00:00:17.340I remember back in the day in the 90s when you parked on the side of the road in Toronto and your truck got towed,
00:00:22.420you walked down to the local tow truck place, the closest one.
00:00:25.020Now it may take you up to 45 days, and then they're going to charge you a fee for holding it there.
00:00:30.000There's a bunch of corruption going on inside of the tow truck industry that goes deeper than just you would have thought, OK, that's what we're talking about here.
00:00:36.820But no, because Project Platinum basically police uncovered how some tow truck networks were operating as part of a broader organized crime groups.
00:00:45.080And they weren't just competing for business.
00:00:47.740They were using it as a cover to, you know, commit fraud, drug trafficking, contract violence.
00:00:54.360So making them vehicles of, you know, mules, as we've referred to that before.
00:00:58.860We witnessed that tow truck experience the other night where there was two tow trucks set on fire, then went to the suburbs with firearms where shots were fired.
00:01:11.720It's actually now Project Platinum has defined it as the link to organized crime for fraud, drugs and violence.