Police make early-morning raids across Canada
 

Police carried out dozens of raids across Ontario Tuesday morning in 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.

Specific information on the number of arrests and charges are expected to be released by Toronto police Tuesday afternoon.

More than 900 police officers, including 400 tactical officers, were involved in executing the warrants in the operation, known as Project Marvel.

Search warrants were also executed in other provinces, including Alberta and British Columbia.

In all, more than 20 police services across Canada took part in the morning raids.

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