Ottawa
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A Hundred and Seventy Charges Against Nine People, Not One of Whom Is Named, and Somewhere in the List Are Firearms Offences the Release Never Explains: Ottawa Police Say Crews Were Planting Trackers on SUVs in Driveways Before Stealing Them (September 15, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern by the Ottawa Police Service, East District. The Ottawa Police Service has laid 170 criminal charges following two investigations into organized vehicle theft activity in the city’s east end, conducted over several months by the East Neighbourhood Resource Team. Investigators say the thefts focused primarily on…
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Eight Hours and Twenty-Five Minutes Passed Between the Shots and the Press Release, and the Only Unit Named Is Guns and Gangs: a Man in His Twenties Is in Life-Threatening Condition After a 4:30 a.m. Shooting on the 1600 Block of Bank Street (September 12, 2026)
The Ottawa Police Service released a five-paragraph statement on Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 12:55 p.m. reporting that officers located a man in his twenties in life-threatening condition just after 4:30 a.m. in the 1600 block of Bank Street. Ottawa Paramedics took him to hospital. No one is in custody. The Guns and Gangs Unit…
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Ten People Arrested Off Four Streets in a Single Day, and the Only Handgun in the Inventory Was a Replica: Ottawa Police Put 27 Criminal Code Charges on a Centretown Sweep Run by Six Units at Once (Originally Reported September 2, 2026)
This operation was carried out on Tuesday, September 2, 2026 and published by the Ottawa Police Service on Friday, September 4, 2026 at 1 p.m. It is not a story that broke today. Officers from the Centretown Neighbourhood Resource Team, the Market Neighbourhood Resource Team, the CORE Unit, the Community Police Unit and the Drug…
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March, July, and Now the August Long Weekend: One Hardware Store at Preston and Gladstone Has Been Shot At Three Times This Year and Ottawa’s Guns and Gangs Unit Is Asking the Street for Video (Originally Reported September 4, 2026)
This file was first reported on Friday, September 4, 2026 at 11:59 a.m. EDT by Ted Raymond of CTV News Ottawa and is not a story that broke today. The Ottawa Police Service says a single business has been the target of three shootings in 2026. Evidence of gunshots was found outside Preston Hardware, near…
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A Body on Crowder Road, an Emergency Response Team on the Scene and a Charge of Indignity to a Body: Grenville OPP Arrest Justin Donovan-Biscope, 35, of Smiths Falls Five Days After Chelsea Swinwood, 37, Was Found (Originally Reported September 3, 2026)
This file was issued by the Grenville County OPP on Thursday, September 3, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. Officers were called to a residence on Crowder Road in Spencerville on Saturday, August 29, 2026, where one person was found deceased. The death was later deemed a homicide and the deceased identified…
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One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Nine Charges Out of One Shopping Centre, and Some of Them Are Conspiracy and Disguise With Intent: Ottawa Police Report on the Downtown Rideau Retail Theft Pilot (Originally Reported September 3, 2026)
This file was issued by the Ottawa Police Service on Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 11:30 a.m. and is not a story that broke today. The force says its retail theft pilot in Downtown Rideau continues to produce results, with officers laying 1,779 charges since the pilot began. The charge mix goes well beyond theft:…
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A Wedding Full of Witnesses and a Unit That Says They Have Not Told It Everything: Ottawa’s Homicide Unit Renews Its Appeal Three Years After Two Toronto Men Were Killed Outside the Infinity Convention Centre (September 3, 2026)
The Ottawa Police Service issued this appeal on Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. Three years after a shooting outside the Infinity Convention Centre on the 2900 block of Gibford Drive left two men dead and six others injured, the OPS Homicide Unit says the investigation remains open and active and is renewing its…
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Four People Charged Over One Killing in a Riverside Park, and the Two the Warrants Were Upgraded For Are on Opposite Coasts: Lanark OPP Raise Joseph Madore and Brayton Kennedy to First-Degree Murder (Originally Reported September 3, 2026)
This file was first reported on Thursday, September 3, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. Lanark County OPP say the arrest warrants for Joseph Madore, 34, and Brayton Kennedy, 28, both of Ottawa, have been updated and each man is now wanted for first-degree murder in the April killing of Christo Allison…