 search warrants at locations from Ottawa to Vancouver, and a handful of cities in between. Warrants were issued across the Greater Toronto Area as well as in Windsor, Ont., Hamilton, Calgary and Surrey, B.C..
Although few details of the investigation were available Tuesday morning, a news release issued by the Toronto Police Service (TPS) says that in May, the TPS integrated gun and gang task force, in partnership with the London Police Service, Waterloo Regional Police Service and the Ontario Provincial Police, entered into the joint−forces criminal organization investigation.
As the investigation matured, it spread to other jurisdictions, the release adds.
Project Marvel involves organized crime, attempted murder, firearms trafficking and importation, robbery, prostitution and other offences, it says.

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Police in Ottawa were among the 900 officers involved in Project Marvel who executed simultaneous raids across Canada early Tuesday morning.
“In the early hours of this morning, 67 search warrants were executed simultaneously throughout Toronto; London; Hamilton; Durham Region; York Region; Peel Region; Windsor; Ottawa; Calgary, Alberta; and Surrey, British Columbia,” said a media release from the Toronto Police Service, which is the lead agency on the investigation.
Toronto Police Service Integrated Gun and Gang Task Force began an organized crime investigation in May into alleged attempt murder, firearms trafficking and importation, drug trafficking, robbery, shootings, prostitution and other criminal offences, said Toronto police.
The investigation spread outside of the city’s boarders to include cities across Southern Ontario as well as Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Fort McMurray and Vancouver.
Media spokespeople for the Ontario Provincial Police and the Ottawa Police Service directed all inquiries to the Toronto Police Service, which is planning a news conference in Toronto for 3 p.m. to provide updates on Project Marvel.

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OTTAWA â Toronto police executed search warrants in Ottawa early Tuesday morning as part of an investigation into a series of criminal organization-related offences including attempted murder as well as firearms and drug trafficking.
Police simultaneously executed 67 warrants in the region and at other locations in Ontario and across the country, including Toronto, London, Hamilton, Calgary and Surrey, British Columbia.
The investigation â known as Project Marvel â also involved Renfrew, Ontario, Toronto police said in a release.
Police believe the group was also involved in robberies, shootings, prostitutions and other criminal offences.
More than 900 police officers, including some Ottawa police officers, took part in the raids.
Police said an investigation is continuing into this case, which involves the Toronto gun and gang task force, as well as several other police forces across the country, looking into offences such as attempted murder, firearms trafficking and importation, drug trafficking, robbery, shootings and prostitution.

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TORONTO – Toronto police say they’ll release details this afternoon of a massive investigation that resulted in raids this morning in Ontario, Alberta and B.C.
Early today, more than 900 officers executed 67 search warrants simultaneously across Ontario and in Western Canada.
Police say nearly 400 tactical officers were involved in the raids in Toronto, across Ontario in London, Hamilton, Durham Region, York Region, Peel Region, Windsor and Ottawa, and in Calgary and Surrey, B.C.
Investigators say Project Marvel involved criminal organization offences, attempted murder, firearms trafficking and importation, drug trafficking, robbery, shootings, prostitution and other crimes.
Police say the probe initially involved investigators from Toronto, London, Ont., Ontario’s Waterloo Region and Ontario Provincial Police.
Officials say as the investigation matured, it spread to other jurisdictions in Ontario and then to Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Fort McMurray, Alta.

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The family of Leanne Freeman, a Winnipeg woman shot and dumped in an isolated industrial area of Toronto last month, held a vigil for her on the weekend in Toronto.
Freeman, 23, was found unconscious and bleeding from a gunshot wound to the head in the Port Lands on Nov. 29. She was rushed to hospital and died shortly after.
On Friday, police announced a break in the case, saying they found some of Freeman’s personal belongings in a dumpster.
Police said that although Freeman had worked at times in the sex trade, they don’t believe she was working as a prostitute on the night of her death, nor do they consider her killing a random act.
Last weekend, members of her family travelled to Toronto and set up a candlelight vigil at the spot where she was found on Unwin Avenue.

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Borg said the evidence was found in a garbage bin behind a commercial property near Kingston Road and Midland Avenue on Dec. 2.
He said a person found the belongings while throwing out some garbage and then called police. Officers seized the property and obtained surveillance video from cameras in the area.
A person driving along Unwin Avenue found Freeman, who was still alive at the time, lying in the middle of the deserted street.
She was rushed to St. Michael’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead a short time later.
Police previously issued an appeal for tips and warned sex-trade workers to take extra care and precautions to protect themselves because Freeman was known to work as a prostitute, although they now say that lifestyle doesn’t appear to be a contributing factor.

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