Cocaine
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A Twenty-Year-Old From Cambridge Was Stopped in Hong Kong With Twenty-Five Kilos in Her Checked Bags: Eleven Months Later Waterloo Police Charge a 24-Year-Old Man With Exporting It, and Will Not Name Him (Originally Reported August 27, 2026)
This file was first published by the Waterloo Regional Police Service on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 12:07 p.m. and is not a story that broke today. In September 2025 the service’s Drugs and Firearms Unit opened an investigation into the alleged trafficking of cocaine from Canada to Hong Kong, after a 20-year-old woman from…
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A Speeding Toyota Corolla on Thorold Stone Road at Twenty Past One in the Morning and a Replica Glock in the Cabin: Niagara Police Charge Noah Mandula, 18, of Welland With Four Selling Counts Across Four Drugs — Then Release Him on an Undertaking (Originally Reported August 25, 2026)
This file was first published by the Niagara Regional Police Service on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. At approximately 1:20 a.m. that morning, 2 District (Niagara Falls / Niagara-on-the-Lake) uniform officers on proactive patrol on Thorold Stone Road in Niagara Falls observed a Toyota Corolla travelling at a…
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Half a Kilo of Cocaine, a 9 mm Handgun and Roughly a Thousand Prescription Pills Out of One Car on Boulevard Cartier: the Sûreté du Québec Publishes a Rivière-du-Loup Impaired-Driving Stop Two Days On, and Names Neither Accused (August 27, 2026)
The Surete du Quebec published this file on Thursday, August 27, 2026, two days after the stop. On Tuesday, August 25, officers of the MRC de Riviere-du-Loup post, working with the Division des enquetes sur les crimes majeurs, intercepted a vehicle on boulevard Cartier in Riviere-du-Loup at around 10:30 p.m. on an impaired-driving call. A…
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Nine Accused, Seven Incident Numbers and Three Suspects Who Drove In From Burlington and Ancaster: Niagara’s 1 District CORE Unit Publishes the Results of Its ‘Street to Source’ Initiative in Downtown St. Catharines (August 26, 2026)
Niagara Regional Police published this file on Wednesday, August 26, 2026. In July 2026 the 1 District CORE Unit, working with the 1 District Street Crime Unit, began an initiative called Street to Source aimed at individuals trafficking narcotics to vulnerable populations in downtown St. Catharines. The force states that the concurrent Open-Air Drug Use…
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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…
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Arrested for Trafficking, Charged With Possession: Ottawa Police Seize Crack and Meth on George Street and Lay Lesser Counts Than the Arrest Called For (Reported August 25, 2026)
Ottawa Police disclosed on August 25 that a proactive enforcement push in the George and Cumberland street area of the ByWard Market on August 21 produced two arrests for possession for the purpose of trafficking, with crack cocaine and methamphetamine seized. The charges actually laid against the 24-year-old woman and 26-year-old man are simple possession…
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Fifteen Counts, Nine Counts and Nineteen Counts Out of a Single Bowmanville House: Durham’s Drug Enforcement Unit and the Provincial Cannabis Team Charge Dennis Grant, 46, Ashley Oswald, 40, and Jennifer Thomsen, 57 (August 25, 2026)
Durham Regional Police published this file on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, four days after the warrant. On Friday, August 21, 2026, members of the Drug Enforcement Unit, assisted by the Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team, concluded a drug trafficking investigation and executed a search warrant at a residence in Bowmanville. Officers seized a large…
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Five Hundred and Sixty Grams of Cocaine and a Loaded Magazine With No Gun Beside It: Durham’s Drug Enforcement Unit Closes an Ajax Warrant and Charges A’Yaan Sheikh, 20, With Three Counts (August 25, 2026)
Durham Regional Police published this file on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, the same day the warrant was executed. Members of the Drug Enforcement Unit concluded an investigation and searched a residence in Ajax. Several persons and a quantity of drugs were located inside. Officers seized more than 560 grams of cocaine, a quantity of oxycodone,…
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Two Houses and Two Businesses on the Same Day: The Waterloo Drugs and Firearms Unit Charges Three Kitchener Men, 30, 34 and 39, After Warrants Turn Up a Gun, Cocaine and Two Prohibited Weapons (Originally Reported August 21, 2026)
This file was first reported by the Waterloo Regional Police Service on Friday, August 21, 2026 at 2:36 p.m. and is not a story that broke today. On Thursday, August 20, the service’s Drugs and Firearms Unit executed search warrants at two residences and two commercial businesses in Kitchener as part of an ongoing investigation…
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Forty-Seven Grams of Cocaine, a Stolen Vehicle and a Prohibited Weapon Off Santos Drive: Six Nations Police Close Project Flight With Two Men Charged, One of Them Named as Alex Townsend, 25 (Originally Reported August 21, 2026)
This file was first reported on Friday, August 21, 2026 by The Turtle Island News, and written up again on Sunday, August 23, 2026 by the Simcoe Reformer. It is not a story that broke today. The Six Nations Police drug enforcement unit ran a drug trafficking investigation it named Project Flight and concluded it…