One Man Was Caught With the Gun and Three Other People Ended Up With Four Trafficking Counts Each: Peel Publishes the Hurontario and Dundas Firearm Arrest Fifteen Days Late, With $65,000 in Cocaine and Fentanyl and No Weight Attached to Either (Originally Reported September 22, 2026)

Originally reported Tuesday, September 22, 2026 by Peel Regional Police under occurrence PR26030473 and news release 26-175. The call that started this file came in fifteen days earlier, on Monday, September 7, 2026, and what the force has published since is a single firearm, an unweighed quantity of cocaine and fentanyl valued at $65,000, and four accused whose charge sheets have almost nothing in common.

The street stop

On September 7, police were called to the area of Hurontario Street and Dundas Street West in Mississauga for reports of a man with a gun in a vehicle. Officers located the suspect and say he was found in possession of an illegal firearm and a separate magazine containing ammunition. Police also seized a quantity of suspected cocaine and fentanyl with an estimated value of $65,000.

The warrant that followed

The release says that following further investigation and the execution of a search warrant at a Mississauga residence, three additional individuals were arrested. It does not say what, if anything, was seized at that residence — the $65,000 figure is attached to the street stop, not to the warrant — and it does not give the address or the date the warrant was executed.

What the release leaves out

No weight is given for the cocaine or the fentanyl, and the two are not broken out from each other — the $65,000 is a single combined figure covering both substances. The firearm is not described by type, make or calibre, and the force does not say whether it was restricted or prohibited. The phrase “unloaded together with ammunition readily accessible” appearing as a count tells the reader the gun was not loaded at the moment of seizure and that ammunition was within reach; the separate magazine is mentioned but not described. No custody status is published for any of the four, and no court date appears. No officer is named or quoted. No criminal organization, street gang or outlaw motorcycle club is named anywhere in the release.

Three of the four accused carry an identical count — four counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking each — without the release identifying which substances, or which quantities, those counts attach to. Two of the accused share a surname; the release does not state any relationship between them, and none should be inferred.

None of these charges has been tested in court.