Firearm Seizure
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Niagara Regional Police Charge Patrick Gagnon, 49, of Niagara Falls With Six Counts After a Discarded Glock Handgun Loaded With 15 Rounds Is Seized on Ferry Street and a Starter Revolver Is Seized Inside a Residence in the Lundy’s Lane and Drummond Road Area (October 4, 2026)
Niagara police say officers who responded to an unknown 911 call on Ferry Street in Niagara Falls on June 14 seized a discarded Glock handgun loaded with 15 rounds. Patrick Gagnon, 49, is charged with six counts after a later residence search in which a starter revolver was seized. He remains in custody.
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Peel Police Say a 9mm Handgun and a Sawed-Off Rifle Were Found at an Accused’s Residence Three Days After a Brampton Traffic Stop: Navjot Singh, 29, of Innisfail, Alberta Now Faces 14 Charges (October 2, 2026)
Peel police say investigators who attended the residence of one of the accused from an August 10 Brampton traffic stop found a 9 mm handgun, a sawed-off rifle and ammunition there on August 13. Navjot Singh, 29, of Innisfail, Alberta now faces 14 charges in all. Police published the second seizure on October 2.
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Eight of the Eleven Counts Arise From One Published Firearm, and the Other Three Allege He Was Already Bound by Release Orders, With Police Saying He Was on Conditions Not to Possess Weapons and to Stay in His Residence at All Times: the Durham Gun and Gang Unit Charges Isaiah Annis, 22, and Ajonnah-Destiny Collins-Obrien, 19, at Dundas and Garden in Whitby (October 1, 2026)
Durham police say a search of two suspects arrested in Whitby on September 30 located a loaded firearm with a prohibited over-capacity magazine. Isaiah Annis, 22, and Ajonnah-Destiny Collins-Obrien, 19, face eleven counts between them, and police say Annis was already on conditions not to possess weapons.
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The Guns Were Reported Stolen to One Detachment, the Car to a Second, and Both Men in It Were Already Bound by Release Orders: Scott Taylor, 37, and Rudy Contois, 26, Are Stopped on Highway 6 Four Days Before Anybody Is Told (September 27, 2026)
Released Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 10:37 a.m. Eastern by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Manitoba, four days after the incident of Sunday, September 27, 2026. At 3:30 p.m. that day Lundar RCMP received a report of a suspicious vehicle on Chartrand Road in St Laurent, Manitoba, responded immediately, and located the vehicle travelling north…
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Eight Days After the Sûreté du Québec Carried the Guns Out of It, Somebody Threw Molotov Cocktails at the Same House on Rue des Sous-Bois — and the Man Charged in the Raid Was in a Cell When It Burned (Originally Reported September 17, 2026)
Le Soleil reported on Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 9:45 a.m. that Molotov cocktails were thrown at a house on rue des Sous-Bois in Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier overnight Wednesday to Thursday. An occupant was alerted in time and was not injured, and firefighters contained the fire before it did serious damage. The Sûreté du Québec reports no…
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Three Men, One Surname, Thirty-Three Years Between the Youngest and the Oldest: York Regional Police Take a Semi-Automatic Rifle and $25,000 in Cocaine Out of a Newmarket House and Publish Not a Single Weight (September 15, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 15, 2026 by York Regional Police under case number 26-313394, media release officer Constable Kevin Nebrija. Investigators with the York Regional Police #1 District Criminal Investigations Bureau began an investigation in early September 2026 after receiving information that an individual was trafficking controlled substances in the Newmarket area. On September 12, 2026…
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Three of the Four Are Sixteen, the Stop Was for a Highway Traffic Act Violation, and the Charge Sheet Went Out Twenty-Six Hours After the Bail Hearing: Toronto Police Take a Loaded Regulated Firearm Out of a Car at Finch and Yorkgate at Half Past Four in the Morning (September 15, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 4:17 p.m. Eastern by the Toronto Police Service under case number 2026-1932898, 31 Division. On Monday, September 14, 2026, at approximately 4:30 a.m., 31 Division officers on general patrol in the Finch Avenue West and Yorkgate Boulevard area stopped a vehicle for a Highway Traffic Act violation. Police allege…
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The Ninth Count Against the Seventeen-Year-Old Is Possession of a Firearm Stolen Outside of Canada: a Test Ride on a Marketplace E-Bike Near Jane and Wilson Puts a Loaded Prohibited Handgun in Toronto Police Hands (September 10, 2026)
Published Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 3:45 p.m. by the Toronto Police Service, 31 Division, case number 2026-1892288. On Tuesday, September 8, 2026 police responded to a theft-just-occurred call in the Jane Street and Wilson Avenue area after a seller who had agreed to meet a buyer in a public location to sell an e-bike…
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Seventy-Two Long Guns and a Crate of Ammunition Came Out of One Traffic Stop, and Three Weeks Later the Only Thing Published Is a Photograph: Cold Lake RCMP Name Nobody and List No Charge (September 7, 2026)
Reported Monday, September 7, 2026 at 2:47 p.m. EDT by Hannah Kavanagh of CTV News Edmonton. RCMP in Cold Lake, Alberta seized 72 long-barrel firearms and a crate of ammunition during a traffic stop in the city in the middle of August 2026. The photograph carried with the report is credited to the RCMP. Beyond…
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Jane & Finch Slip-Up: Wanted Target Seized with Loaded Handgun After Requesting Change from Police Cruiser
In a stunning lapse of operational security, a wanted 20-year-old suspect approached a marked Toronto police cruiser to ask for change, leading to his arrest and the seizure of a loaded handgun and a vehicle master key.