A Hundred and Twenty-Three Grams of Fentanyl, the Packaging to Break It Down and the Scale to Weigh It: Windsor Police Charge Three Men Off One House on Longfellow Avenue and Will Not Name a Single One of Them (August 29, 2026)

WINDSOR — The Windsor Police Service took a house in the 3500 block of Longfellow Avenue on Wednesday night and came out with 123 grams of suspected fentanyl, the packaging materials to break it down, a digital scale to weigh it, and cellphones. Three men were arrested at the address, aged 27, 31 and 38. All three are charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking fentanyl. The force has named none of them.

The file was published on Saturday, August 29, 2026 and reported at 9:18 a.m. EDT by CTV News Windsor, in a piece by Dustin Coffman, sourced entirely to the Windsor Police Service. It is the fourth day in a row this beat has carried a Windsor file. No criminal organization has been named.

One Hundred and Twenty-Three Grams Is Not a Personal Quantity

Fentanyl is measured on this beat in units that would look absurd applied to any other drug. A hundred and twenty-three grams is roughly a quarter of a pound. Broken into the two-milligram range at which the drug is retailed on the street, it represents a number of doses in the tens of thousands. The Windsor Police Service has attached no dollar figure to it, which is a departure from the practice of most Ontario forces, and the omission is worth noting because valuation is usually the first number a service reaches for.

What removes any ambiguity is what sat beside the drugs. Packaging materials and a digital scale are not consumption equipment. They are the tools required to divide a bulk quantity into saleable units and to price each one. That is the difference between a seizure from a user and a seizure from a distribution point, and it is the reason all three men were charged with trafficking rather than possession.

The Three Extra Counts Against the 31-Year-Old

Two of the three accused face a single count each. The third, the 31-year-old, faces four: the trafficking count and three separate allegations of failing to comply with a release order.

In plain terms, the Crown alleges that at the moment officers came through the door, he was already bound by conditions a court had imposed on him in another matter, and was in breach of three of them. That is the specific circumstance on which this file qualifies for coverage here without any force having used the word gang. It requires no inference and no label. A man already under judicial conditions, in a house holding a quarter-pound of fentanyl and the equipment to sell it, is a fact the release states plainly. None of it has been tested in court.

Three Men, One House, No Names

The most conspicuous gap in this file is that three adults have been charged with a serious indictable offence and not one of them has been identified. Ontario services routinely withhold names when an information has not yet been sworn through the court process, and that is the likeliest explanation here, but the Windsor Police Service has not said so.

The absence matters for a practical reason. Without names there is no way to check any of the three against other files, and no way to know whether the 31-year-old’s outstanding release order arose from a matter this beat has already covered. Three men arrested together at a single address is the shape of a distribution crew rather than an individual dealer, and until the names surface that shape is all the public record supports.

What Windsor Has Withheld

No civic address. No time of entry. No occurrence number. No investigative unit — the account attributes everything to “the Windsor Police Service” without identifying whether this came from a drugs unit, a street crime unit or a divisional investigation. No officer is quoted. No dollar valuation. No cash seizure is mentioned, which is unusual alongside a scale and packaging. No firearms. No partner agency. No bail outcome and no court date.

And no organization. No force has attached a gang, a network or a supplier to the house on Longfellow Avenue or to any of the three accused, and this briefing attaches none either.