Fentanyl
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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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They Took the Whole Boat, and What Came Out of It Was Suppressors in the Plural: Four People Arrested Aboard the Night Shadow in False Creek and, Two Days Later, Vancouver Police Have Charged Nobody (Originally Reported September 15, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 15, 2026 by the Vancouver Police Department. Police say the VPD Marine Squad and Emergency Response Team boarded the vessel Night Shadow, moored in False Creek, at about 6 p.m. on Sunday, September 13, 2026, following reports that someone aboard had allegedly fired a gun fitted with a suppressor into the water…
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Fifty Rifles in a Photograph on a Phone, and a Signal Thread Talking Prices: the Crown Finally Explains in a Kelowna Bail Hearing Why Trail RCMP Shut Highway 3B for a Day in June 2025, and It Started With a Man Running Through Snow (September 12, 2026)
Reported Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 4:00 a.m. PT by Nicholas Johansen of Castanet, Story 631005. At a September 9 bail hearing in Kelowna Provincial Court, Crown prosecutor David Peltier disclosed for the first time that the June 26, 2025 Trail and Castlegar RCMP raid on a Highway 3B property west of Warfield, B.C., grew…
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Seven Firearms, $16,000 in Cash and Not One Weight in the Whole Inventory: B.C.’s Anti-Gang Agency Spends Two Weeks in Fort St. John, Arrests “Multiple Individuals,” and Names Neither Them Nor the Gang Conflict It Went There to Break (September 11, 2026)
Published Friday, September 11, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia. At the request of Fort St. John RCMP, CFSEU-BC deployed its Uniform Gang Enforcement Team to the northeastern B.C. city from August 21 to September 5, 2026, following what the agency describes as an increase in…
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Two Replica Firearms, Four Drugs and Not One Weight in the Whole File: the Haldimand/Norfolk OPP Charge Gwendolyn Northrup, 32, James Dawley, 39, and Mark Daniel, 58, Eight Days After a 5:30 a.m. Warrant on Stanley Street in Simcoe (Reported September 9-10, 2026)
The Haldimand/Norfolk OPP Community Street Crime Unit executed a search warrant shortly before 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at a property on Stanley Street in Simcoe, in Norfolk County, and arrested three people without incident inside a residence on the property. Officers seized suspected fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine and MDMA, two replica firearms,…
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Nearly Half a Kilogram of Fentanyl Came Out of a Car Parked at a Highway Rest Stop, and the Man Who Was Driving It Has Been Released Without a Charge: the Sûreté du Québec Names Nobody at Notre-Dame-du-Nord (September 8, 2026)
Reported Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 5:10 p.m. by Mon Abitibi, the Arsenal Media regional outlet in Rouyn-Noranda. Surete du Quebec officers intercepted a vehicle parked at the halte routiere de Notre-Dame-du-Nord, in the Temiscamingue MRC of Abitibi-Temiscamingue, and arrested the driver, a 56-year-old man from Bearn, for impaired operation by drug. Officers then obtained…
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Fifty-Four Kilograms of Fentanyl, Eighty-Nine Guns and Exactly One Name on the Indictment: Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa Pleads Guilty and the Falkland Superlab File Still Has Only One Accused (Originally Reported September 4, 2026)
This file was reported by Global News on Friday, September 4, 2026 and is not a story that broke today; the guilty plea itself was entered in B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa has pleaded guilty to several drug trafficking and firearms charges arising from the October 2024 RCMP takedown…
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Two-Tenths of a Gram of Fentanyl and Eleven Thousand Three Hundred and Fifteen Dollars in Cash: North Bay Police Charge Nathaniel Ross Hughes, 43, With Four Counts of Breaching a Firearms Prohibition, Then Release Him on an Undertaking (Originally Reported September 3, 2026)
This file was published by the North Bay Police Service on Thursday, September 3, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. At approximately 9:30 a.m. on Monday, August 31, 2026, the NBPS Patrol Section stopped a vehicle in the area of Laurier Avenue and Fisher Street for failing to display two plates. Officers…
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Twelve Counts of Holding a Gun He Was Banned From Holding, and the Gun Was Loaded When They Found It: Windsor’s Drugs and Guns Unit Charges Isiah Stephens-Scott, 23, and Puts a Warrant Out for a Second (September 4, 2026)
Windsor Police published this file on Friday, September 4, 2026 under case 26-98838. In August 2026 the Windsor Police Drugs and Guns Enforcement Unit began investigating an individual suspected of trafficking illegal drugs and obtained a search warrant for a residence in the 100 block of Montrose Street and an associated vehicle. Shortly before 9…