Niagara Regional Police
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A Closure Order Is a Locked Door, Not a Finished File: Niagara Police Went Back to the Welland Storefront After a Break-In and Arrested the Same Man Again, With Another Nineteen Thousand in Tobacco and Hallucinogens (Originally Reported September 4, 2026)
This file was reported on Friday, September 4, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. The OPP-led Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team and the Niagara Regional Police Service have closed two unauthorized storefronts in Niagara and laid charges against two people across three search warrants in June, July and August 2026. Police…
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A Kilo of Cocaine Behind One Door in Thorold and Forty-Eight Thousand in Cash Behind Another in Welland: Niagara’s 1 District Street Crime Unit Charges Ismail Ahmed, 30, of Mississauga and Chantal Fournier, 35, of Welland (September 2, 2026)
The Niagara Regional Police Service published this file on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 under incident 26-110488. In July 2026 detectives with the 1 District Street Crime Unit, covering St. Catharines and Thorold, opened a drug investigation into a man selling suspected cocaine in St. Catharines. On September 1, 2026 detectives obtained judicial authorization to enter…
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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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Nine Accused, Seven Incident Numbers and Three Suspects Who Drove In From Burlington and Ancaster: Niagara’s 1 District CORE Unit Publishes the Results of Its ‘Street to Source’ Initiative in Downtown St. Catharines (August 26, 2026)
Niagara Regional Police published this file on Wednesday, August 26, 2026. In July 2026 the 1 District CORE Unit, working with the 1 District Street Crime Unit, began an initiative called Street to Source aimed at individuals trafficking narcotics to vulnerable populations in downtown St. Catharines. The force states that the concurrent Open-Air Drug Use…
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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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Seventy-Two Grams of Cocaine, 262 Tablets and a Machete Out of a GMC Sierra on Dorothy Street: Niagara Police Charge Trevor McLaren, 39, and Mario Michienzi, 34, After a Welland Traffic Stop (August 24, 2026)
Niagara Regional Police published the file on Monday, August 24, 2026, two days after the stop. On Saturday, August 22, uniform officers from 3 District (Welland/Pelham) on proactive patrol near East Main Street pulled over a white GMC Sierra on Dorothy Street in Welland. The driver was arrested for using plates not authorized for the…
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Niagara Bank Robbery Charges Pull ‘Gun-for-Hire’ Suspect Jayon Burgher Into a Fourth Police Jurisdiction (August 12, 2026)
Niagara Regional Police charge Jayon Burgher, 18, Brandon Brown, 22, and a 17-year-old in two failed bank robberies — extending the alleged footprint of a suspect already tied to Toronto’s ‘gun-for-hire’ shooting probe across four Ontario police services.