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A plainclothes officer in a Toyota minivan was driving on a highway north of Toronto Monday when, behind him, he noticed a white Lamborghini.

Fully-loaded with two-tone interior, high-gloss black accents on the front end and black chrome exhaust tips, it was a Huracán Spyder LP 610-4, one of the rarest and most expensive cars on the road in Canada today. Each one is flown in from Italy on a private plane, the whole thing costing around $365,000.

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The officer, Det. Const. Dan Milliard, slowed down. “I wanted to let him go by to check out his car,” he said. As the Lamborghini passed, its top down in the heat, he noticed the driver. He was wearing a black Raptors jersey and basketball shorts, and looked familiar to Milliard, who works in the high-risk offender unit for York Region Police. “He’s come across our office, so I know him.”

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Milliard followed the Lamborghini south. A dispatcher confirmed Milliard’s suspicion: The driver was prohibited from driving. There he was, though, merging onto the Don Valley Parkway on his way into downtown Toronto with an allegedly disqualified licence, in one of the most conspicuous cars on the market.