Organized Crime
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Thirty-Six Counts, Four Men and Three Weeks of Silence: the RCMP’s Money Laundering Team Takes $3 Million in Contraband Tobacco Out of Calgary and Airdrie and Names No Organization Behind Any of It (September 24, 2026)
Published Thursday, September 24, 2026 by the RCMP. The Federal Policing Northwest Region’s Integrated Money Laundering Investigative Team says an investigation into an illegal tobacco trafficking ring operating in Calgary and Airdrie, Alberta has produced four arrests and 36 charges. Jonathan Patrick Roach, 42, of Calgary faces 10 charges and was arrested on September 3,…
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Three Doors Went In on September 18 and the Force Waited Six Days to Say So: Ottawa’s Organized Crime Unit Pulls Sixteen Kilograms of Cocaine Out of Riverside South and Nepean and Will Not Name One of the Five People It Arrested (September 24, 2026)
Published Thursday, September 24, 2026 at 11:15 a.m. Eastern by the Ottawa Police Service. Members of the Organized Crime Unit and the Tactical Unit executed three Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrants on September 18, 2026 at two locations in Riverside South and one in Nepean. Seized: more than 16 kilograms of cocaine, approximately…
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The Biggest Cocaine Seizure in the Force’s History Was Found by T-Shirt Wholesalers, Not Police, and Vancouver Police Have Published No Release About It: 328 Kilograms in Fourteen Duffle Bags, Sixty-Three Days After the Call (Originally Reported September 22, 2026)
First reported Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 10:26 p.m. Eastern by The Canadian Press. The Vancouver Police Department says it has made the largest single cocaine seizure in its history, totalling more than 328 kilograms. Staff at a local company opened a shipping container on July 21, 2026 and found fourteen duffle bags of cocaine…
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Seven Items Came Off the Warrant and Three of Them Were Printed: Calgary’s Gun Violence Enforcement Team Lays Twenty Counts on Three Men, Eight of Them for Breaching Orders That Already Barred Them From Guns (September 23, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 9:46 a.m. Mountain time by the Calgary Police Service. A search warrant executed on Thursday, September 10, 2026 in the 100 block of Covington Rise N.E. produced a Glock 17 handgun, an H&R Arms Company .22 calibre revolver, a 3D printed Glock 18 handgun, a 3D printer, a 3D…
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The Searches Were Done in March and April and the Arrests Waited Until September: the Estrie Mixed Regional Squad Names Eight People Over an Organization It Says Controlled the Cocaine Trade in Magog, and Four Walk Out the Same Day (September 22, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 22, 2026 by the Surete du Quebec. Officers of the Escouade regionale mixte de l’Estrie arrested eight people that day in an investigation opened in October 2025 into an organization the SQ says controlled the cocaine trade in Magog. Three phases of searches were carried out in Waterloo, Bolton-Est, Magog and Sherbrooke…
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Twenty-Three Guns Came Out of an Undercover Operation and Thirty-Seven of the Trafficking Counts Landed on Two People: Peel Ties a Recovered Firearm to a March 2024 Mississauga Homicide and Names No Organization At All (Originally Reported September 22, 2026)
Originally reported Tuesday, September 22, 2026 by Peel Regional Police. The Specialized Enforcement Bureau, working with the United States Department of Homeland Security and Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario, ran an undercover operation called Project Red Zone from October 2025 to July 2026 against a firearm trafficking network operating across the Greater Toronto Area. Police seized…
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The Organizer Died Five Weeks Before the Plea and the Charge That Names the Club Survived Him: Randall King Admits Trafficking Cocaine for the Hells Angels Nanaimo Chapter, Five Years and Eight Months After CFSEU-BC Opened the File (September 22, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 22, 2026 by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia. CFSEU-BC says Randall James Morley King, known as Randy, pleaded guilty on September 14, 2026 to trafficking cocaine for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a criminal organization, to conspiracy to traffic cocaine, and to…
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Thirty-Five People Were Arrested and Not One Charge Has Been Announced: Kamloops RCMP Publish a Three-Day Organized-Crime Sweep Sixteen Days After It Ended, With Thirty-Two Weapons Nobody Has Described and a Hundred and Fifty-Nine Grams of Drugs (September 21, 2026)
Published Monday, September 21, 2026 by the Kamloops RCMP and carried the same afternoon by Castanet Kamloops at 2:13 p.m. Pacific under Josh Dawson’s byline and by CTV News Vancouver at 2:28 p.m. Pacific under Todd Coyne’s. The detachment says its Proactive Enforcement Team ran a coordinated three-day deployment in Kamloops and Tk’emlups te Secwepemc…
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The Sûreté du Québec Put Its Organized Crime Division on a House Where the Only Weapon Was a Set of Brass Knuckles, and Two Days Later Has Published Nothing About It Itself: a Man of 31 and a Woman of 45 Held After a Search on Avenue La Salle in Shawinigan (September 17, 2026)
Le Nouvelliste reported on Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 10:25 a.m. that the Sûreté du Québec, working with its Division des enquêtes et de la coordination sur le crime organisé, searched a residence on avenue La Salle in Shawinigan on Tuesday, September 15. Officers seized more than 160 grams of cocaine, more than 65 grams…
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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…