A 35-year-old Brampton man is facing more than 60 charges in connection with what police are calling one “one of the single biggest firearms seizures” in Peel Region history.
Peel Regional Police began an investigation into the suspect in January after receiving information about an illicit drug trafficking operation.Police then executed search warrants at two addresses in Brampton and two addresses in Toronto that were connected to the suspect.
Act. Det. Sgt. Chad Lines told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday morning that most of the contraband was found in “custom made and intricately designed” hidden compartments in vehicles and furniture. “One of our main concerns is the amount of firearms and the concealment methods located within the vehicles. When stopped by police during a traffic stop individuals would have quick and easy access to their firearms,” he said. “Although we never treat any traffic stop as routine, criminals using concealment methods like these and carrying firearms may believe they are going to be arrested for a crime they have committed, posing a greater risk for police.
“We are far from done our investigation,” he said. “With this number of firearms the follow up investigation is enormous and we are just beginning that phase. There is nothing that we have right now that would say that he is part of any organization. We can just hypothesize that based on the number of firearms and amount of illicit drugs that there would be more than just him involved.
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