Drug Bust
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The Lab Came Down in July 2024 and the Charges Landed Twenty-Six Months Later, and Health Canada Put the Machine at Forty-Five Million Tablets: the RCMP Charge Six Over Two Nitazene Pill Plants in Drummondville and Sherbrooke (September 16, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2026 by RCMP Federal Policing, Eastern Region, from Sherbrooke, Quebec. Two separate investigations produced charges against six people over counterfeit pharmaceutical tablets containing nitazenes, a family of synthetic opioids. A Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit investigation into a clandestine laboratory dismantled in a Drummondville residence in July 2024 produced charges against…
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Two Community Street Crime Units From Two Counties and an Emergency Response Team Went Through Two Doors at Twenty-Six Minutes Past Four in the Morning, and the File Contains No Weight at All: the OPP Charge a 39-Year-Old Already Bound by a Release Order in Leamington (Originally Reported September 10, 2026)
This file was reported on Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 4:34 p.m. by windsoriteDOTca News and carried on Friday, September 11 at 6:43 a.m. by AM 800 CKLW, both from an Ontario Provincial Police media release. At approximately 4:26 a.m. on Thursday, September 10, 2026, members of the Essex County and Lambton County OPP Community…
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Three Firearms, a Set of Brass Knuckles and Ammunition in Several Calibres Came Out of the House, and the Only Charges Contemplated Are Drug Charges: the Surete du Quebec Empties a Rue de la Derive Address in Havre-Saint-Pierre and Lets the Man Go the Same Day (Originally Reported September 10, 2026)
Reported Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 6:03 p.m. by Jean St-Pierre of Ma Cote-Nord, and carried the same evening by Le Manic. Officers of the Surete du Quebec post for the MRC de Minganie, assisted by investigators from the Sept-Iles-Uashat joint team, executed a search warrant at a residence on rue de la Derive in…
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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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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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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 –…
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Two Uzi-Style Guns Out of an East Hamilton House, One of Them Printed, and a Printed Silencer to Screw Onto It: Hamilton Police Charge Brandon Mitchell, 41, and Joelene Keogh, 43, With Eleven Counts Each Over Ten Grams of Fentanyl (August 28, 2026)
Hamilton Police published this file on Friday, August 28, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. An investigation opened earlier this year into suspected drug trafficking from a residence on Kenilworth Avenue North in east Hamilton produced a search warrant executed at the address on August 27, 2026 and two arrests made without incident. Officers seized approximately 10…
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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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Project Firebird: A Stolen Handgun, a Drum Magazine and 750 Grams of Fentanyl Out of a House Near Ira Needles Boulevard — and One of the Two People Waterloo Police Charged Is Seventeen (August 26, 2026)
Waterloo Regional Police published this file on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:48 p.m. In the summer of 2026 the service’s Drugs and Firearms Unit opened an investigation into drug and firearms offences and named it Project Firebird. On August 26 investigators executed a search warrant at a residence in the area of Ira Needles…