Enforcement Forum

TORONTO, Nov. 9, 2017 /CNW/ – Early this morning members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Greater Toronto Area Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (RCMP GTA CFSEU), with assistance from the policing community throughout Southern Ontario, Quebec and British Colombia conducted raids in Hamilton, York Region, Niagara, Innisfil, Vancouver and Montreal.

GTA CFSEU is a RCMP led Joint Forces Operation which includes officers from the RCMP, Toronto Police Service (TPS), Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Peel Regional Police (PRP), and the York Regional Police (YRP).

GTA CFSEU directly infiltrated Traditional Organized Crime at its highest level and today is the successful culmination of that effort.  This investigation, dubbed OTremens, has seen GTA CFSEU, with considerable assistance from the Halton Regional Police Service, Hamilton Police Service and the OPP, charge 9 people with 75 offences including conspiracy to traffic fentanyl and carfentanil, trafficking fentanyl and carfentanil, heroin, conspiracy to import and traffic cocaine, trafficking cocaine, trafficking Methamphetamine, MDMA, MDA, LSD, weapons trafficking and trafficking of contraband tobacco and bookmaking.

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A partnership with the Ontario Provincial Police led Contraband Tobacco Enforcement Team (CTET) allowed this investigation to demonstrate the strong ties between contraband tobacco and the organized crime community.  During this investigation, the CTET seized over 3,000,000 cigarettes, which represents a loss tax revenue in excess of $550,000.

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The following subjects have been charged with the following offences:

• DOMENICO PAOLO VIOLI, of Hamilton
• DIMITAR DIMITROV of Stoney Creek
• ADRIANO VALENTINO SCOLIERI of Richmond Hill
• BERNARDO LUKE ROTOLO of Woodbridge
• TRAN GIANG TANG of Markham
• KAM TIM TONG of Markham
• Nicholas VALENTINE of Vaughan
• ANTHONY JAMES ARROYO of Waterloo
• JAMES LINCOLN JABLONSKI of Mississauga
• A CANADA WIDE WARRANT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE ARREST OF GIUSEPPE VIOLI of HAMILTON
• A CANADA WIDE WARRANT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE ARREST OF MASSIMIGLIANO CARFAGNA of BURLINGTON
• YIN YUN LEONG OF MARKHAM
• A CANADA WIDE WARRANT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE ARREST OF WITTON LUU OF TORONTO, ON
• A Canada wide warrant is being sought for the arrest of WOJCIECH GRZESIOWKI of Innisfil
• Conspiracy to Import a Controlled Substance, contrary to the Criminal Code
• Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking a Controlled Substance, contrary to the Criminal Code
• Trafficking a Controlled Substance, contrary to the Criminal Code
• Trafficking contraband tobacco, contrary to the Criminal Code
• Trafficking Firearms, contrary to the Criminal Code
• Criminal organization offences including instructing and participating in a Criminal Organization.