 | Coates hadn’t even been on the police radar over the course of a year-old undercover operation targeting an alleged cross-border gun smuggling network. The then-girlfriend of one of the main targets, Curtis Elliott, Coates was brought in as a “runner”. Two people — one in Canada and one in the U.S. — are still at large. The wanted Canadian is Philip Kwaku Nkrumah, 31. Police believe he’s in either Toronto or Windsor. The Detroit fugitive is Caron Williams, 23.
Those arrested include Curtis Marcelles Elliott, 29, Roy Hill, 27, Kaylee Elaine Coates, 23, Donilo Frank Marentette and Adonios Coutsogiannakis, 51, and Kevin Lewis, 28, all from Windsor. Police also arrested Franco Carmelo Marentette-Derose, 27, of Lakeshore, and Justin James, 35, from London.
“If an organized crime group wants a gun, these are the people they are going to." |  |