Cocaine
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Twenty-Three People Were Standing Inside the Two Houses and Not One Charge Has Been Published: Chilliwack RCMP Take Three Drugs and a Firearm Off Victor Street, and the Enforcement That Actually Landed Came From the Bylaw Office (September 25, 2026)
First reported Friday, September 25, 2026 at 9:42 a.m. Pacific by Jordan Riley of the Chilliwack Progress, carried the same day by the Agassiz-Harrison Observer and the Hope Standard, with the RCMP E Division release appearing on the national feed at 12:03 p.m. On September 17, 2026 the Chilliwack RCMP Crime Reduction Unit executed search…
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The Warrant on Ogden Street Produced Four Grams; the Man Arrested Afterwards Was Carrying Twenty-Five Times That and a Loaded Gun He Was Already Barred From Having: Thunder Bay Police Charge Boiyce Niemi, Chris Morin and William Godick (September 25, 2026)
First reported Friday, September 25, 2026 at 12:03 p.m. Eastern by James Murray of NetNewsLedger, and carried the same day at 12:20 p.m. Eastern by CTV News Northern Ontario. The Thunder Bay Police Service says its Intelligence Unit opened a drug trafficking investigation in September. On September 23, 2026 officers from the Emergency Task Unit,…
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An Organized Crime Bureau, a Street Crime Unit and a Detachment All Put Their Name on Two and a Half Grams: the OPP Charge Payton Roy, 21, of Kenora, and the Most Telling Thing Seized Was Paperwork (September 24, 2026)
First reported Thursday, September 24, 2026 by NetNewsLedger and carried the same day at 4:40 p.m. EDT by Dan Bertrand of CTV News Northern Ontario. The Ontario Provincial Police say a drug trafficking investigation by the Kenora OPP detachment, the Kenora Community Street Crime Unit and the Kenora Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau led to an…
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Three Doors, One Arrest, and a Quantity the Force Says It Has Not Finished Counting: Thompson RCMP Charge Alexis Halvorsen, 37, Six Days After the Warrants and Publish No Weight at All (Originally Reported September 23, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 4:10 p.m. Central by the Manitoba RCMP. This is not a story that broke today. Thompson RCMP General Investigative Services and the Manitoba RCMP North District Crime Reduction Enforcement Support Team executed search warrants at three residences in Thompson, Manitoba on September 17, 2026. Alexis Halvorsen, 37, was arrested…
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Thirty-Four Kilograms Came Out of a Rental Car on a Traffic Stop, the Dog That Found It Belonged to Another Force, and Only One Count Has Been Laid: Manitoba RCMP Charge Gurinder Singh, 33, of Calgary Near Portage la Prairie (September 24, 2026)
Published Thursday, September 24, 2026 by the Manitoba RCMP. On September 23, 2026 at approximately 12:40 p.m., RCMP Traffic Services stopped a rented vehicle near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. A police service dog from the Manitoba First Nations Police Service gave an alert during the stop, and a subsequent search produced approximately 34 kilograms of…
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Three Doors Went In on September 18 and the Force Waited Six Days to Say So: Ottawa’s Organized Crime Unit Pulls Sixteen Kilograms of Cocaine Out of Riverside South and Nepean and Will Not Name One of the Five People It Arrested (September 24, 2026)
Published Thursday, September 24, 2026 at 11:15 a.m. Eastern by the Ottawa Police Service. Members of the Organized Crime Unit and the Tactical Unit executed three Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrants on September 18, 2026 at two locations in Riverside South and one in Nepean. Seized: more than 16 kilograms of cocaine, approximately…
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The Gun Was Fake, the Customers Were People Living in a Tent Encampment, and the Only Quantity Published Is the Word Several: the SPVM Names Clement Christian Masse, 23, and Says More Arrests Are Coming (Originally Reported September 23, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 23, 2026 by the Service de police de la Ville de Montreal. This is not a story that broke today. The SPVM says it arrested a man the previous day, September 22, 2026, alleged to be linked to a drug trafficking network operating principally in the borough of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and targeting vulnerable…
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The Biggest Cocaine Seizure in the Force’s History Was Found by T-Shirt Wholesalers, Not Police, and Vancouver Police Have Published No Release About It: 328 Kilograms in Fourteen Duffle Bags, Sixty-Three Days After the Call (Originally Reported September 22, 2026)
First reported Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 10:26 p.m. Eastern by The Canadian Press. The Vancouver Police Department says it has made the largest single cocaine seizure in its history, totalling more than 328 kilograms. Staff at a local company opened a shipping container on July 21, 2026 and found fourteen duffle bags of cocaine…
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The Searches Were Done in March and April and the Arrests Waited Until September: the Estrie Mixed Regional Squad Names Eight People Over an Organization It Says Controlled the Cocaine Trade in Magog, and Four Walk Out the Same Day (September 22, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 22, 2026 by the Surete du Quebec. Officers of the Escouade regionale mixte de l’Estrie arrested eight people that day in an investigation opened in October 2025 into an organization the SQ says controlled the cocaine trade in Magog. Three phases of searches were carried out in Waterloo, Bolton-Est, Magog and Sherbrooke…
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Twenty-Three Guns Came Out of an Undercover Operation and Thirty-Seven of the Trafficking Counts Landed on Two People: Peel Ties a Recovered Firearm to a March 2024 Mississauga Homicide and Names No Organization At All (Originally Reported September 22, 2026)
Originally reported Tuesday, September 22, 2026 by Peel Regional Police. The Specialized Enforcement Bureau, working with the United States Department of Homeland Security and Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario, ran an undercover operation called Project Red Zone from October 2025 to July 2026 against a firearm trafficking network operating across the Greater Toronto Area. Police seized…