Organized Crime
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Fifty-Four Kilograms of Fentanyl, Eighty-Nine Guns and Exactly One Name on the Indictment: Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa Pleads Guilty and the Falkland Superlab File Still Has Only One Accused (Originally Reported September 4, 2026)
This file was reported by Global News on Friday, September 4, 2026 and is not a story that broke today; the guilty plea itself was entered in B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa has pleaded guilty to several drug trafficking and firearms charges arising from the October 2024 RCMP takedown…
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Eighty Grams in a Traffic Stop, Two Point Seven Kilograms Behind a Whistle Bend Door and a Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars in Cash: the Yukon RCMP Crime Reduction Unit Charges Kennedy George, 31, of Burnaby (Originally Reported September 4, 2026)
This file was published by the Yukon RCMP on Friday, September 4, 2026 under file number 20261014157 and is not a story that broke today. On Thursday, August 27, 2026 the Yukon RCMP Crime Reduction Unit, assisted by Whitehorse RCMP and the M Division Critical Incident Program, stopped a vehicle in the Porter Creek neighbourhood…
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Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars of New Tools, Four Hundred and Eighty-Five Thousand in Cash, and a Judge Freezing a $1.2-Million House: the SPVM Publishes Two Separate Shoplifting-and-Resale Networks in a Single Release (September 2, 2026)
The Service de police de la Ville de Montreal published this file on Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Two distinct criminal networks are alleged to have stolen close to $800,000 worth of new tools from renovation centres and hardware stores across the greater Montreal region over recent months, with alleged fences reselling the goods through online…
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Two Networks That Did Not Work Together, One Investigation That Took Both: the OPP Guns and Gangs Team Puts 64 Charges on Seven People Across Brantford, Paris, London and Oneida Nation of the Thames (Originally Reported August 31, 2026)
This file was published by the Ontario Provincial Police on Monday, August 31, 2026 and is not a story that broke today; CTV News Kitchener carried it the same afternoon at 3:22 p.m. and other outlets were still picking it up on September 2. The OPP-led Provincial Guns and Gangs Enforcement Team began an intelligence-led…
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Six Prohibited Weapons, Sixty Grams of Cocaine and Thirteen Thousand Dollars Off Two Streets in Sept-Îles: the Mixed Squad Arrests Four in What the Sûreté du Québec Calls an Organized Crime File, Then Releases Every One of Them (August 28, 2026)
First reported Friday, August 28, 2026 at 10:39 a.m. by Le Nord-Cotier, in a piece by Emy-Jane Dery, with Ma Cote-Nord carrying the same file at 10:33 a.m. Investigators from the Equipe mixte de Sept-Iles, assisted by the Equipe des enquetes sur les crimes majeurs and Sept-Rivieres patrol officers, carried out three searches on Thursday,…
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A Commercial Unit, a Shipping Container and Six Cars From Two Provinces: the Sûreté du Québec’s Integrated Export Squad Searches Avenue Lépine in Dorval, Names Eight Partner Forces, and Arrests Nobody (August 28, 2026)
The Surete du Quebec published this file on Friday, August 28, 2026. The Equipe integree d’enquete sur l’exportation de vehicules voles, which the SQ coordinates, executed a search on avenue Lepine in Dorval on Thursday, August 27 in relation to what the force calls a structured vehicle theft network operating in Quebec, whose stolen vehicles…
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Ninety Thousand Methamphetamine Tablets, a Firearm and Sixteen Thousand Dollars Out of Two Houses on the Same Street: Longueuil’s Organized Crime Squad Arrests Sébastien Bernatchez, 40, and Marielle Bernatchez, 60, and Publishes Not One Charge (August 28, 2026)
First reported Friday, August 28, 2026 at 2:08 p.m. by FM 103,3, with the full seizure inventory published at 3:05 p.m. by Le Courrier du sud, in a piece by Sylvain Daignault filed under the Initiative de journalisme local. The Service de police de l’agglomeration de Longueuil says its Section lutte au crime organise –…
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A Nebulous Call at Six in the Morning, Ten Cruisers on Rue des Saules, and Eight People Taken In: Saguenay Police Say They Are Studying a Forcible Confinement and Will Not Rule Out an Organized Crime Link (August 24, 2026)
A citizen call logged around 6 a.m. on Monday, August 24, 2026 brought roughly ten patrol cars to a house on rue des Saules in the La Baie borough of Saguenay. By midday the Service de police de Saguenay confirmed eight people had been taken in for questioning. Spokesperson Caroline Darveau said police were still…
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The Hells Angels Had the Côte-Nord, Then the Blood Family Mafia Contested the Business Model: The Sûreté du Québec’s Organized Crime Chief for Eastern Quebec Puts 121 Arrests Behind One Regional Drug War (August 24, 2026)
Published Monday, August 24, 2026 by Le Soleil reporter Victoria Baril, with Le Droit carrying the same piece. Ghislain Cosette, the Surete du Quebec’s head of organized crime for eastern Quebec, states on the record that the Hells Angels originally controlled the Cote-Nord and that the arrival of the Blood Family Mafia, which contested the…
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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…