Two and a Half Kilos of Cocaine, Two Kilos of Methamphetamine and Twenty-Two Hundred Dollars: Regina’s Street Gang Unit Takes Three Addresses in One Morning and Charges James Thomas, 36, Levi Roche, 32, and Evan Davies, 35 (Originally Reported September 2, 2026)
REGINA — This file was published on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. Three search warrants went in across Regina on the morning of Monday, August 31, and what came out of them was four and a half kilograms of hard drugs, an unidentified quantity of pills, and $2,200 in cash. The unit that ran it was the Regina Police Service Street Gang Unit.
The cash figure is the part that does not sit comfortably beside the rest. Four and a half kilograms of cocaine and methamphetamine is a supply-tier quantity. Twenty-two hundred dollars is a day’s float.
What the Regina Police Service Has Put on the Record
- When: Monday, August 31, 2026. Published Wednesday, September 2, 2026.
- Where: three addresses — one on Sangster Boulevard, one in the 700 block of Argyle Street North, one in the 100 block of Markwell Drive.
- Who ran it: the RPS Street Gang Unit, assisted by the Robbery Unit, the Regina Intelligence Unit and SWAT.
- Legal basis: three search warrants issued under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
- Seized: approximately 2,500 grams of cocaine; approximately 2,000 grams of methamphetamine; a large quantity of pills of unknown composition; approximately $2,200 in cash.
- Value: approximately $200,000, stated by the force as a total across the seizure.
- James Thomas, 36: possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking; possession of proceeds of crime under $5,000.
- Levi Roche, 32: possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
- Evan Davies, 35: possession of methamphetamine for the purpose of trafficking; trafficking cocaine.
- Court: all three appeared in Regina Provincial Court on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
- What is absent: no occurrence number, no identification of the pills, no breakdown of which drugs came out of which address, no statement of which accused was arrested where, no residence given for any accused, and no criminal organization.
The Unit Name Is the Story
The Regina Police Service did not route this file through a general drug section. It routed it through the Street Gang Unit, and brought the Regina Intelligence Unit and SWAT along for the entries.
That composition is what puts this briefing on the beat. A force does not assign its gang unit and its intelligence unit to a file it regards as freelance retail dealing. But naming the unit is not the same as naming an organization, and the Regina Police Service has done the first and not the second. No gang, syndicate or club is identified anywhere in this release, and none is identified here.
SWAT on the door means the warrants were assessed as carrying risk. The release does not say whether any firearm was found, and no weapons charge appears against any of the three accused — which is worth stating plainly, because a tactical entry with no gun in the seizure list is a fact about the file, not a gap in it.
Three Charge Sheets, Three Different Shapes
The three accused are not charged alike, and the differences are informative.
Thomas carries the only proceeds count, laid at the under-$5,000 threshold — which is the force treating the $2,200 as his. Roche carries a single count and nothing else. Davies is the only one facing a methamphetamine count, and the only one facing a trafficking charge rather than a possession-for-the-purpose charge.
That last distinction matters. Possession for the purpose of trafficking alleges an intention inferred from quantity and packaging. Trafficking alleges the transaction itself. The Regina Police Service does not explain what evidence separates the Davies count from the other two, and this briefing does not speculate.
None of the three is given a residence or a municipality. None of the three has had an allegation tested in court.
Two Kilos of Meth, and Pills Nobody Has Named Yet
The unidentified pills are the loose end. Regina police describe a large quantity and stop there, which means the substance has gone for analysis and the force is not guessing ahead of the lab. That is the correct order of operations and it is also why no charge in this file attaches to them.
The $200,000 valuation covers the whole seizure. Split across 2,500 grams of cocaine and 2,000 grams of methamphetamine, that is a wholesale-tier figure rather than a street-price extrapolation, and the force does not break it down by substance.
The release also situates this seizure alongside two other recent Regina files: charges laid on August 17, 2026 in what the force describes as its first fentanyl production case, and a seizure on August 27, 2026 of approximately 3.5 kilograms of fentanyl from a suspect from Alberta. Those are separate files with separate accused. They are recorded here because the Regina Police Service chose to publish them together, not because any connection between them has been alleged.
Regina Police Service — Street Gang Unit Three-Warrant File
Primary Wire Sources
- Regina Police Service: “Police Operation Results in Drug Seizure and Charges”, published Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Every name, age, address, quantity, valuation, unit and count above was confirmed on that page.
- The figure of four and a half kilograms in the lead is arithmetic on the two quantities the release supplies — approximately 2,500 g of cocaine and approximately 2,000 g of methamphetamine — and is not a figure the Regina Police Service states.
- The distinction drawn between possession for the purpose of trafficking and trafficking is general reference to the structure of the offences. It is not an explanation offered by the Regina Police Service, which does not say what evidence separates the counts.
- The August 17 and August 27, 2026 files referenced in the closing section are separate matters with separate accused, published in the same release by the Regina Police Service. No connection between them and this seizure has been alleged by the force.
- No criminal organization has been named by the Regina Police Service in this file, and none is named in this briefing. None of these allegations has been tested in court.