Niagara Falls
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Niagara Regional Police Charge Anthony Cristobal, 30, With Seven Counts by a Tally of the Listed Charges, Including Six Counts of Possess Schedule 1 Substance for Trafficking, After 2 District Street Crime Unit and Opioid Enforcement and Education Unit Detectives Search a Residence in the Zimmerman Avenue and Queen Street Area of Niagara Falls and a Vehicle and Seize 811.3 Grams of Suspected Methamphetamine, 710.1 Grams of Suspected Cocaine and 540.9 Grams of Suspected Fentanyl (October 22, 2026)
Niagara Regional Police say a search of a residence and a vehicle in Niagara Falls resulted in the seizure of 811.3 grams of suspected methamphetamine, 710.1 grams of suspected cocaine and 540.9 grams of suspected fentanyl. Anthony Cristobal, 30, faces seven counts by a tally of the listed charges.
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Niagara Regional Police Publish Images and Ask for Help Identifying the Suspects in Two Separate Arson Incidents at the Same Restaurant on Drummond Road in Niagara Falls, One on August 26 and One on September 26, With Two Suspects Arriving on Motorcycles Each Time (October 7, 2026)
Niagara Regional Police say a restaurant on Drummond Road in Niagara Falls was the target of two separate arson incidents, on August 26 and September 26, each involving two suspects who arrived on motorcycles. The force published images on October 7 and asks for help identifying them. No arrest is reported.
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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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The Man With Four Trafficking Counts Was Let Go on an Undertaking and the Woman With One Was Held for Bail: Niagara’s 2 District Street Crime Unit Takes 117 Grams of Fentanyl Off Desson Avenue and Will Not Say Who the Other Two Arrested Were (September 18, 2026)
Published Friday, September 18, 2026 by the Niagara Regional Police Service under incident number 26-118100. In September 2026 the NRPS 2 District (Niagara Falls/Niagara-on-the-Lake) Street Crime Unit began investigating the sale of controlled substances at an address on Desson Avenue in the City of Niagara Falls. Detectives obtained a judicial search warrant and executed it…
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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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Forty-Two Days, Three Vehicles and Six Hundred Kilometres: Josta MacNeal Is Arrested in Montreal by the SPVM on a Second-Degree Murder Charge in the Mitchell Snoddon Killing, and Maaroof Bangi Is Still Out There (August 27, 2026)
The Niagara Regional Police Service published Update #7 in the Mitchell Snoddon homicide on Thursday, August 27, 2026. Josta MacNeal was arrested that day in Montreal by the Service de police de la Ville de Montreal and will be returned to Niagara to face one count of second-degree murder. Snoddon, 35, of Niagara Falls was…
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A Speeding Toyota Corolla on Thorold Stone Road at Twenty Past One in the Morning and a Replica Glock in the Cabin: Niagara Police Charge Noah Mandula, 18, of Welland With Four Selling Counts Across Four Drugs — Then Release Him on an Undertaking (Originally Reported August 25, 2026)
This file was first published by the Niagara Regional Police Service on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. At approximately 1:20 a.m. that morning, 2 District (Niagara Falls / Niagara-on-the-Lake) uniform officers on proactive patrol on Thorold Stone Road in Niagara Falls observed a Toyota Corolla travelling at a…
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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…