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The accused range in age from 15 to 24 years old.

Five of the accused have been released on bail, police said.

The organization had branches that specialized in research, recruitment, planning break-ins and the sale of stolen goods, police said.

Children are suffering nightmares because their homes were violated, Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown said.

The crimes left Brown feeling 鈥渁bsolutely disgusted,鈥� he said.

鈥淥rganized crime is not just a big city problem,鈥� Brown said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not just something you see in movies. It鈥檚 here.鈥�

鈥淎 pattern was identified here,鈥� Peel Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich said. 鈥淎dults were using youths and extreme violence.鈥�

In one of the break-ins three suspects attempted to break into a home on Maybeck Drive in Brampton聽which had a BMW parked in the driveway聽at 2:45 a.m. last August. They fled when they failed to gain entry.

About 30 minutes later the same three suspects stormed into a Boathouse Road home and demanded keys to a Mercedes-Benz.

Three victims at that home were stabbed 鈥� one critically, with a wound narrowly missing his heart, police said.

That was followed by an attack on Sept. 10, when the driver of a Lamborghini sports car was shot and seriously injured in Mississauga. Two suspects were charged with attempted murder in that attack.

Operation Ghost linked that shooting with a string of home invasions and luxury vehicle and jewelry thefts across Peel and Halton, police said.

Police said their case was bolstered by seized phones and an accused鈥檚 statement.

Some $1.8 million in property was stolen and about a third of the stolen property has been recovered, police said, adding that they also seized cellphones, laptops, a replica firearm and a quantity of white powder believed to be cocaine.

鈥淥rganized crime is calculated, well-connected and deeply damaging to our communities,鈥� Milinovich said. 鈥淭hese networks prey on at-risk youth, pulling them into violent, criminal activity. Disrupting these operations and giving young people a way out is critical.鈥�

鈥淭his was an unusually violent, organized criminal network that terrorized families and drafted vulnerable youth into its activities,鈥� Mississauga Councillor Alvin Tedjo said in a prepared statement.