Drug Trafficking
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More Than a Kilogram of Cocaine Came Out of a Car Stopped at Five Past Two in the Morning, and the Only Person Charged With It Was Already Out on Release Conditions: Suzie McKenzie, 36, Faces Three Counts While the Two People Arrested With Her Were Taken on Other Forces’ Warrants (October 1, 2026)
Released Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 11:51 a.m. Eastern by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Saskatchewan, five days after the incident. More than one kilogram of suspected cocaine, cash and drug trafficking paraphernalia came out of a traffic stop at Stanley Mission, Saskatchewan, at approximately 2:05 a.m. on Saturday, September 26, 2026. Three people were…
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Fifty-One Thousand Methamphetamine Tablets, Seven Long Guns and a Handgun Out of Five Doors in Trois-Rivières, and the Sûreté du Québec Will Not Name a Single Charge: Three Men Arrested, Arraigned and Detained All on the Same Day (October 1, 2026)
Published Thursday, October 1, 2026 by the Sûreté du Québec. Investigators of the escouade régionale mixte Mauricie carried out an operation the same day in relation to drug trafficking in Trois-Rivières, searching five premises — three residences and two warehouses — on boulevard des Chenaux, rue Lanouette, rue Notre-Dame and boulevard Saint-Maurice. Seized were more…
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The Organized Crime Unit Ran It, Not One of the Seven Counts Is a Criminal Organization Offence, and the Man Was Apprehended on the Twenty-Second and Then Arrested Again on the Twenty-Fifth: Winnipeg Police Publish $33,900 Real, $13,000 Counterfeit and No Name (September 30, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 9:11 a.m. Central by the Winnipeg Police Service under file R26-50466. The Organized Crime Unit opened an illicit drug trafficking investigation in September 2026 targeting a residence in the 300 block of Stradbrook Avenue in Winnipeg. On September 22, 2026 officers from the Organized Crime Unit, the Tactical Support…
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Eleven Thousand Methamphetamine Tablets and Half a Kilo of Cocaine Came Out of Two Addresses and a Vehicle in Gatineau and Nobody Was Arrested: the Sûreté du Québec Seizes a Toyota Tundra, Quotes Its Own Mixed Squad, and Has Published No Release At All (September 30, 2026)
First reported Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 11:33 a.m. Eastern by Charles-Antoine Gagnon of Le Droit, updated at 11:47 a.m. Officers of the Surete du Quebec, working with the Service de police de la Ville de Gatineau and Securite publique de la MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais, carried out three drug trafficking searches on Wednesday morning in…
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Six Years and Three Months, and Not One Other Outlet Has the Story: Vincent Benoit Is Sentenced Over the Daily Drug Deliveries in Boucherville and Longueuil, and the Man Called the Organization’s Other Leader Is in a Mexican Cell Awaiting Extradition (September 29, 2026)
First reported Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 5:09 p.m. Eastern by Yvon Moreau of FM 103,3 in Longueuil, and reported nowhere else. Vincent Benoit, described by the station as a trusted operative of the organization, has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison. The report says the investigation established that in addition…
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The Release Existed After All and It Was Filed Under Federal Policing Eastern Region: the RCMP Document on Project Chrome Names Its Own Money Laundering Team, Dates the Searches to March 2024, and Still Will Not Name the Organization (September 29, 2026)
Follow-up to this site’s September 29, 2026 briefing on Project Chrome, which recorded that no RCMP release page on the file could be located. The release exists. It is published by RCMP Federal Policing Eastern Region at rcmp.ca/en/news/2026/09/4357357 and dated September 29, 2026, and it closes four of the gaps that briefing left open. The…
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Four Years, a Hundred Bank Accounts and Forty-Five Thousand Transactions to Reach Sixteen People and Fourteen Kilos: the RCMP Charges Franco Lopez, 61, as the Alleged Head of Project Chrome, and the Sixteenth Accused Is Already Out of the Country (September 29, 2026)
First reported Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 8:15 a.m. Eastern by Noovo Info, carried by Global News at 12:25 p.m. and by Narcity Montreal at 2:46 p.m. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has charged sixteen people in a cocaine trafficking and money laundering investigation called Project Chrome, opened in 2022. Fifteen were expected at the…
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The Murder Charge Is the Shortest Line on the Sheet: York Regional Police Charge Daniel Fearon, 40, and Sherrie Donovan, 41, Over a Man Killed in a Vaughan Industrial Unit in August 2025, and the Search That Followed Was in Niagara, a Hundred Kilometres Away (September 29, 2026)
Deuvane Donald Francis, 41, of Toronto was found dead inside a unit of a commercial property near Langstaff Road and Jane Street in Vaughan at about 2:36 p.m. on August 27, 2025, with obvious signs of trauma; CP24 reports he died of gunshot wounds. The Office of the Chief Coroner identified him on August 28,…
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Four of the Twenty-Six Counts Are for Having a Gun Each Was Already Barred From Touching, and the Stolen Property Ran to Twenty-Five Milwaukee Tools and Two Portable Grills: North Bay Police Charge Jacob Tyler Burns, 41, and Sky Depencier, 25, After an Assault Call (September 28, 2026)
Published Monday, September 28, 2026 by the North Bay Police Service under the headline “Assault Investigation Leads to Seizure of Drugs, Loaded Handgun and Stolen Property,” and carried the same day at 3:01 p.m. Eastern by Rick Wyman of CTV News Northern Ontario, updated at 5:01 p.m. The service says its investigation began on September…
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Three Women, One Charge Each and Not a Gram Published: Swan River’s General Investigation Section Takes a Door on 1st Street North, and the RCMP Says It Cannot Name Anyone Because the Charges Have Not Been Sworn Yet (September 28, 2026)
Published Monday, September 28, 2026 by the Manitoba RCMP. On September 24, 2026 at approximately 5:40 p.m. the Swan River General Investigation Section, assisted by Swan River RCMP, executed a search warrant at a residence in the 1200-block of 1st Street North in Swan River, Manitoba, in connection with a drug trafficking investigation. Officers seized…