Ottawa
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Ottawa Police Seek Suspect in Aggravated Assault on OC Transpo Bus
Ottawa police are asking the public to help identify a suspect in an aggravated assault aboard an OC Transpo bus on October 3. The force says the suspect and another man were in a verbal and physical altercation and both got off near Bank Street and Glebe Avenue.
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Ottawa Police Charge Man After 54,000+ Cigarettes Seized on Bank Street
Ottawa police say more than 54,000 cigarettes, 52 vaping devices and more than 4,800 nicotine pouches were seized from a business on Bank Street. Melchisedekson Fresnel, 35, is charged with three Criminal Code counts; a second man, not charged, is wanted. Details were published October 26.
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Ottawa Police Say a 32-Year-Old Ottawa Woman Is Charged Under the Cannabis Control Act With Selling and Possessing Illicit Cannabis and Under the Criminal Code With Selling Unpackaged and Unstamped Tobacco and Possession of Proceeds of Crime After the Central District Neighbourhood Resource Team Executes a Search Warrant at a Cannabis and Nicotine Retail Establishment in the 300 Block of Catherine Street and Seizes 72,720 Cigarettes and About 13 Kilograms of Cannabis Flower (October 20, 2026)
Ottawa police say a search warrant at a cannabis and nicotine retail establishment in the 300 block of Catherine Street produced 72,720 cigarettes and about 13 kilograms of cannabis flower. A 32-year-old Ottawa woman faces charges under the Cannabis Control Act and the Criminal Code. Police published the details on October 20.
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Ottawa Police Charge Joshua Painson, 26, of Ottawa With Second Degree Murder in the September 19, 2024 Shooting Death of Ahmed Al-Badri in the 1600 Block of Heron Road, and Say He Was Arrested on October 14 (October 15, 2026)
Ottawa police have charged Joshua Painson, 26, of Ottawa with Second Degree Murder in the shooting death of Ahmed Al-Badri, who was found inside a vehicle in the 1600 block of Heron Road on September 19, 2024. Police say Painson was arrested on October 14 and was to appear in court the next day.
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Ottawa Police Say Project Fall Out, Run by the CORE Team and the Central Neighbourhood Resource Team in Chinatown and Centretown From September 21 to 27, Produced 23 Arrests for Offences Including Controlled Drugs and Substances Act Violations and Assault Police (October 5, 2026)
Ottawa police say 23 people were arrested in Project Fall Out, a September 21 to 27 operation in Chinatown and Centretown, for offences including Controlled Drugs and Substances Act violations and Assault Police. One Trespass to Property Act notice was issued and one stolen bicycle recovered. The force published the results on October 5.
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The Gun Was Loaded and It Was in a Youth’s Jacket Pocket, Four People Were Arrested, and the Force Has Not Published a Single Charge Against Any of Them: the Ottawa Police Guns and Gangs Unit Is Investigating After a Traffic Stop in the Area of McCarthy Road and Paul Anka Drive (October 2, 2026)
Ottawa police say officers found a loaded handgun in a youth’s jacket pocket during an arrest that followed a traffic stop in the area of McCarthy Road and Paul Anka Drive on September 30. Four people were arrested and a woman was released without charges. No charge against anyone has been published.
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Thirty-Three Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Four Cigarettes and Five Hundred and Twenty-Eight Tins of Nicotine Pouches Came Out of One Business in the 600 Block of Somerset Street West, and the Force Says the Investigation Has Concluded: Ottawa Police Charge a 44-Year-Old Man With Two Counts and Name Him Nowhere (October 2, 2026)
Ottawa police say a search warrant at a business in the 600 block of Somerset Street West produced 33,894 cigarettes, 528 tins of nicotine pouches, 47 vape devices and about $4,000. A 44-year-old Ottawa man faces two counts and has not been named. The force says the investigation has concluded.
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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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Five Days After the Shots, a Name and a Charge That Stops Short of Murder: Ottawa’s Guns and Gangs Unit Arrests Amin Osman-Ali, 33, and the Man Shot on the 1600 Block of Bank Street Is Still in Critical Condition (September 17, 2026)
The Ottawa Police Service announced on Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 1:45 p.m. that it had arrested Amin Osman-Ali, 33, of Ottawa in connection with the shooting in the 1600 block of Bank Street on September 12. He was arrested that morning, charged with several firearms-related offences and aggravated assault, and appeared in court the…