Firearms Seized
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Printed Frames and Parts in a Trailer at Lacolle, Three Prohibited Firearms and a Charge of Lying About It: the CBSA Puts the Seizure on Social Media and Names Nobody (September 3, 2026)
Reported Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 1:50 p.m. EDT by CTV News Montreal, in a piece by Joe Lofaro. The Canada Border Services Agency says its officers stopped a traveller at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle port of entry on August 26, 2026 who was allegedly transporting 3D-printed firearm frames and parts, along with prohibited weapons and devices,…
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Two Networks That Did Not Work Together, One Investigation That Took Both: the OPP Guns and Gangs Team Puts 64 Charges on Seven People Across Brantford, Paris, London and Oneida Nation of the Thames (Originally Reported August 31, 2026)
This file was published by the Ontario Provincial Police on Monday, August 31, 2026 and is not a story that broke today; CTV News Kitchener carried it the same afternoon at 3:22 p.m. and other outlets were still picking it up on September 2. The OPP-led Provincial Guns and Gangs Enforcement Team began an intelligence-led…
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Seven Counts Off One Stop, and the Last of Them Is Failing to Comply With a Release Order: Toronto’s Public Safety Response Team Charges Audric Salau, 18, With Carrying a Loaded Prohibited Firearm Near Dixon and Kipling (September 1, 2026)
The Toronto Police Service published this file on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at 9:43 p.m. under case 2026-1824714. Officers with the Public Safety Response Team were in the Dixon Road and Kipling Avenue area of north Etobicoke on Monday, August 31, 2026 at approximately 7 p.m. working an unrelated investigation when, the force alleges, they…
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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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Half a Kilo of Cocaine, a 9 mm Handgun and Roughly a Thousand Prescription Pills Out of One Car on Boulevard Cartier: the Sûreté du Québec Publishes a Rivière-du-Loup Impaired-Driving Stop Two Days On, and Names Neither Accused (August 27, 2026)
The Surete du Quebec published this file on Thursday, August 27, 2026, two days after the stop. On Tuesday, August 25, officers of the MRC de Riviere-du-Loup post, working with the Division des enquetes sur les crimes majeurs, intercepted a vehicle on boulevard Cartier in Riviere-du-Loup at around 10:30 p.m. on an impaired-driving call. A…
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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…
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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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A Loaded AR-15 at the End of a Foot Chase, Then Seven Master Keys and Two Programming Devices Out of a Nearby House: Toronto Police Charge Eight, Half of Them Youths, After a Sunday Night Arrest Near Dundas and Sumach (August 26, 2026)
First reported on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 by CP24 at 8:58 a.m. and by The Canadian Press via CHCH at 9:53 a.m. The Toronto Police Service has published no release on this file. Officers from 31 Division moved to arrest a wanted man near Dundas Street East and Sumach Street at about 10:30 p.m. on…