Daily Briefing
Daily reporting on organized crime across Canada — arrests, police project takedowns, court proceedings, and the networks behind them. Briefings are compiled from police releases, court records, and public filings, and published the day the story breaks. Coverage runs from Mafia families and outlaw motorcycle clubs to street-level trafficking crews, across the GTA, Montreal, and British Columbia.
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The Fifteen-Year-Old Carries Ninety-Three of the Two Hundred and Twelve Counts, Two More Than Either Adult: Durham Police Close Project Magenta on Four Males and the Only Robbery Charge in the File Belongs to the Youngest (September 10, 2026)
Published Thursday, September 10, 2026 by Durham Regional Police. Project Magenta was launched by the West Division Criminal Investigations Branch after investigators linked a series of commercial break-and-enters, vehicle thefts, attempted vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and fraud-related offences across Durham Region and Toronto. Between June and September 2026 police allege the group was responsible…
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A Hundred and Fifty Grams of Cannabis, Five Thousand Dollars and a Handgun Out of One Storefront on Place Bourget: the Surete du Quebec Sends Its North Shore Organized Crime Division Into Downtown Joliette and Names Nobody (September 9, 2026)
The Surete du Quebec published this file on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, five days after the operation. On Friday, September 4, 2026 officers from the SQ post for the MRC de Joliette, working with the Division des enquetes et de la coordination sur le crime organise Rive-Nord, searched a business on Place Bourget Sud in…
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One Theft in Mississauga in June Turned Into Sixteen Theft Counts, Three Money-Laundering Charges and Two Men With the Same Name: Peel Police Charge Four From One Brampton House Near Mississauga and Mayfield (September 9, 2026)
Peel Regional Police published this file on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 under incident numbers PR268007867 and PR260243795, news release 26-157. Investigators from the 11 Division Criminal Investigation Bureau began with a reported theft at a business in the area of Clayhill Road and Dundas Street West in Mississauga on June 18, 2026, and connected it…
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Two Replica Firearms, Four Drugs and Not One Weight in the Whole File: the Haldimand/Norfolk OPP Charge Gwendolyn Northrup, 32, James Dawley, 39, and Mark Daniel, 58, Eight Days After a 5:30 a.m. Warrant on Stanley Street in Simcoe (Reported September 9-10, 2026)
The Haldimand/Norfolk OPP Community Street Crime Unit executed a search warrant shortly before 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at a property on Stanley Street in Simcoe, in Norfolk County, and arrested three people without incident inside a residence on the property. Officers seized suspected fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine and MDMA, two replica firearms,…
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Two Hundred and Fifty Blank Cards and Two Hundred and Fifty Holograms Came Off a Plane at Mirabel, and Twenty-Six Months Later a Man Who Allegedly Used Thirty False Identities Is in Court at Saint-Jérôme: the CBSA Charges Ahmad Jawid Toukhi (September 9, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 9, 2026 by the Canada Border Services Agency under a Saint-Jerome, Quebec dateline, and reported the same day at 2:04 p.m. by Karim Benessaieh of La Presse. Ahmad Jawid Toukhi, 40, appeared Wednesday at the Palais de justice de Saint-Jerome. The investigation began in March 2024 when a CBSA officer at Mirabel…
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He Filmed Himself Doing It, Which Is Why Laval Police Have Both a Video and No Name: the SPL Releases Footage of a Honda HR-V Being Doused and Set Alight at Voltaire and De Véronne in Chomedey (September 9, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 9, 2026 by the Service de police de Laval, and carried the same morning by La Presse at 10:47 a.m. and CTV News Montreal at 10:39 a.m. Laval police are asking the public to help identify a suspect recorded on video at approximately 6:15 a.m. on Sunday, August 2, 2026 at the…
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Six Years and Nine Months for a Man With No Record at All, Because One of the Three Counts Was Participating in a Criminal Organization: Brian Hamilton-Hyatt Is Sentenced in London Three Years After Project S.A.F.E. (Originally Reported September 8, 2026)
This file was reported on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 8:30 p.m. EDT by Nick Paparella of CTV News London and is not a story that broke today. Brian Hamilton-Hyatt, 41, has been sentenced to six years and nine months in a cross-border gun smuggling case. He pleaded guilty in April 2026 to three counts:…
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A Kilogram of Cocaine Stamped PO 10 515/P87, a Glock With Thirteen in a Fifteen-Round Magazine, and a Signal Group of Exactly Four: Frédéric Perreault Gets Three and a Half Years, and the Man the SPVM Antigang Was Actually Watching Is Still Before the Courts (Originally Reported September 8, 2026)
This file was reported on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 by Daniel Renaud of La Presse’s investigations team and is not a story that broke today. Frederic Perreault, 29, was sentenced Friday to three and a half years after pleading guilty to possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and possession of a…
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He Fired at the Back of the House at Twenty Past Six in the Morning and Left on an E-Scooter Across a Golf Course, and the Weapons Call Did Not Come In Until After Half Past Eleven: York Regional Police Release Three Photographs From Angus Glen (September 9, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 9:50 a.m. EDT by York Regional Police and updated at 11:25 a.m. Investigators with the YRP Firearms Investigations Team are seeking the public’s help identifying a suspect in a shooting in the City of Markham. Police responded to a weapons call shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 15,…
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The Border Agency Called the Guns and Gangs Unit, Not the Other Way Around: Durham Police Charge Jason Birarda, 40, of Brock After Two Rifles Come Out of a Beaverton House and He Turns Out to Hold No Licence at All (September 9, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 9, 2026 by Durham Regional Police. The DRPS Guns and Gangs Unit began an investigation in August 2026 after the Canada Border Services Agency advised the service that a man was importing unregulated firearm parts from the United States. On Tuesday, September 1, 2026 investigators executed a search warrant at a residence…