RCMP
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SPVM: Gabriel Lavoie, 22, Arrested in Playa del Carmen on a Murder Warrant, Third Arrest in the March 2025 Killing of a 34-Year-Old Man in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (October 2, 2026)
Montreal police say Gabriel Lavoie, 22, has been arrested at Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on an arrest warrant for murder in the killing of a 34-year-old man in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve on March 14, 2025. He is the third person arrested on the file. The SPVM says he is in custody pending extradition proceedings; it does not…
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A Loaded Handgun From the Driver, Four Weighed Drugs From the Car and Eleven Counts, Eight of Them Weapons Counts: Nipawin/Smeaton RCMP Charge Jered Waddington, 39, After a Traffic Stop at About 4:15 a.m. (October 1, 2026)
Saskatchewan RCMP say a traffic stop in Nipawin at about 4:15 a.m. on September 26 produced a loaded handgun, 21 grams of cocaine, 4 grams of methamphetamine, 44 grams of hydromorphone and 84 milligrams of fentanyl patches. Jered Waddington, 39, of Nipawin faces eleven counts, eight of them weapons counts, including possession of weapon obtained…
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The Cash Has a Figure and Not One of the Drugs Has a Weight, and a Bulletproof Vest Is the Only Body Armour Listed Against Two Body-Armour Counts Each: Virden RCMP Charge Blair McKay, 44, and Crystal Taylor, 40, With the Same Nine-Line List of Counts at Sioux Valley Dakota Nation (October 2, 2026)
Cocaine, methamphetamine, prescription opioids, firearms and a bulletproof vest were seized when RCMP executed a search warrant at a residence on Sioux Valley Dakota Nation on September 29, Manitoba RCMP say. Blair McKay, 44, and Crystal Taylor, 40, both arrested at the residence, each face the same counts, including three of possession for the purpose…
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More Than a Kilogram of Cocaine Came Out of a Car Stopped at Five Past Two in the Morning, and the Only Person Charged With It Was Already Out on Release Conditions: Suzie McKenzie, 36, Faces Three Counts While the Two People Arrested With Her Were Taken on Other Forces’ Warrants (October 1, 2026)
Released Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 11:51 a.m. Eastern by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Saskatchewan, five days after the incident. More than one kilogram of suspected cocaine, cash and drug trafficking paraphernalia came out of a traffic stop at Stanley Mission, Saskatchewan, at approximately 2:05 a.m. on Saturday, September 26, 2026. Three people were…
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The Guns Were Reported Stolen to One Detachment, the Car to a Second, and Both Men in It Were Already Bound by Release Orders: Scott Taylor, 37, and Rudy Contois, 26, Are Stopped on Highway 6 Four Days Before Anybody Is Told (September 27, 2026)
Released Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 10:37 a.m. Eastern by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Manitoba, four days after the incident of Sunday, September 27, 2026. At 3:30 p.m. that day Lundar RCMP received a report of a suspicious vehicle on Chartrand Road in St Laurent, Manitoba, responded immediately, and located the vehicle travelling north…
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One Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety-Two Days After a Man Was Shot at Queen and Rutherford, They Found Him in Cross Lake, Manitoba: Peel Police Charge Nakeem Jamar Johnson, 36, With Seventeen Counts, and the Conspiracy Count Alleges Somebody Else Was In On It (October 1, 2026)
Published Thursday, October 1, 2026 by Peel Regional Police under N/R 26-183 and occurrence PR220041313. The force says its Major Crime Unit arrested Nakeem Jamar Johnson, 36, on September 22, 2026 in Cross Lake, Manitoba, with RCMP assistance, on a Canada-wide warrant issued in 2023. The investigation opened on February 3, 2022, when officers responded…
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The Release Existed After All and It Was Filed Under Federal Policing Eastern Region: the RCMP Document on Project Chrome Names Its Own Money Laundering Team, Dates the Searches to March 2024, and Still Will Not Name the Organization (September 29, 2026)
Follow-up to this site’s September 29, 2026 briefing on Project Chrome, which recorded that no RCMP release page on the file could be located. The release exists. It is published by RCMP Federal Policing Eastern Region at rcmp.ca/en/news/2026/09/4357357 and dated September 29, 2026, and it closes four of the gaps that briefing left open. The…
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Twenty-Four Charges Between Four Men and Nobody Was Hit: One Firearm Came Out of the Car Loaded, and Shane Bear Was Already Barred From Having Either of Them (September 29, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 29, 2026 by the Saskatchewan RCMP under Information #90644844. At approximately 3 p.m. on September 26, 2026, people inside a vehicle on Big River First Nation, Saskatchewan discharged a firearm toward a parked vehicle at a residential property. No damage and no injuries resulted. A flight from police followed and ended in…
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He Was Already Designated High-Risk, the Argument Was About Money, and He Is Alleged to Have Fired From Inside the Car and Again From Outside It: Nova Scotia RCMP Charge Robert “Robbie” Edgar Paul, 34, With Eight Offences at Mill Village (September 29, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 1:45 p.m. Eastern by the Nova Scotia RCMP under file 2026-1405248. Robert “Robbie” Edgar Paul, 34, of Millbrook, Nova Scotia, described by the force as previously designated a high-risk offender, is charged with eight offences arising from an incident at a residence on Indian Rd. in Mill Village on…
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Four Years, a Hundred Bank Accounts and Forty-Five Thousand Transactions to Reach Sixteen People and Fourteen Kilos: the RCMP Charges Franco Lopez, 61, as the Alleged Head of Project Chrome, and the Sixteenth Accused Is Already Out of the Country (September 29, 2026)
First reported Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 8:15 a.m. Eastern by Noovo Info, carried by Global News at 12:25 p.m. and by Narcity Montreal at 2:46 p.m. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has charged sixteen people in a cocaine trafficking and money laundering investigation called Project Chrome, opened in 2022. Fifteen were expected at the…