Sûreté du Québec Says It Is Carrying Out Drug Trafficking Arrests and Searches in the Gaspésie Areas of New-Richmond, Cascapédia-Saint-Jules and Gesgapegiag and in Campbellton, in an Operation of Nearly 50 Officers Stemming From an Investigation Begun in January 2026 (October 28, 2026)

The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) said on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, that it is carrying out arrests and searches in connection with drug trafficking in the areas of New-Richmond, Cascapédia-Saint-Jules, Gesgapegiag and Campbellton, New Brunswick. The SQ says the operation stems from an investigation begun in January 2026 and involves nearly fifty officers, and it names the RCMP and a national organized-crime enforcement team based in Montréal among the units taking part. The SQ release does not give the number of people arrested, any names, charges or seizures.

Legal status: Arrests and searches under way; no charges have been reported. Anyone arrested is presumed innocent.

What the Sûreté du Québec Says

The SQ’s release, titled “Arrestations liées au trafic de stupéfiants en Gaspésie et au Nouveau-Brunswick,” is dated October 28, 2026. It says SQ officers, together with members of other units, are currently carrying out arrests and searches in the areas of New-Richmond, Cascapédia-Saint-Jules, Gesgapegiag and Campbellton. The release says the operation stems from an investigation begun in January 2026 and mobilizes nearly fifty officers.

The units the release names alongside SQ officers are the Groupe tactique d’intervention, the Service d’identité judiciaire, the Équipe des enquêtes sur les crimes majeurs in Chandler, the Division des enquêtes sur les crimes majeurs in Rimouski, MRC investigation units for Avignon, Matapédia, Bonaventure, Rocher-Percé and Haute-Gaspésie, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the Équipe nationale de répression sur le crime organisé in Montréal, and a police dog handler. The SQ invites anyone with information on drug trafficking to contact its Centrale de l’information criminelle confidentially at 1-800-659-4264.

What Local Outlets Add

CIEU-FM, the Baie-des-Chaleurs radio station, reports that the SQ and the RCMP were making arrests and searches in the four areas and that the Gesgapegiag police force also took part. CIEU-FM reports Gesgapegiag police chief Marven Condo as saying that all the arrests planned in the community had been carried out. CIEU-FM also reports that the search for evidence was continuing and that the SQ communications service was to release a summary later that day or the next.

TVA CIMT-CHAU, in an article published at 8:36 a.m. on October 28 and modified at 12:32 p.m., lists New Carlisle among the places where large operations were under way, a location the SQ release does not name. CIMT-CHAU says the SQ indicated that a summary would be communicated later. CHNC FM reports that the SQ plans a summary once the information from the police work has been gathered.

Anyone arrested is presumed innocent, and no charge has been reported or tested in court. The allegations are those of the Sûreté du Québec, as published in its October 28, 2026 release and reported by CIEU-FM, TVA CIMT-CHAU and CHNC FM. No gang or criminal organization has been named in connection with this case.