Cocaine
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Two and a Half Kilos of Cocaine, Two Kilos of Methamphetamine and Twenty-Two Hundred Dollars: Regina’s Street Gang Unit Takes Three Addresses in One Morning and Charges James Thomas, 36, Levi Roche, 32, and Evan Davies, 35 (Originally Reported September 2, 2026)
This file was published by the Regina Police Service on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. The RPS Street Gang Unit, assisted by the Robbery Unit, the Regina Intelligence Unit and SWAT, executed three search warrants under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act on Monday, August 31, 2026 at…
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Ten People Arrested Off Four Streets in a Single Day, and the Only Handgun in the Inventory Was a Replica: Ottawa Police Put 27 Criminal Code Charges on a Centretown Sweep Run by Six Units at Once (Originally Reported September 2, 2026)
This operation was carried out on Tuesday, September 2, 2026 and published by the Ottawa Police Service on Friday, September 4, 2026 at 1 p.m. It is not a story that broke today. Officers from the Centretown Neighbourhood Resource Team, the Market Neighbourhood Resource Team, the CORE Unit, the Community Police Unit and the Drug…
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Twelve Counts of Holding a Gun He Was Banned From Holding, and the Gun Was Loaded When They Found It: Windsor’s Drugs and Guns Unit Charges Isiah Stephens-Scott, 23, and Puts a Warrant Out for a Second (September 4, 2026)
Windsor Police published this file on Friday, September 4, 2026 under case 26-98838. In August 2026 the Windsor Police Drugs and Guns Enforcement Unit began investigating an individual suspected of trafficking illegal drugs and obtained a search warrant for a residence in the 100 block of Montrose Street and an associated vehicle. Shortly before 9…
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Eight Warrants Across Two Towns and a GPS Tracker in the Evidence List: Lanark OPP Charge Two Ottawa Men After a Fourteen-Month Investigation Reaches Kanata (September 3, 2026)
A drug trafficking investigation that began in June 2025 ended in eight search warrants across Carleton Place and Kanata, with two Ottawa men now facing nine charges between them after police seized cocaine, suspected opioids, methamphetamine, and more than eighteen thousand dollars in cash.
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She Told Him to Meet Her So She Could Buy Cocaine, and She Brought Three Men With Her: Danika Lawrie, 33, Is Sentenced to Thirty-Nine Months for Delivering Jesse Deschamps to the Men Who Shot Him (September 2, 2026)
Reported Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 10:03 a.m. EDT by CTV News Barrie, in a piece by Mike Arsalides. Danika Lawrie, 33, of Penetanguishene has been sentenced to 39 months, of which she will serve a further 18 months in custody, after pleading guilty last month to being an accessory after the fact to the…
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A Kilo of Cocaine Behind One Door in Thorold and Forty-Eight Thousand in Cash Behind Another in Welland: Niagara’s 1 District Street Crime Unit Charges Ismail Ahmed, 30, of Mississauga and Chantal Fournier, 35, of Welland (September 2, 2026)
The Niagara Regional Police Service published this file on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 under incident 26-110488. In July 2026 detectives with the 1 District Street Crime Unit, covering St. Catharines and Thorold, opened a drug investigation into a man selling suspected cocaine in St. Catharines. On September 1, 2026 detectives obtained judicial authorization to enter…
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Two Networks That Did Not Work Together, One Investigation That Took Both: the OPP Guns and Gangs Team Puts 64 Charges on Seven People Across Brantford, Paris, London and Oneida Nation of the Thames (Originally Reported August 31, 2026)
This file was published by the Ontario Provincial Police on Monday, August 31, 2026 and is not a story that broke today; CTV News Kitchener carried it the same afternoon at 3:22 p.m. and other outlets were still picking it up on September 2. The OPP-led Provincial Guns and Gangs Enforcement Team began an intelligence-led…
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Twenty Kilos Out of Four Addresses and a Ring Leader Named in the Release: Niagara’s Major Drugs and Gang Unit Charges Five, and the Sixth — Matthew Russell, Wanted on Nine Counts Including a Loaded Gun — Has Been Outstanding Since June (August 31, 2026)
The Niagara Regional Police Service republished its region-wide drug trafficking file as Update 1 on Monday, August 31, 2026, to say that one accused remains outstanding more than two months after the takedown. Matthew Russell, 33, of Thorold is wanted on nine counts, five of them firearms offences including possession of a loaded regulated firearm…
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Six Prohibited Weapons, Sixty Grams of Cocaine and Thirteen Thousand Dollars Off Two Streets in Sept-Îles: the Mixed Squad Arrests Four in What the Sûreté du Québec Calls an Organized Crime File, Then Releases Every One of Them (August 28, 2026)
First reported Friday, August 28, 2026 at 10:39 a.m. by Le Nord-Cotier, in a piece by Emy-Jane Dery, with Ma Cote-Nord carrying the same file at 10:33 a.m. Investigators from the Equipe mixte de Sept-Iles, assisted by the Equipe des enquetes sur les crimes majeurs and Sept-Rivieres patrol officers, carried out three searches on Thursday,…
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Ninety Thousand Methamphetamine Tablets, a Firearm and Sixteen Thousand Dollars Out of Two Houses on the Same Street: Longueuil’s Organized Crime Squad Arrests Sébastien Bernatchez, 40, and Marielle Bernatchez, 60, and Publishes Not One Charge (August 28, 2026)
First reported Friday, August 28, 2026 at 2:08 p.m. by FM 103,3, with the full seizure inventory published at 3:05 p.m. by Le Courrier du sud, in a piece by Sylvain Daignault filed under the Initiative de journalisme local. The Service de police de l’agglomeration de Longueuil says its Section lutte au crime organise –…