77 cars stolen by group of thieves from Toronto Pearson Airport in Mississauga and nearby [Video]

A high-ranking police official in Peel says car thieves target Mississauga and Brampton, in part, because the region is an attractive destination for people and it also houses Canada’s biggest and busiest airport.

“When we build a community that people want to come to, we have to understand there are people that want to come and prey on that community as well,” Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief Marc Andrews said Friday morning in an update on auto crime at the monthly Peel Police Services Board meeting.

The deputy chief brought board members up to speed on one of the more recent car theft busts by police in Peel.

Project Tallahassee, run out of the Peel police Airport Division’s Criminal Investigations Bureau, identified a “group that was targeting (cars in) parking lots in and around Pearson Airport” in Mississauga between May 1 and Sept. 1.

Andrews said investigators linked 77 car …