York Regional Police
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Four of the Five Are Named in an Attachment Nobody Read and the Fifth Has Had Her Charges Withdrawn: the Project Ghostwire Charge List Puts Cedric Olipano, 38, of Mississauga at the Top and Gives Two of the Accused Court Dates That Have Already Passed
Follow-up to this site’s September 23, 2026 briefing on Project Ghostwire. York Regional Police announced the dark web fentanyl file on Tuesday, September 22, 2026 without naming any of the five people charged, referring the charge list to an attachment. That attachment, a PDF posted to the release page and dated September 23, 2026, names…
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Five People Are Charged and York Regional Police Have Not Named One of Them: the Warrants Went In on February 20 and the Dark Web Fentanyl File Was Published Seven Months Later, With Forty-Eight Thousand Fatal Doses Out of a Mississauga House (Originally Reported September 22, 2026)
Originally reported Tuesday, September 22, 2026 by York Regional Police. Project Ghostwire was led by the York Regional Police Guns, Gangs and Drug Enforcement Unit and the Cybercrime Unit in partnership with Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario, targeting the sale and distribution of controlled substances through Dark Web marketplaces and encrypted platforms. Investigators identified a high-volume…
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Two Men in All Black Got Out of a White Honda Civic, Walked Up the Driveway and Fired Into the House: York Regional Police Put the Markham Shooting on Social Media at Twelve Minutes Past Two and Have Published No Release At All (September 19, 2026)
Reported Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 6:12 a.m. EDT by Jermaine Wilson of CP24, and carried the same morning by CTV News Toronto. York Regional Police responded to the area of Warden Avenue and Highway 7 in Markham at around 2 a.m. on Saturday, September 19, 2026. In a post to social media timestamped 0212…
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Seventy-Five Days Later, York Regional Police Say There Were Two Shootings in That Plaza and That They Have Nothing to Do With Each Other: a BMW, a Driver’s Window, and a Suspect Described Down to His Sneakers While the First Two Gunmen Are Described Not at All (September 18, 2026)
York Regional Police published an update on Friday, September 18, 2026 at 8:57 a.m. Eastern under case number 26-243399, disclosing for the first time that a second shooting occurred in the same Vaughan plaza minutes after the July 5, 2026 nightclub shooting near Steeles Avenue and Scholes Road, and that investigators have determined the two…
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Three Men, One Surname, Thirty-Three Years Between the Youngest and the Oldest: York Regional Police Take a Semi-Automatic Rifle and $25,000 in Cocaine Out of a Newmarket House and Publish Not a Single Weight (September 15, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 15, 2026 by York Regional Police under case number 26-313394, media release officer Constable Kevin Nebrija. Investigators with the York Regional Police #1 District Criminal Investigations Bureau began an investigation in early September 2026 after receiving information that an individual was trafficking controlled substances in the Newmarket area. On September 12, 2026…
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He Fired at the Back of the House at Twenty Past Six in the Morning and Left on an E-Scooter Across a Golf Course, and the Weapons Call Did Not Come In Until After Half Past Eleven: York Regional Police Release Three Photographs From Angus Glen (September 9, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 9:50 a.m. EDT by York Regional Police and updated at 11:25 a.m. Investigators with the YRP Firearms Investigations Team are seeking the public’s help identifying a suspect in a shooting in the City of Markham. Police responded to a weapons call shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, August 15,…
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The Gun Went Off and the Man on the Floor Was Never Hit: York Regional Police Charge Four Over the May Avenue Home Invasion, and the One Accused of Firing It Was Already Under a Weapons Prohibition (September 8, 2026)
Follow-up. Published Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 2:37 p.m. EDT by York Regional Police under occurrence 26-307399, the force’s first written release on a Richmond Hill home invasion Gangland Files covered on September 8 when no release existed. The release corrects the record on one central fact: the victim was not struck by gunfire. On…
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A Thirteen-Year-Old Is on the Charge Sheet and Not One of the Nineteen Counts Is a Weapons Offence: York Regional Police Close Project Howler on Four Toronto Boys Linked to More Than Fifty Break-Ins (September 8, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 10:19 a.m. EDT by York Regional Police. The force’s Hold-Up Unit has charged four Toronto youths and recovered seven stolen vehicles in an investigation it calls Project Howler. Investigators say the file began after dozens of incidents in which suspects entered homes to steal keys for luxury vehicles parked…
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Two Shootings Inside Two Richmond Hill Homes in Twenty-Seven Hours, and York Regional Police Have Published a Written Release on Neither: a Man Is Shot at Yonge and Weldrick on Labour Day Morning and More Than One Suspect Walks Away (September 7, 2026)
Reported Monday, September 7, 2026 at 10:03 a.m. EDT by Jermaine Wilson of CP24. York Regional Police responded at approximately 7 a.m. that morning to the area of Yonge Street and Weldrick Road West in Richmond Hill, where one person was found with gunshot wounds and taken to hospital in non-life-threatening condition. The force says…