Youth Recruitment – Gangland Files

September 9, 2026

A Nine-Year-Old Woke to Three Hooded Men Beating His Father With a Metal Bar, and the Seventeen-Year-Old Who Was Paid to Do It Got Nothing Because It Was the Wrong Man: Le Soleil Puts the Québec City Contract Economy on the Record (September 9, 2026)

Published Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 4:01 a.m. by Judith Desmeules and Victoria Baril of Le Soleil, the second instalment of a three-part series that began Tuesday, September 8 at 4:03 a.m. One evening in May 2026, three hooded men broke down the door of an apartment in Sainte-Marie, in the Beauce, and beat a…

August 17, 2026

‘If the Car There Need the Hit Squad’: A Crown Factum Puts the Project South Murder Plot on Signal, With Aliases, Prices and a Split of the Money (August 17, 2026)

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Court documents filed by Crown prosecutors last month and reported publicly for the first time Monday describe how the alleged hit that triggered the Project South police corruption case was contracted out over the encrypted messaging app Signal. According to the factum, suspects using aliases circulated a headshot, a home address and a vehicle photo…

August 12, 2026

Ontario Vehicle Theft Falls 8.4 Per Cent While Toronto Climbs — and Investigators Say Syndicates Are Still Sending Teenagers (August 12, 2026)

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Équité Association reports an 8.4 per cent drop in Ontario vehicle thefts for the first half of 2026, but Toronto is up 8.8 per cent — and investigators say organized crime groups are still using teenagers and cheap radio hacking devices to take the cars.

August 12, 2026

Niagara Bank Robbery Charges Pull ‘Gun-for-Hire’ Suspect Jayon Burgher Into a Fourth Police Jurisdiction (August 12, 2026)

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Niagara Regional Police charge Jayon Burgher, 18, Brandon Brown, 22, and a 17-year-old in two failed bank robberies — extending the alleged footprint of a suspect already tied to Toronto’s ‘gun-for-hire’ shooting probe across four Ontario police services.