Overview
- Durham Regional Police announced Friday that 46 people were arrested and more than 1,440 charges were laid as part of Project Jetsetter.
- Investigators linked over 200 incidents since 2019 and confirmed about $2.6 million in losses in Durham Region tied to schemes that target seniors and retailers.
- Police described a range of coordinated tactics including large retail thefts, vehicle-purchasing and financing fraud, staged collisions for insurance fraud, distraction jewelry thefts, and exportation of stolen vehicles and goods.
- Project Jetsetter combined more than nine investigations and roughly 5,000 hours of police work, but 164 suspects remain wanted and the probe is ongoing.
- RCMP National Intelligence called the pattern 'criminal tourism,' meaning transient international networks exploit travel and jurisdictional gaps to commit repeatable, high-return crimes and complicate recovery and prosecution.