Printed Firearms

Two Uzi-Style Guns Out of an East Hamilton House, One of Them Printed, and a Printed Silencer to Screw Onto It: Hamilton Police Charge Brandon Mitchell, 41, and Joelene Keogh, 43, With Eleven Counts Each Over Ten Grams of Fentanyl (August 28, 2026)

HAMILTON — The Hamilton Police Service published this file at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, August 28, 2026, the day after the door came off. What officers carried out of a house on Kenilworth Avenue North was ten grams of fentanyl, ten grams of methamphetamine, some hydromorphone pills and some mushrooms — a street-level inventory by the standards of this beat — and, sitting alongside it, two Uzi-style firearms, one of which was manufactured on a 3D printer, together with a silencer that was printed the same way.

The drugs are the reason the investigation existed. The guns are the reason it matters. Brandon Mitchell, 41, and Joelene Keogh, 43, both of Hamilton, have each been charged with eleven counts. Mitchell carries four more, and two of those four are the counts that separate this file from an ordinary trafficking arrest: possession contrary to an order. The case number is 26-737018.

A Gun That Was Not Stolen, Not Smuggled, and Not Traceable

Almost every firearm published on this beat arrived from somewhere. It came north across a land border, or it came off a stolen-goods chain, or it was diverted from a lawful owner. Each of those routes leaves a record that an investigator can eventually pull on — a serial number, an importer, a burglary report, a straw purchaser.

A printed gun has none of that. It has no manufacturer, no serial, no importation record and no prior owner, because until recently it was a spool of filament. The only investigative thread running backwards from it is the printer itself and whoever operated it. Hamilton has not said whether a printer was found at the Kenilworth Avenue North address, and that silence is the largest single gap in the release. A recovered printed firearm tells you a gun existed. A recovered printer tells you a supply existed.

The Silencer Is the Detail That Should Not Be Skipped Past

Two Uzi-style firearms is a serious recovery on its own. The printed suppressor is a different kind of fact. A silencer is not defensive equipment and it is not a byproduct of a drug operation. It has one function, it is prohibited outright in Canada, and printing one requires a deliberate decision to fabricate a device whose only purpose is to reduce the noise a gun makes when it is fired at something.

Hamilton Police have not said whether the suppressor fit either of the recovered firearms, whether it had been used, or whether it was finished. Those are the questions that separate a curiosity from a capability, and none of them are answered in the release. What can be said is that the force listed three counts of possession of a prohibited weapon or device against each accused, and that the printed suppressor and the brass knuckles containing a spring-loaded knife are the obvious candidates for those counts.

Ten Grams, and Eleven Counts

The drug quantities here are small. Ten grams of fentanyl and ten grams of methamphetamine would not, by themselves, produce a release at four o’clock on a Friday afternoon. Files published on this beat this month have carried 833 grams of fentanyl out of a Niagara Falls hotel room and 750 grams out of a Kitchener house, and both of those figures dwarf what came off Kenilworth Avenue North.

What makes this file heavier than its weight is the ratio. Four separate substances were packaged for sale at a single residence — fentanyl, methamphetamine, hydromorphone and psilocybin — alongside scales, phones and cash, and behind all of it sat two submachine-gun-pattern firearms and a suppressor. That is not a stash. It is a small retail operation that had armed itself considerably beyond the scale of its own inventory, and the charge sheet reflects the weapons rather than the drugs.

The Two Counts Against Mitchell That Change the File

Both accused face identical firearms counts. Only Mitchell faces possession contrary to an order, twice, and failing to comply with probation, twice. In plain terms, the Crown alleges he was already prohibited by a court from having what officers say they found, and was already bound by probation when they found it.

That is the specific circumstance on which this file qualifies as organized-crime coverage without any force having said the word. It does not require a gang name and it does not require an inference. The allegation that a person was under a standing judicial order not to possess weapons, and was in a house containing two Uzi-style guns, a loaded magazine and a printed suppressor, stands on its own. None of it has been tested in court.

What Hamilton Has Withheld

No address on Kenilworth Avenue North. No total valuation of the drugs or the currency. No indication of which accused is alleged to have possessed which item, in a file where two people are charged identically over a shared residence. No named investigator; the release routes all inquiries to the Division Two Crime Manager and quotes nobody. No partner agency, which suggests a divisional file rather than a joint-forces project. No court date for either accused.

And no organization. The Hamilton Police Service has attached no gang, no club and no network to Brandon Mitchell, Joelene Keogh or the house on Kenilworth Avenue North, and this briefing attaches none either. This is the second firearms file the force has published in three days, after five guns came off a Mud Street East property on August 25 in an unrelated shots-fired investigation, and the two are not connected in any release.