Project Brisa News Today

A never-before-seen OPP report — 90 per cent redacted — is offering new insights into the fallout from a series of officer thefts that continue to affect Toronto drug prosecutions.

“Do I remember that happening? No,” testified former officer Lorenzino Censoni. “I’m pretty ashamed of it.”

Project Brisa — billed Toronto police’s largest international drug takedown — fell apart as the defence alleged officers misled a judge to obtain a key wiretap warrant.

What was once dubbed the largest-ever "international drug takedown" in Toronto Police Service history fell through in court Monday after all charges linked to the case were stayed.

The investigation began in November 2020 and police alleged tractor-trailers were equipped with hydraulic traps capable of smuggling as much as 100 kilos of drugs in one trip. Toronto police say hundreds of kilos of illegal drugs and pills have been seized and several arrests were made in what they are calling a “takedown of a major international drug-smuggling ring.” TORONTO – Nine Indo-Canadians are among 20 people arrested in one of Canada’s biggest take down of an international drug...