Welland
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A Closure Order Is a Locked Door, Not a Finished File: Niagara Police Went Back to the Welland Storefront After a Break-In and Arrested the Same Man Again, With Another Nineteen Thousand in Tobacco and Hallucinogens (Originally Reported September 4, 2026)
This file was reported on Friday, September 4, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. The OPP-led Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team and the Niagara Regional Police Service have closed two unauthorized storefronts in Niagara and laid charges against two people across three search warrants in June, July and August 2026. Police…
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A Kilo of Cocaine Behind One Door in Thorold and Forty-Eight Thousand in Cash Behind Another in Welland: Niagara’s 1 District Street Crime Unit Charges Ismail Ahmed, 30, of Mississauga and Chantal Fournier, 35, of Welland (September 2, 2026)
The Niagara Regional Police Service published this file on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 under incident 26-110488. In July 2026 detectives with the 1 District Street Crime Unit, covering St. Catharines and Thorold, opened a drug investigation into a man selling suspected cocaine in St. Catharines. On September 1, 2026 detectives obtained judicial authorization to enter…
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A Speeding Toyota Corolla on Thorold Stone Road at Twenty Past One in the Morning and a Replica Glock in the Cabin: Niagara Police Charge Noah Mandula, 18, of Welland With Four Selling Counts Across Four Drugs — Then Release Him on an Undertaking (Originally Reported August 25, 2026)
This file was first published by the Niagara Regional Police Service on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. At approximately 1:20 a.m. that morning, 2 District (Niagara Falls / Niagara-on-the-Lake) uniform officers on proactive patrol on Thorold Stone Road in Niagara Falls observed a Toyota Corolla travelling at a…
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Twenty-Two Years Before Parole for Two Deaths at a Fort Erie House Party: Justice James Ramsey Sentences Christopher Lucas, 27, and Finds All Thirteen Remaining Guests Perjured Themselves (August 24, 2026)
Justice James Ramsey sentenced Christopher Lucas, 27, of Toronto late on the afternoon of Monday, August 24, 2026 at Welland Superior Court to 22 years of parole ineligibility for the second-degree murders of Juliana Pannunzio, 20, of Essex and Christine Crooks, 18. The killings occurred at a house party in Fort Erie, Ontario on January…
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Seventy-Two Grams of Cocaine, 262 Tablets and a Machete Out of a GMC Sierra on Dorothy Street: Niagara Police Charge Trevor McLaren, 39, and Mario Michienzi, 34, After a Welland Traffic Stop (August 24, 2026)
Niagara Regional Police published the file on Monday, August 24, 2026, two days after the stop. On Saturday, August 22, uniform officers from 3 District (Welland/Pelham) on proactive patrol near East Main Street pulled over a white GMC Sierra on Dorothy Street in Welland. The driver was arrested for using plates not authorized for the…