CBSA
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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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A Conspiracy Count With Nobody on the Other End of It: the CBSA Charges Frank Charette, 60, of Cottam With Manufacturing Prohibited Firearms and Publishes the Seventy-One-Day Gap Between the Warrants and the Announcement (September 24, 2026)
Published Thursday, September 24, 2026 at 11:15 a.m. Eastern by the Canada Border Services Agency under a Windsor dateline. The CBSA says Frank Charette, 60, of Cottam, Ontario has been charged with ten offences following an investigation by the Ontario Firearms Smuggling Enforcement Team. Search warrants executed in Essex County on July 15, 2026 produced…
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Eighty Bricks in One Truck, a Hundred and Seven in the Next, and Fifty-One Days Before Anybody Was Told: the CBSA Puts 215.5 Kilograms of Cocaine on the Table at Coutts and Names Not One Person Arrested (September 15, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 15, 2026 by the Canada Border Services Agency from Calgary, Alberta. CBSA officers at the Coutts port of entry in southern Alberta seized a combined 215.5 kilograms of suspected cocaine from two United States-inbound commercial trucks in July 2026. On July 26, 2026 a commercial truck referred to a secondary examination was…
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Four Men Are Named and the Organization They Are Said to Have Belonged To Is Not: the CBSA Reports 111 Removals Against 188 Orders in Its Extortion Program, and One of the Four Acknowledged the Pattern (September 14, 2026)
Published Monday, September 14, 2026 by the Canada Border Services Agency from Ottawa, and reported the same day at 1:02 p.m. Eastern by Todd Coyne of CTV News Vancouver. The CBSA says that as of September 3, 2026, 188 removal orders had been issued and 111 individuals removed from Canada under a program targeting foreign…
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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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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…
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Thirty Tonnes of Loose-Leaf Off One Bridge in Six Days, and the Agency Says the Money Was Going to Organized Crime: the CBSA Puts $13.8 Million on Southern Ontario’s August Tobacco Ledger (September 4, 2026)
Reported Friday, September 4, 2026 at 10:28 a.m. EDT by CTV News London, in a piece by Kristylee Varley. The Canada Border Services Agency says officers at land ports of entry across southern Ontario seized more than $13.8 million worth of illicit tobacco and nicotine products in August 2026, most of it in large commercial…
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Printed Frames and Parts in a Trailer at Lacolle, Three Prohibited Firearms and a Charge of Lying About It: the CBSA Puts the Seizure on Social Media and Names Nobody (September 3, 2026)
Reported Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 1:50 p.m. EDT by CTV News Montreal, in a piece by Joe Lofaro. The Canada Border Services Agency says its officers stopped a traveller at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle port of entry on August 26, 2026 who was allegedly transporting 3D-printed firearm frames and parts, along with prohibited weapons and devices,…
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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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Two Air Canada Ground Workers, 62.5 Kilos of Cocaine Out of Punta Cana, and Not One Charge Laid: the RCMP Searches Two Homes and a Dorval Work Base, Then Releases Both Suspects the Same Day (August 26, 2026)
The RCMP announced on the morning of Wednesday, August 26, 2026 that two Air Canada ground operations employees have been arrested over an alleged conspiracy to move luggage through secure areas of Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to facilitate the importation of cocaine and the exportation of cannabis. Search warrants were executed the same morning…