Sûreté du Québec
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The Sûreté du Québec Announced the Raid While the Doors Were Still Being Opened: Fifty Officers Across Five Municipalities, a Warehouse, and an Alleged Scheme Built on Medical Cannabis Certificates (September 16, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 16, 2026 by the Sûreté du Québec. Investigators from the Service des enquêtes sur la contrebande are carrying out searches in connection with cannabis smuggling and the fraudulent use of registration certificates for the personal production of cannabis for medical purposes. The operation is taking place in residences, vehicles and a warehouse…
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Two Point Three Kilograms of Cocaine and Thirteen Thousand Methamphetamine Tablets Came Out of One Address on Rue Mgr de Laval, and the Only Person Arrested Was Released the Same Day: the Sûreté du Québec Has Published Nothing at All on Chandler (Originally Reported September 11, 2026)
Reported Friday, September 11, 2026 at 10:56 by Christophe Moquin of Ma Gaspésie; the operation itself took place Thursday, September 10, 2026. The Chandler major crimes investigation team, assisted by officers of the MRC du Rocher-Percé post, searched a dwelling and a vehicle on rue Mgr de Laval in Chandler, in the Gaspé region of…
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Three Firearms, a Set of Brass Knuckles and Ammunition in Several Calibres Came Out of the House, and the Only Charges Contemplated Are Drug Charges: the Surete du Quebec Empties a Rue de la Derive Address in Havre-Saint-Pierre and Lets the Man Go the Same Day (Originally Reported September 10, 2026)
Reported Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 6:03 p.m. by Jean St-Pierre of Ma Cote-Nord, and carried the same evening by Le Manic. Officers of the Surete du Quebec post for the MRC de Minganie, assisted by investigators from the Sept-Iles-Uashat joint team, executed a search warrant at a residence on rue de la Derive in…
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A Hundred and Fifty Grams of Cannabis, Five Thousand Dollars and a Handgun Out of One Storefront on Place Bourget: the Surete du Quebec Sends Its North Shore Organized Crime Division Into Downtown Joliette and Names Nobody (September 9, 2026)
The Surete du Quebec published this file on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, five days after the operation. On Friday, September 4, 2026 officers from the SQ post for the MRC de Joliette, working with the Division des enquetes et de la coordination sur le crime organise Rive-Nord, searched a business on Place Bourget Sud in…
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A 3D-Printed Pistol With a 3D-Printed Silencer Screwed Onto It, and a Smith & Wesson With One Already in the Chamber: the Sûreté du Québec Empties a House, a Garage and a Trailer on Rue des Sous-Bois and Charges Richard Péloquin, 65 (September 9, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 9, 2026 by the Sûreté du Québec under its RESPECT armed-violence banner. On the morning of Tuesday, September 8, 2026, roughly twenty officers and the SQ tactical group searched a residence, a garage and a trailer on rue des Sous Bois in Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, in the MRC de La Jacques-Cartier northwest of Quebec…
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Nearly Half a Kilogram of Fentanyl Came Out of a Car Parked at a Highway Rest Stop, and the Man Who Was Driving It Has Been Released Without a Charge: the Sûreté du Québec Names Nobody at Notre-Dame-du-Nord (September 8, 2026)
Reported Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 5:10 p.m. by Mon Abitibi, the Arsenal Media regional outlet in Rouyn-Noranda. Surete du Quebec officers intercepted a vehicle parked at the halte routiere de Notre-Dame-du-Nord, in the Temiscamingue MRC of Abitibi-Temiscamingue, and arrested the driver, a 56-year-old man from Bearn, for impaired operation by drug. Officers then obtained…
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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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Half a Kilo of Cocaine, a 9 mm Handgun and Roughly a Thousand Prescription Pills Out of One Car on Boulevard Cartier: the Sûreté du Québec Publishes a Rivière-du-Loup Impaired-Driving Stop Two Days On, and Names Neither Accused (August 27, 2026)
The Surete du Quebec published this file on Thursday, August 27, 2026, two days after the stop. On Tuesday, August 25, officers of the MRC de Riviere-du-Loup post, working with the Division des enquetes sur les crimes majeurs, intercepted a vehicle on boulevard Cartier in Riviere-du-Loup at around 10:30 p.m. on an impaired-driving call. A…