Sept-Îles
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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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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…