Drug Bust
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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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A Loaded Glock 36 in a Lundy’s Lane Hotel Room, Held by a Man Already Under a Weapons Prohibition: Niagara’s 2 District Street Crime Unit Charges Antonio Iuliani, 30, and Ashley Lepera, 34, With Fifteen Counts Over 833 Grams of Fentanyl (August 26, 2026)
Niagara Regional Police published this file on Wednesday, August 26, 2026. The 2 District Street Crime Unit began an investigation into drug trafficking in Niagara Falls in August 2026 after detectives observed a male suspect behaving in a manner consistent with trafficking. Detectives obtained a search warrant for a hotel room on Lundy’s Lane. On…
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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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Fifty Grams of Meth, a Homemade Taser and a Camper Trailer That Belonged to Somebody Else: The OPP’s East Region Street Crime Unit Closes a Harrowsmith Warrant With Timothy Reid, 38, Facing Eight Counts (August 24, 2026)
The Ontario Provincial Police published this file on Monday, August 24, 2026. A stolen-property investigation in South Frontenac Township that began earlier in the month was run by the OPP East Region Community Street Crime Unit and ended with a search warrant at a residence on Friday, August 21, 2026. Sergeant Erin Cranton, Media Services…
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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…
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A Welfare Check on a Hotel Room in London’s East End Turns Into 101 Grams of Fentanyl: Robert Degrace, 29, and Laurie Elizabeth Young, 37, Jointly Charged and Sent to Court on Separate Days (Reported August 20, 2026)
First reported by the London Police Service in a release dated August 19, 2026 and posted August 20, on an arrest made the previous day. Uniformed Division officers went to a hotel in London’s east end at approximately 12:40 p.m. on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, to check on the welfare of an occupant. Inside the…
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Four Guns, Two of Them Semi-Automatic, Out of Three Apartments in Hull: Gatineau Police Search One Unit on Rue Gamelin and Two on Rue Thomas-Kelly, and Three Men Are in Custody With No Charges Yet Filed (Reported August 20, 2026)
First reported Thursday, August 20, 2026, on searches carried out early the previous morning. The Service de police de la Ville de Gatineau executed warrants on August 19 at one apartment on rue Gamelin and two apartments on rue Thomas-Kelly in the Hull sector, and arrested three Gatineau men aged 41, 42 and 48. Investigators…
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Two Sixteen-Punch Tablet Presses on an Island You Cannot Drive To: The Sûreté du Québec Releases the Count From Its Methamphetamine Lab Takedown — 402,600 Tablets, 110 Kilos of Powder, and Four Men Released Pending Proceedings (Reported August 21, 2026)
First reported August 20-21, 2026, on an operation carried out August 14. Quebec’s Escouade nationale de repression du crime organise searched two residences, one on Rang St-Andre in Saint-Philippe in the Monteregie and one on chemin de la Chapelle on Ile Bouchard at Saint-Sulpice in Lanaudiere, an island in the Vercheres archipelago that cannot be…