Five Hundred and Sixty Grams of Cocaine and a Loaded Magazine With No Gun Beside It: Durham’s Drug Enforcement Unit Closes an Ajax Warrant and Charges A’Yaan Sheikh, 20, With Three Counts (August 25, 2026)

Half a kilogram of cocaine is not a personal quantity and Durham Regional Police did not treat it as one. What sits oddest in the inventory published Tuesday, August 25, 2026 is the last item: a loaded prohibited firearm magazine, seized from an Ajax residence with no firearm reported alongside it.

Members of the Durham Regional Police Drug Enforcement Unit concluded an investigation on Tuesday and executed a search warrant at a residence in Ajax the same day. Several persons were inside the residence when officers went through the door, along with a quantity of drugs.

The Inventory

The force lists what came out of the house as more than 560 grams of cocaine, a quantity of oxycodone, drug paraphernalia, Canadian currency, and a loaded prohibited firearm magazine.

The cocaine figure is the one that sets the file’s weight class. More than half a kilogram is a supply quantity, not a user quantity, and the charge Durham laid reflects that: possession for the purpose of trafficking rather than simple possession. Oxycodone drew its own trafficking count, which means investigators treated the pills as a separate line of business rather than an incidental find.

The magazine is the loose thread. A prohibited device charge attaches to the magazine itself — in Canada a magazine over the permitted capacity is prohibited regardless of whether a gun is present. Durham describes it as loaded. The release does not report a firearm recovered from the residence, and it does not say what calibre the magazine held or whether the ammunition was matched to anything. A loaded magazine in a house with half a kilo of cocaine and no gun found is either a gun that left before the warrant did, a gun the search did not reach, or a magazine held for someone else.

One Name Out of a Full House

Durham says several persons were located in the residence. One has been charged.

A’Yaan Sheikh, 20, of Ajax faces possession of a Schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking in cocaine, possession of a Schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking in oxycodone, and possession of a prohibited device. He was held for a bail hearing. The outcome of that hearing was not disclosed.

The force does not say how many others were in the house, whether any were arrested and released, or whether further charges are anticipated. That gap matters in a file where the seizure is large and the accused is twenty years old.

What Is Not in the Record

There is no address and no neighbourhood. There is no count of how many people were in the residence, and no explanation of why only one of them was charged. There is no firearm. There is no currency figure, no oxycodone tablet count, no purity or street-value estimate on the cocaine, and no description of the paraphernalia beyond the word itself.

There is no origin story for the investigation — no tip, no surveillance period, no prior seizure, no linked file. Durham does not say whether Sheikh was known to the unit, whether he was bound by any court order at the time, or whether the residence was his.

And there is no organization. The release names none, and none is asserted here.

Where This File Stands

Verified. The August 25, 2026 publication date and the same-day warrant; that the Drug Enforcement Unit ran the investigation; that the search was of a residence in Ajax; that several persons and a quantity of drugs were located; the full seizure inventory including the figure of over 560 grams of cocaine and the loaded prohibited firearm magazine; the spelling, age and municipality of the accused; the three charges as worded by the force; and that he was held for a bail hearing. Source opened and read in full on the Durham Regional Police newsroom.

Missing. The address. The number of people in the residence and their disposition. Whether a firearm was found. The calibre and capacity of the magazine. The amount of currency. The oxycodone quantity. The bail outcome and next court date. Whether more charges are expected.

Not claimed. That any gang, syndicate or organization is behind this supply. Durham names none. That a firearm was present — the release reports a magazine, not a gun, and the distinction is preserved here deliberately.

Update trigger. Any second accused. Any firearm recovery tied back to this warrant. The bail decision. Any statement linking the seizure to a broader Durham Region supply file.