Contraband Tobacco
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Four Ontario Men Face 36 Charges in Cross-Border Tobacco Smuggling Case
The RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency say four Ontario men face 36 charges over an alleged cross-border tobacco smuggling operation. The release alleges nearly 116,000 kilograms of tobacco was illegally transported into Canada from October 2020 to April 2024. Charges were laid September 21.
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Ottawa Police Charge Man After 54,000+ Cigarettes Seized on Bank Street
Ottawa police say more than 54,000 cigarettes, 52 vaping devices and more than 4,800 nicotine pouches were seized from a business on Bank Street. Melchisedekson Fresnel, 35, is charged with three Criminal Code counts; a second man, not charged, is wanted. Details were published October 26.
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Ottawa Police Say a 32-Year-Old Ottawa Woman Is Charged Under the Cannabis Control Act With Selling and Possessing Illicit Cannabis and Under the Criminal Code With Selling Unpackaged and Unstamped Tobacco and Possession of Proceeds of Crime After the Central District Neighbourhood Resource Team Executes a Search Warrant at a Cannabis and Nicotine Retail Establishment in the 300 Block of Catherine Street and Seizes 72,720 Cigarettes and About 13 Kilograms of Cannabis Flower (October 20, 2026)
Ottawa police say a search warrant at a cannabis and nicotine retail establishment in the 300 block of Catherine Street produced 72,720 cigarettes and about 13 kilograms of cannabis flower. A 32-year-old Ottawa woman faces charges under the Cannabis Control Act and the Criminal Code. Police published the details on October 20.
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The Sûreté du Québec Says Its MRC de Joliette Officers, Working With the DECCO Rive-Nord and DEILTA Units, Searched a Joliette Residence on October 8 and Arrested Two Men Aged 36 and 26, and That 3D-Printed Components It Says Could Possibly Be Used to Make a Firearm, Four Weapons of Various Types, More Than 5.5 Kilograms of Cannabis and More Than $11,700 in Counterfeit Money Were Seized (October 20, 2026)
The Sûreté du Québec says two men, aged 36 and 26, were arrested and released after a search of a Joliette residence on October 8. It lists 3D-printed components that could possibly be used to make a firearm, four weapons of various types and counterfeit money.
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Nathan Settee, 37, and Hunter Milan, 20, Are Charged With Eleven Counts Between Them by a Tally of the Listed Charges After Powerview RCMP and the Manitoba Integrated Law Enforcement Team Search a Fort Alexander Home and Seize 288 Grams of Cocaine, 165 Grams of Crack Cocaine and $16,000 in Cash (October 16, 2026)
Manitoba RCMP say Powerview RCMP and members of the Manitoba Integrated Law Enforcement Team searched a Fort Alexander home on October 12 and seized about 288 grams of cocaine, 165 grams of crack cocaine, $16,000 in cash, brass knuckles and unstamped cigarettes. Nathan Settee, 37, and Hunter Milan, 20, face eleven counts between them by…
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Thirty-Three Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Four Cigarettes and Five Hundred and Twenty-Eight Tins of Nicotine Pouches Came Out of One Business in the 600 Block of Somerset Street West, and the Force Says the Investigation Has Concluded: Ottawa Police Charge a 44-Year-Old Man With Two Counts and Name Him Nowhere (October 2, 2026)
Ottawa police say a search warrant at a business in the 600 block of Somerset Street West produced 33,894 cigarettes, 528 tins of nicotine pouches, 47 vape devices and about $4,000. A 44-year-old Ottawa man faces two counts and has not been named. The force says the investigation has concluded.
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Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Cigarettes Came Out of One Vehicle and the Stop Was Not Made by Police: the Northumberland OPP Charge Kevon Beckford, 47, of North York Four Days Later and Publish No Dollar Value At All (September 25, 2026)
Seizure made Monday, September 21, 2026; first reported Friday, September 25, 2026 at 2:35 p.m. Eastern by Zach McGibbon of Quinte News, carried the same day by Today’s Northumberland, Kawartha 411, Brighton Today and InQuinte, and by CP24 on Saturday, September 26 at 8:43 a.m. Eastern. At approximately 2 p.m. on September 21, 2026 Northumberland…
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Thirty-Six Counts, Four Men and Three Weeks of Silence: the RCMP’s Money Laundering Team Takes $3 Million in Contraband Tobacco Out of Calgary and Airdrie and Names No Organization Behind Any of It (September 24, 2026)
Published Thursday, September 24, 2026 by the RCMP. The Federal Policing Northwest Region’s Integrated Money Laundering Investigative Team says an investigation into an illegal tobacco trafficking ring operating in Calgary and Airdrie, Alberta has produced four arrests and 36 charges. Jonathan Patrick Roach, 42, of Calgary faces 10 charges and was arrested on September 3,…
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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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Four Searches, Three of Them Inside Vehicles, and the Only Thing Anyone Will Face Is a Tax Statute: the Sûreté du Québec’s Contraband Investigations Service Pulls 233,000 Cigarettes and 150 Litres of Alcohol Out of Québec City and Names Neither Man (September 23, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 23, 2026 by the Sûreté du Québec. The force’s Service des enquêtes sur la contrebande carried out a tobacco contraband operation the previous day, September 22, 2026, executing four searches, three of them inside vehicles, and detaining two people living in Québec City and Shannon. The two are men aged 39 and…