Six New Files: Bishnoi, For Brothers, the ’Ndrangheta in Ontario, Damion Ryan, the Kinahans, and the Tow Truck War
We have added six profiles and special reports to the site this week. They sit alongside the eleven already published, and every one of them is linked below.
These are reference pages rather than daily briefings. They are built to be returned to, updated as cases move, and read months from now — which is a different job from covering what happened last night.
The New Files
Canada listed the Bishnoi gang as a terrorist entity in September 2025 — the first India-based criminal organization to receive that designation here. The profile covers the Canadian operational layer in Surrey and the Lower Mainland, the student-visa recruitment pipeline in the CBSA’s own internal wording, the Operation Hard Ball indictments and the four British Columbia men named in them, and a careful separation of what is alleged from what has been proven in the Nijjar file.
Peel Regional Police charged 17 men with 106 offences in May 2026. Police attribute 324 rounds discharged across 16 violent incidents to the network — roughly half of all illegal gunfire in the region this year. The full list of accused as police released it, the Edmonton extension of the file, and a section on what police have not said, including the Bishnoi connection that no law enforcement agency has actually drawn.
The chamber of control, the “there are nine of us” wiretap recorded in a Calabrian laundromat, Thunder Bay, and the Hamilton families — including why calling the Musitanos a straightforward ’Ndrangheta family is wrong. And the uncomfortable part: Italy keeps documenting this structure while Canada keeps failing to prosecute it. One jury conviction in the entire record.
A full-patch Hells Angel with live matters in three jurisdictions at once — a 24½-year sentence in Manitoba, an untried first-degree murder charge in Ontario, and an untried United States murder-for-hire indictment. The file also corrects a widely repeated error about who the alleged American targets were, and sets straight the 2015 airport shooting in which he was the one being shot at.
This one is deliberately thin, and says so at the top. Everything tying the Irish cartel to this country is a single sentence a Surrey trafficker said to an undercover DEA source in 2023. We print the sentence, explain what it is worth, and then list everything that does not exist around it — no Canadian charge, no seizure, no RCMP statement, no Canadian anywhere in the United States sanctions listing.
Usually written about in the past tense. It should not be — Toronto logged 63 tow-linked firearm discharges in 2024, a higher annual figure than anything published for the original peak. How the fraud actually works, the lawyer whose 1,400 files triggered the escalation, Project Platinum and its partial collapse, the second wave of operations in 2025, the convictions set against the charges that went nowhere, and the fact that nobody has ever evaluated whether the 2021 law reduced the violence.
The Rest of the Library
◆ Organization Profiles & Special Reports
- Hells Angels Canada
- The Wolfpack Alliance
- Rizzuto Crime Family
- The Siderno Group
- Blood Family Mafia (BFM)
- Arab Power & Youness Aithaqi
- The Greeks of Chomedey
- The Alkhalil Brothers
- Montreal Street Gangs
- The Wedding Criminal Enterprise
- Underworld in Exile
- The Bishnoi Gang in Canada
- The “For Brothers” Network
- ’Ndrangheta Locals in Ontario
- Damion Ryan
- The Kinahan Network in Canada
◆ Also Under Articles
- Ontario’s Tow Truck War — filed as a special report rather than an organization profile, because its subject is an industry and a conflict rather than a named group.
Sixteen of these are indexed on the Profiles page. All seventeen, together with everything else we have filed as long-form, sit under Articles.
How These Are Written
Everyone named in these files is named because a police service, a court document or a government agency named them. Charges are marked as charges, convictions as convictions, and allegations as allegations. Where a claim is disputed or unverified, the page says so rather than smoothing it over — and where we have had to correct our own earlier reporting, that correction stays on the page.
If something in these files is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. A correction on the record is worth more than a page that never admits one was needed.
— Gangland Files