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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Décarie Boulevard Firebombing Strike: SPVM Arson Squad Opens Criminal Investigation Into Fire at Kosher Restaurant Nöam
SPVM Section des incendies criminels launches a criminal arson investigation after a suspect ignited a two-alarm fire inside kosher restaurant Nöam on Décarie Boulevard in Montreal.
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Décarie Boulevard Firebombing Strike: SPVM Arson Squad Opens Criminal Investigation Into Fire at Kosher Restaurant Nöam
SPVM Section des incendies criminels launches a criminal arson investigation after a suspect ignited a two-alarm fire inside kosher restaurant Nöam on Décarie Boulevard in Montreal.
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Mississauga Commercial Unit Stabbing: Peel Police Hunt Gregory Darling Following Dixie Road Stabbing Attack
Peel Regional Police 12 Division CIB launches a manhunt for 34-year-old Gregory Darling of Brampton, wanted in a pre-dawn stabbing at a commercial unit near Dixie Road and Aimoco Boulevard in Mississauga.
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Villeray Commercial Firebombing: SPVM Arson Squad Hunts Suspect After Jean-Talon East Building Ignited
SPVM Section des incendies criminels investigates a pre-dawn arson attack targeting a mixed commercial-residential building on Jean-Talon Street East in Montreal.
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Scarborough Parking Lot Ambush: 42 Division Launches Hunt for Gunman After Woman Shot Near Morningside and Sheppard
Toronto Police 42 Division and Gun & Gang units investigate an overnight shooting in a Scarborough parking lot near Morningside and Sheppard avenues that left a woman hospitalized.
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Pearson Airport Takedown: Peel Police Capture UK Fugitive Raheem Hartley Following Transnational Flight in Armed Commercial Carjacking
Peel Regional Police Central Robbery Bureau arrests 24-year-old UK fugitive Raheem Hartley at Toronto Pearson Airport as he returned to Canada on an international flight following a 2025 armed carjacking in Mississauga.
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Pickering Casino Execution Break: Durham Police Charge 20-Year-Old With Second-Degree Murder in Guard Slaying
Durham Regional Police extradite a 20-year-old suspect from Saskatchewan, charging him with second-degree murder for the fatal 2023 shooting of security guard Michael Ferdinand at Pickering Casino Resort.
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Overnight Montreal Residential Strikes: SPVM Major Crimes Investigates Coordinated Shots Fired in CDN-NDG and Pierrefonds
SPVM Major Crimes and K9 units investigate after two separate residential homes were targeted by overnight gunfire in Montreal’s Pierrefonds-Roxboro and CDN-NDG boroughs.
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Laval Firebombing Cell Shattered: Joint SPL-SPVM Task Force Indicts Simon Hudon and Ayoub-Éliasse Saad in Sainte-Dorothée Home Attack
Laval Police and SPVM arrest Simon Hudon (42) and Ayoub-Éliasse Saad (23) for an arson attack on a family home in Sainte-Dorothée that left one suspect severely burned.
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Mississauga Hotel Gunpoint Ambush: Peel Police Capture Final Fugitives in Targeted Derry Road Robbery Docket
Peel Regional Police 12 Division CIB captures final fugitives Latef Tag El Din and Kimberly MacIntyre, closing a multi-month investigation into a gunpoint hotel robbery on Derry Road in Mississauga.