Firearms Seized
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An SKS Rifle, a Shotgun and Three More Guns Off One Property: Hamilton Police Seize Five Firearms After a Sunday Evening Shots-Fired Call on Mud Street East and Release Everyone They Arrested (Reported August 25, 2026)
Hamilton Police published this file at 7:13 a.m. on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, two days after the incident. On Sunday, August 23, 2026 at approximately 6:36 p.m., officers responded to a shots fired call at an address on Mud Street East. Several individuals were seen fleeing the area on foot. Police secured the scene and…
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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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A Damaged Car Driving Erratically, an Officer’s Shot, and a Handgun With a Drum Magazine on the Pavement: A 26-Year-Old Man Is Killed at Wilson and King High and the SIU Takes Over (Originally Reported August 22, 2026)
This file was first reported on Saturday, August 22, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. Toronto police were called at 1:24 p.m. that afternoon to Wilson Avenue and King High Avenue in North York, east of Allen Road, for a damaged vehicle driving erratically after a collision. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit says…
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A Man Asleep at the Wheel of a Stolen Car, Then the Cruiser He Hit Getting Out: London Police Charge Robert Roth, 42, After Finding 204 Grams of Crystal Meth and 12 Grams of Fentanyl (Reported August 21, 2026)
First reported Friday, August 21, 2026, on an arrest made a week earlier. London Police Service Uniformed Division officers responded on August 13, 2026 to a concerned-citizen call about an unconscious man behind the wheel near Arbour Glen Crescent and Kipps Lane in the city’s north end. Police say the man woke, struck a police…
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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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An Off-Duty Officer, a Car That Rolled Into a Fence, and a Rifle in the Cabin: London Police Charge James Beretta, 29, With Seven Counts After Finding a Driver Unconscious With 254 Grams of Cocaine (Reported August 21, 2026)
First reported Friday, August 21, 2026, on an arrest made the evening of Thursday, August 20. An off-duty London Police Service officer noticed a vehicle stopped on Florence Street near Kellogg Lane in the city’s east end at about 8 p.m.; as he approached, the vehicle began moving and struck a nearby fence. The driver…
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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…
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The 112th Crime Gun of the Year Came Out of a Car on Cedarbrook Road: Peel Police Charge Three Men After a 2:20 a.m. Brampton Traffic Stop, One of Them Wanted in Alberta (August 22, 2026)
Peel Regional Police announced Saturday that 21 Division investigators seized a loaded illegal handgun with a tampered serial number during an August 10 traffic stop near Cedarbrook Road and Edgewater Court in Brampton, bringing the force’s crime-gun count for 2026 to 112. Officers found three occupants in the vehicle; one gave a false name and…
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Spotted by Officers Working Something Else: A Loaded Restricted Firearm on Rideau Street at 2 a.m. and a Man Already Under a Firearms Prohibition (August 21, 2026)
Ottawa police officers who were in the ByWard Market for an unrelated investigation spotted a man holding a gun and making what police describe as concerning statements just before 2 a.m. Friday, on Rideau Street near Cumberland Street. The man tried to flee and was arrested. The firearm was recovered and nobody was injured. Police…
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Four Months and Five Guns Later: Peel Police Charge Five — Including Two 17-Year-Olds — in the Brampton Schoolyard Double Homicide (August 17, 2026)
Peel Regional Police announced Monday that three adults and two youths have been arrested and charged over the April 3 shooting that killed two males on school grounds near Rutherford Road and Kennedy Road in Brampton. Jahnoi Bell, 21, and one 17-year-old each face two counts of first-degree murder; the second 17-year-old faces two murder…