Auto Theft
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Winnipeg Police Charge Man, 35, With 30 Offences Over Commercial Break-Ins
Winnipeg police say Aaron Mathew Richard, 35, has been charged with 30 offences related to commercial break-ins and the theft of vehicles. The force lists eleven incidents at dealerships, autobody shops and other locations reported between September 11 and October 17, and says eight vehicles were stolen in total.
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Peel Regional Police Say the Central Robbery Bureau Arrested 10 People and Laid 128 Charges in Connection With 21 Incidents in Project High Guard, a Carjacking and Vehicle Theft Investigation, and That 15 Stolen Vehicles Worth About $1.4 Million Were Recovered and Four Illegal Firearms, Ammunition and Magazines Were Seized (October 18, 2026)
Peel Regional Police say the Central Robbery Bureau arrested 10 people and laid 128 charges over 21 incidents in Project High Guard, a carjacking and vehicle theft investigation, recovered 15 stolen vehicles worth about $1.4 million and seized four illegal firearms. The attached charge sheet lists the 10 accused.
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Ten Stolen Re-Vinned Vehicles Worth Three Quarters of a Million Dollars, and Not One of the Nine Counts Alleges Anybody Stole a Car: Peel Police Charge Four People With Fraud and Forged Documents in Project Octane, Launched in May 2026 (October 1, 2026)
Peel police say Project Octane recovered 10 stolen re-vinned vehicles worth an estimated $750,000 and uncovered a vehicle registration fraud scheme tied to more than $100,000 in unpaid 407 ETR tolls. Four people from Caledon, Brampton, Milton and Toronto face nine counts between them.
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A Hundred and Seventy Charges Against Nine People, Not One of Whom Is Named, and Somewhere in the List Are Firearms Offences the Release Never Explains: Ottawa Police Say Crews Were Planting Trackers on SUVs in Driveways Before Stealing Them (September 15, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern by the Ottawa Police Service, East District. The Ottawa Police Service has laid 170 criminal charges following two investigations into organized vehicle theft activity in the city’s east end, conducted over several months by the East Neighbourhood Resource Team. Investigators say the thefts focused primarily on…
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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 Thirteen-Year-Old Is on the Charge Sheet and Not One of the Nineteen Counts Is a Weapons Offence: York Regional Police Close Project Howler on Four Toronto Boys Linked to More Than Fifty Break-Ins (September 8, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 10:19 a.m. EDT by York Regional Police. The force’s Hold-Up Unit has charged four Toronto youths and recovered seven stolen vehicles in an investigation it calls Project Howler. Investigators say the file began after dozens of incidents in which suspects entered homes to steal keys for luxury vehicles parked…
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A Commercial Unit, a Shipping Container and Six Cars From Two Provinces: the Sûreté du Québec’s Integrated Export Squad Searches Avenue Lépine in Dorval, Names Eight Partner Forces, and Arrests Nobody (August 28, 2026)
The Surete du Quebec published this file on Friday, August 28, 2026. The Equipe integree d’enquete sur l’exportation de vehicules voles, which the SQ coordinates, executed a search on avenue Lepine in Dorval on Thursday, August 27 in relation to what the force calls a structured vehicle theft network operating in Quebec, whose stolen vehicles…
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Three Arsons, One Business, Eight Days: York Regional Police Publish a Serial Firebombing File Out of a Richmond Hill Plaza in Which Every Vehicle Used Was Stolen and Nobody Has Been Charged (August 27, 2026)
York Regional Police published this file on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 12:39 p.m. The #2 District Criminal Investigations Bureau is appealing for witnesses after three arsons at the same commercial business at a plaza in the area of Leslie Street and East Wilmot Street in Richmond Hill. On August 19 at about 5:15 a.m.…
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A Loaded AR-15 at the End of a Foot Chase, Then Seven Master Keys and Two Programming Devices Out of a Nearby House: Toronto Police Charge Eight, Half of Them Youths, After a Sunday Night Arrest Near Dundas and Sumach (August 26, 2026)
First reported on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 by CP24 at 8:58 a.m. and by The Canadian Press via CHCH at 9:53 a.m. The Toronto Police Service has published no release on this file. Officers from 31 Division moved to arrest a wanted man near Dundas Street East and Sumach Street at about 10:30 p.m. on…
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A Man Asleep at the Wheel of a Stolen Car, Then the Cruiser He Hit Getting Out: London Police Charge Robert Roth, 42, After Finding 204 Grams of Crystal Meth and 12 Grams of Fentanyl (Reported August 21, 2026)
First reported Friday, August 21, 2026, on an arrest made a week earlier. London Police Service Uniformed Division officers responded on August 13, 2026 to a concerned-citizen call about an unconscious man behind the wheel near Arbour Glen Crescent and Kipps Lane in the city’s north end. Police say the man woke, struck a police…