Officers from the Waterloo Regional Police Service have arrested six men and filed 61 charges as part of an ongoing probe into the thefts of trucks, trailers, and their loads in southern Ontario.
The police’s break and enter, auto theft, and robbery unit carried out search warrants on March 23 in both Kitchener and Hamilton.
During this investigation, officers recovered a stolen tractor-trailer along with tools used to steal commercial vehicles, an electronic GPS device, a telecommunications signal jamming device, tracking devices, suspected heroin, and suspected methamphetamine.
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Authorities reported that the six adult men from Brampton, Mississauga, and Paris, Ont., faced charges including possession of stolen property worth over $5,000, organized crime motor vehicle theft, extortion, possession of an automobile master key, possession of burglary tools, dangerous driving, assault with a weapon, conspiracy and possession for trafficking purposes.
The names of the accused were not disclosed by the police. All six individuals are being held for bail hearings while the investigation continues.
