TORONTO POLICE TO DROP IN ON SUSPECTED DRUG DEALERS

Toronto Police To Drop In On Suspected Drug Dealers

Police in one of the city's most drug-ridden areas will be paying
home visits to several suspected drug dealers to make sure they don't
go straight back to dealing.

This is an effort to prevent more than 60 alleged perpetrators from
returning to work if they are released on bail, Det. Sgt. Ed Roseto
said this morning.

"When an area is known for drug dealing there's a market there," he
said. "They're still coming back."

This four-week project, dubbed Postcard, is follow up to a month-long
series of arrests that netted 64 suspected drug dealers as young as
17 and as old as 63.

Compliance checks are usually reserved for violent offenders, Roseto
said, but the project is being expanded to curb the enormous drug
problem in six key areas of Toronto's 14 division.

The areas are: Bloor and Landsdowne; Bloor and Queen; Bloor and
Ossington; Bathurst and Queen; and King and Dufferin.

Those arrested face a combined 188 charges, including drug and firearm charges.

Between them, they have 173 prior convictions. 14 were out on bail at
the time of their most recent arrest. 11 were on probation. 50 per
cent of those arrested did not live near where they are alleged to
have been dealing drugs.