Halton police say a three-month-long investigation has broken up an auto theft ring believed to be behind the theft of more than 40 vehicles in the GTA ctv's Raheem ladani is live in Oakville tonight where police gave an update on the investigation Raheem is z good evening police have dubbed this investigation project ninja and what really sticks out about it is how creative the thieves were to try to go undetected watch as surveillance video captures thieves loading the stolen vehicle into a toy Hall RV it happened in Scaro this past July and was the evidence police needed to crack a multi-million dollar auto theft crime ring it just goes to show the criminals are willing to evolve and it's a constant race of trying to stay ahead of us from the outside this looks like a typical RV but come with me around the corner and you can see that the alleged thieves hollowed out the inside completely so they can drive the stolen vehicles right in and head to the port of Montreal without suspicion unless something there's a reason for cbsa to search that that shipping container it often makes its way uh overseas and and that can be in within a day police say these eight men are Algerian Nationals who were legally living in Canada but at the beginning of the year moved to Ontario and were living in short-term rentals across the GTA a search warrant was executed at a residence in ashaa where several individuals of this group were temporarily staying this resulted in additional evidence being seized since May investigators say the groups stole at least 40 Vehicles valued at $3 million targeting Toyota Tundras and Lexus RX 350 SUVs police say they would smash the rear passenger window and then reprogram blank key fobs if they can actually have technolog in the cars that can do everything from streaming Netflix movies to uh you know Auto summoning and Auto driving then they can certainly put technology in the vehicles to to disable the ability be able to steal them officials are calling on the federal government government to put pressure on car manufacturers and enforce stiffer penalties for those convicted of auto theft our only mandate is to make our community safe um so it's frustrating to us and it breaks our hearts when we see uh people going through the trauma for a car only 12 of the 40 stolen vehicles have been recovered so far the rest already believed to have been shipped to Morocco and Dubai Canada wide warrants have been issued for the four outstanding suspects I can also tell you that the four suspects who were arrested at least one of them is already out of police custody after he received bail reporting live I'm Rahim ladani Z I'll send it back to you thank you Raheem to