Toronto police are scheduled to release further details Friday morning into the arrests of more than 50 people as part of a guns and gangs investigation nicknamed Project Sizzle.
It is expected Chief Mark Saunders will also display and explain some of the items seized during the operation.
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Police said they conducted 42 search warrants in the predawn hours on Thursday and several more in Montreal with the help of its local police service.
A number of uniformed officers and members of the tactical unit were spotted outside a condominium complex in Toronto’s Fort York neighbourhood as well as an apartment building on Dufferin Street and Liberty Street.
Police say 10 Ontario police services were involved in the guns and gangs probe.