OPP
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Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Cigarettes Came Out of One Vehicle and the Stop Was Not Made by Police: the Northumberland OPP Charge Kevon Beckford, 47, of North York Four Days Later and Publish No Dollar Value At All (September 25, 2026)
Seizure made Monday, September 21, 2026; first reported Friday, September 25, 2026 at 2:35 p.m. Eastern by Zach McGibbon of Quinte News, carried the same day by Today’s Northumberland, Kawartha 411, Brighton Today and InQuinte, and by CP24 on Saturday, September 26 at 8:43 a.m. Eastern. At approximately 2 p.m. on September 21, 2026 Northumberland…
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An Organized Crime Bureau, a Street Crime Unit and a Detachment All Put Their Name on Two and a Half Grams: the OPP Charge Payton Roy, 21, of Kenora, and the Most Telling Thing Seized Was Paperwork (September 24, 2026)
First reported Thursday, September 24, 2026 by NetNewsLedger and carried the same day at 4:40 p.m. EDT by Dan Bertrand of CTV News Northern Ontario. The Ontario Provincial Police say a drug trafficking investigation by the Kenora OPP detachment, the Kenora Community Street Crime Unit and the Kenora Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau led to an…
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A Conspiracy Count With Nobody on the Other End of It: the CBSA Charges Frank Charette, 60, of Cottam With Manufacturing Prohibited Firearms and Publishes the Seventy-One-Day Gap Between the Warrants and the Announcement (September 24, 2026)
Published Thursday, September 24, 2026 at 11:15 a.m. Eastern by the Canada Border Services Agency under a Windsor dateline. The CBSA says Frank Charette, 60, of Cottam, Ontario has been charged with ten offences following an investigation by the Ontario Firearms Smuggling Enforcement Team. Search warrants executed in Essex County on July 15, 2026 produced…
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Fifteen Days Between the Warrants and the Announcement, $366,000 in Seized Value of Which Only $24,000 Was Cash, and Not One Weight Anywhere: the OPP’s Cannabis Enforcement Team Names Four Men Over a Windsor Operation Called “420 Highway” (September 17, 2026)
The Ontario Provincial Police announced on Thursday, September 17, 2026 that its Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team, working with the Essex County OPP Community Street Crime Unit and the Windsor Police Service, executed three search warrants on September 2 at two Windsor residences and a storage facility, dismantling what it describes as an illegal…
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Ninety-Eight Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty-Five Dollars and Seventy-Five Cents, Weighed Out to the Quarter, and Not One Age Anywhere in the Charge Sheet: Three Police Services Take Two Timmins Houses and Name a Toronto Man (September 16, 2026)
Published Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 3:32 p.m. Eastern by the Timmins Police Service, dateline Timmins, Ontario. On Wednesday, September 16, 2026, the Timmins Police Service Emergency Response Team executed two Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrants without incident, at a residence in the area of Birch Street South and a residence in the…
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Seven of the Eight Live in Scarborough, Two Hundred and Twenty Kilometres From the Field They Are Charged Over, and Not One of Them Faces a Criminal Code Count: the OPP’s Organized Crime Bureau Calls It a Criminal Network and Lays Cannabis Act Charges (September 16, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2026 by the Ontario Provincial Police and the Tyendinaga Police Service, seven days after the search. In August 2026 the Tyendinaga Police Service opened an investigation into an illicit cannabis production site on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory that it describes as involving a non-Indigenous criminal network, and asked the OPP Provincial Joint…
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Two Community Street Crime Units From Two Counties and an Emergency Response Team Went Through Two Doors at Twenty-Six Minutes Past Four in the Morning, and the File Contains No Weight at All: the OPP Charge a 39-Year-Old Already Bound by a Release Order in Leamington (Originally Reported September 10, 2026)
This file was reported on Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 4:34 p.m. by windsoriteDOTca News and carried on Friday, September 11 at 6:43 a.m. by AM 800 CKLW, both from an Ontario Provincial Police media release. At approximately 4:26 a.m. on Thursday, September 10, 2026, members of the Essex County and Lambton County OPP Community…
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Two Replica Firearms, Four Drugs and Not One Weight in the Whole File: the Haldimand/Norfolk OPP Charge Gwendolyn Northrup, 32, James Dawley, 39, and Mark Daniel, 58, Eight Days After a 5:30 a.m. Warrant on Stanley Street in Simcoe (Reported September 9-10, 2026)
The Haldimand/Norfolk OPP Community Street Crime Unit executed a search warrant shortly before 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 at a property on Stanley Street in Simcoe, in Norfolk County, and arrested three people without incident inside a residence on the property. Officers seized suspected fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine and MDMA, two replica firearms,…
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A Fourth Name Goes on a File That Started With Three, and He Was Already Under Three Prohibition Orders: Cornwall Police Arrest Kevin Kircoff-Hill, 23, at the Courthouse and Charge Him With Thirteen Counts (September 9, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 9, 2026 by the Cornwall Police Service. On Thursday, September 3, 2026 the Cornwall Emergency Response Team executed multiple search warrants in the area of Walton Street and St. Felix Street in Cornwall, assisted by the CPS Street Crime Unit and Criminal Investigation Division, the OPP Provincial Weapons Enforcement Unit and an…
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Six Hundred and Three Thousand and Forty-Eight Dollars, to the Seventy Cents, and Not One Gram Anywhere in the File: Wellington County OPP Charge a 26-Year-Old Elmira Man After Two Waterloo Region Warrants (Originally Reported September 7, 2026)
This file was first reported on Monday, September 7, 2026 at 2:43 p.m. EDT by Rowen Fisler of CTV News Kitchener, and carried in fuller form on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 by The Ranch 100.1 FM. It is not a story that broke today. At approximately 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 3, 2026 the Wellington…