Sûreté du Québec
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It Is a Carfentanil Lab, There Is a Second Address on rue McGill, and a 35-Year-Old Man Is in Court This Morning: the SPVM Updates the Griffintown File and Says the Dismantling Has Another Two Days to Run (August 26, 2026)
Follow-up. The Service de police de la Ville de Montreal issued a second communique on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 updating the Griffintown clandestine laboratory operation and naming the product for the first time: carfentanil. A 35-year-old man was arrested and was to appear at the Montreal courthouse the following day, Thursday, August 27. A 33-year-old…
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A Synthetic Drug Lab Inside a Griffintown Condo Tower: the SPVM Evacuates Two Floors, Shuts rue du Shannon and rue Smith, and Says the Dismantling Will Run Past a Day (August 26, 2026)
The Service de police de la Ville de Montreal issued a release on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 stating that it is leading an ongoing operation to dismantle a synthetic drug laboratory inside a residential building in Griffintown. The Surete du Quebec, the Service de securite incendie de Montreal, Urgences-sante and Health Canada are working alongside…
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Shots From Route 285 at Half Past Eight in the Morning, a Wounded Dog, and a Car Stopped a Short Distance Away: The Surete du Quebec Arrests Five Male Occupants at Saint-Adalbert (August 24, 2026)
The Surete du Quebec made five arrests at around 8:30 a.m. on Monday, August 24, 2026 after a report of possible gunshots fired from Route 285 in Saint-Adalbert, in the MRC de L’Islet in Chaudiere-Appalaches. No human victim was identified in the first hours of the investigation, but at least one dog was wounded. The…
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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…
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A Crash on the Wrong Side of the River at One in the Morning, a Body in a Lowertown Apartment by Late Morning: Ottawa Police and the Sûreté du Québec Say the Two Deaths Are Connected (August 22, 2026)
Sûreté du Québec officers responded to a single-vehicle collision east of Highway 50 near Papineauville, Quebec, shortly before 1 a.m. on Saturday, August 22, 2026. A person was found inside the vehicle with injuries police describe as considered suspicious in nature, was taken to hospital and died shortly after. As the SQ investigated it requested…
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Three Men From Trois-Rivières, One Woman From Saint-Lin, and Four Court Appearances the Same Day: Quebec’s Organized Crime Division Makes Its Arrests After Two Rounds of Searches (Reported August 20, 2026)
First reported Thursday, August 20, 2026. The Surete du Quebec’s Division des enquetes et de la coordination sur le crime organise arrested four people that day in the Trois-Rivieres and Saint-Lin-Laurentides sectors, following an operation into drug trafficking in Trois-Rivieres. Three men aged 44, 40 and 51, all of Trois-Rivieres, and a 28-year-old woman of…
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Two Sixteen-Punch Tablet Presses on an Island You Cannot Drive To: The Sûreté du Québec Releases the Count From Its Methamphetamine Lab Takedown — 402,600 Tablets, 110 Kilos of Powder, and Four Men Released Pending Proceedings (Reported August 21, 2026)
First reported August 20-21, 2026, on an operation carried out August 14. Quebec’s Escouade nationale de repression du crime organise searched two residences, one on Rang St-Andre in Saint-Philippe in the Monteregie and one on chemin de la Chapelle on Ile Bouchard at Saint-Sulpice in Lanaudiere, an island in the Vercheres archipelago that cannot be…
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He May Have Grown a Beard and He May Be in Toronto: The Sûreté du Québec Reissues Its Wanted Notice for Gianpietro Tiberio, 52, Fourteen Months After He Vanished on Arrest Day (Reported August 21, 2026)
First reported Friday, August 21, 2026. The Surete du Quebec has issued a fresh wanted notice for Gianpietro Tiberio, 52, sought for murder and attempted murder in the 2012 shooting at Cafe Domenica-In on boulevard Provencher in Montreal, which killed Domenico Facchini and wounded Vito D’Orazio. The SQ says Tiberio may now be wearing a…
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St-Lin-Laurentides Raid Strike: SQ Contraband Division Arrests Four Operatives in Illicit Cannabis Sweep
Sûreté du Québec anti-contraband officers raid an illicit cannabis hub in St-Lin-Laurentides, arresting three men and one woman servicing illegal supply corridors north of Montreal.
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Hells Angels Matrix: Multi-Agency Task Force Crushes Cocaine Pipeline Across Quebec and New Brunswick
A massive joint-task force hits 34 coordinates across Quebec and New Brunswick, seizing 15 kg of pure cocaine, over half a million in cash, and exposing a calculated Hells Angels plot to conquer Maritime drug territory.