Cannabis Contraband
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RCMP Say Alaaddin Koc, 56, of Windsor, Ontario Pleaded Guilty to Possession of Cannabis for the Purpose of Exportation and Received a One-Year Prison Sentence and a Lifetime Firearms Prohibition After the CBSA Seized Approximately 31 Kilograms of Cannabis From His Luggage at Vancouver International Airport (October 5, 2026)
The RCMP say Alaaddin Koc, 56, of Windsor, Ontario pleaded guilty to Possession of Cannabis for the Purpose of Exportation and received a one-year prison sentence and a lifetime firearms prohibition. The CBSA seized approximately 31 kilograms of cannabis from his luggage at Vancouver International Airport in 2024.
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Ninety-Five Kilograms Were Going Out of the Country, Not Into It, and the RCMP Will Not Say What Any of the Four Men Did for a Living: Border Integrity Charges Anoshan Alfred, Jeffrey Woolcock, Jermaine Thompson and Renaldo Clarke Over Pearson (September 25, 2026)
Published Friday, September 25, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern by the RCMP Central Region under a Mississauga dateline. A months-long joint investigation by the RCMP, Peel Regional Police and the Canada Border Services Agency has produced 95 kilograms of seized cannabis and four arrests. Anoshan Alfred, 33, of Alliston, Jeffrey Woolcock, 40, of North York,…
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The Figure Is Precise to the Dollar and Almost Nothing Else Is: Correctional Service Canada Says $1,161,500 in Contraband Was Seized at Springhill Institution on Monday, and Will Not Say How It Got In (September 23, 2026)
First reported Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 10:06 a.m. Eastern by CTV Atlantic. Correctional Service Canada says packages containing contraband and unauthorized items were seized at Springhill Institution, a medium-security federal prison in Nova Scotia, on Monday, September 21, 2026. The seized items reportedly included methamphetamine, shatter, cannabis, hashish, tobacco and cellphones. CSC puts the…
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Fifteen Days Between the Warrants and the Announcement, $366,000 in Seized Value of Which Only $24,000 Was Cash, and Not One Weight Anywhere: the OPP’s Cannabis Enforcement Team Names Four Men Over a Windsor Operation Called “420 Highway” (September 17, 2026)
The Ontario Provincial Police announced on Thursday, September 17, 2026 that its Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team, working with the Essex County OPP Community Street Crime Unit and the Windsor Police Service, executed three search warrants on September 2 at two Windsor residences and a storage facility, dismantling what it describes as an illegal…
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Nearly a Tonne of Cannabis Moving British Columbia to Ontario, Stopped Over a Vehicle Equipment Defect, and the Only Criminal Code Count Is Proceeds Under Five Thousand Dollars: Saskatchewan RCMP Charge Istvan Mikula, 56 (Originally Reported September 14, 2026)
Published Monday, September 14, 2026 by the Saskatchewan RCMP and not a story that broke today. On September 4, 2026 at approximately 12:30 p.m., officers of the Saskatchewan RCMP Roving Traffic Unit conducting safety patrols on Highway 1 near Maple Creek stopped an eastbound vehicle for a violation of the Saskatchewan Vehicle Equipment Regulations. Officers…
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Three Firearms, Seven Thousand Ecstasy Tablets and Two Hundred Thousand Dollars Came Out of a File the Sûreté du Québec Called a Cannabis Operation, and Still Nobody Has Been Named (September 16, 2026)
Follow-up. The Sûreté du Québec published the promised summary of its September 16, 2026 contraband searches on the afternoon of the same day. The Service des enquêtes sur la contrebande reports seizing more than 15 kilograms of cannabis, more than 150 cannabis plants, more than 2,000 methamphetamine tablets, more than 7,000 ecstasy tablets, more than…
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Seven of the Eight Live in Scarborough, Two Hundred and Twenty Kilometres From the Field They Are Charged Over, and Not One of Them Faces a Criminal Code Count: the OPP’s Organized Crime Bureau Calls It a Criminal Network and Lays Cannabis Act Charges (September 16, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2026 by the Ontario Provincial Police and the Tyendinaga Police Service, seven days after the search. In August 2026 the Tyendinaga Police Service opened an investigation into an illicit cannabis production site on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory that it describes as involving a non-Indigenous criminal network, and asked the OPP Provincial Joint…
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The Sûreté du Québec Announced the Raid While the Doors Were Still Being Opened: Fifty Officers Across Five Municipalities, a Warehouse, and an Alleged Scheme Built on Medical Cannabis Certificates (September 16, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2026 by the Sûreté du Québec. Investigators from the Service des enquêtes sur la contrebande are carrying out searches in connection with cannabis smuggling and the fraudulent use of registration certificates for the personal production of cannabis for medical purposes. The operation is taking place in residences, vehicles and a warehouse…
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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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A Closure Order Is a Locked Door, Not a Finished File: Niagara Police Went Back to the Welland Storefront After a Break-In and Arrested the Same Man Again, With Another Nineteen Thousand in Tobacco and Hallucinogens (Originally Reported September 4, 2026)
This file was reported on Friday, September 4, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. The OPP-led Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team and the Niagara Regional Police Service have closed two unauthorized storefronts in Niagara and laid charges against two people across three search warrants in June, July and August 2026. Police…