Canadian Armed Forces members among 7 facing violent abduction charges

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces are among seven men facing charges related to a violent abduction of the owner of a cryptocurrency exchange. Weapons, ammunition and illicit drugs were also seized as a result of that investigation. The CBC's Jamie Strachan is at Toronto Police Headquarters with what was uncovered. All of this started with an attempted abduction at the end of July in the northern part of Toronto. that abduction investigation quickly spiraled into something much larger. The investigation led to a secondary location where a large cache of weapons, equipment, were seized. You can see some of it here on the table. The key thing in all of this is that the seven men that were arrested, three of them members of the Canadian Armed Forces. Investigators also able to say that 2,500 rounds of ammunition, much of which you can see right here, taken from the Canadian Armed Forces. The Canadian Armed Forces not saying at this point whether they even knew that that ammunition was missing. Now the military link, obviously very concerning to Police Chief Myron Demko When you're dealing with people who have a degree of training as we do with members of the Canadian Armed Forces who are prepared to engage in what's alleged here you know taking somebody off the street by force that's incredibly concerning it's concerning because of what they bring to bear in the criminality that's been alleged and concerning for our police officers who would be responding. Now these seven arrests here and all of this equipment that was seized police unsure whether there are links to anything wider that investigation continues police did say that there's been 14 other abductions so far in the city this year 12 of those have been solved but the links to the military especially concerning CBC has reached out to the Canadian Armed Forces for comment has not heard anything yet Jamie Strachan, CBC News, Toronto.