Police are seeking the public’s help in tracking down a Mississauga man who’s wanted in connection with 27 break-and-enters in which $150,000 in property was stolen.

Investigators with the Peel Regional Police 11 Division Break-and-Enter and Auto Response (BEAR) unit say Kenneth Levy, 39, is being sought on a total of 54 charges in relation to the break-in spree.

He’s wanted on 27 charges of break-and-enter and commit indictable offences and another 27 charges of disguise with intent, police said in a news release on Monday.

Police didn’t say where or when the more than two dozen break-and-enters took place, nor did they specify what type of goods were stolen in the incidents.

During the break-and-enters, the man responsible wore a medical mask concealing his identity, police said.

Kenneth Levy, 39, of Mississauga, is wanted on a total of 54 charges. (Photo: Peel Regional Police)

Levy is described as Black, standing 5-foot-7, approximately 180 pounds, with short black hair, brown eyes and a dark complexion. He was last seen wearing a black North Face jacket, black pants and a blue Nike hat.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call police at 905-453-2121, ext. 1102, or Peel Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477.

The Peel police BEAR squad is a new crime-fighting team formed to reduce break-ins and car thefts in Mississauga and Brampton. Launched last Sept. 1, it utilizes a specialized unit of plainclothes officers that targets “organized break-and-enter and auto-related crimes.”

The squad is part of a pilot project designed to “enhance enforcement, strengthen victim support and proactively disrupt criminal networks affecting communities across Peel,” Peel police said in late December.

The BEAR unit was established “after a growing trend of calculated and coordinated crimes was identified in Peel, including break-and-enters and auto theft,” police noted earlier.

In the first three months of the pilot, the BEAR unit made “significant arrests, recovered many vehicles and laid over 160 charges, disrupting organized property crime” in Mississauga and Brampton, police added.

As of the end of December, the new squad had arrested 21 suspects, laid 165 charges and recovered 80 stolen vehicles.


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