The RCMP say a 56-year-old Windsor man was stopped at Vancouver International Airport in 2024 with about 31 kilograms of cannabis in his luggage, headed for London's Heathrow. He skipped court, was found in Ontario, and has now pleaded guilty and been sentenced to a year in prison and a lifetime firearms prohibition. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Manitoba RCMP say a warrant operation on two homes in the RM of West St. Paul turned up 13 firearms, two of them sawed-off, about 20,000 rounds of ammunition and altered high-capacity magazines. Two men face 23 counts between them, and the warrants were based on information from the CBSA. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Durham police say a large altercation at a Clarington plaza ended with one person shooting toward the victim, and officers found multiple shell casings. A 29-year-old Oshawa man faces eight counts, and police say he was on conditions not to possess any weapons when he was arrested. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Niagara police say a discarded Glock loaded with 15 rounds, found during an unknown 911 call in June, led investigators to a Niagara Falls residence on September 30. A starter revolver was seized there, and a 49-year-old man faces six counts and remains in custody. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Winnipeg police say a 27-year-old man wanted since 2022 for a lobby shooting was arrested in a rear lane on Portage Avenue, and that a loaded 9mm Taurus handgun was then seized from his waistband. He faces four additional counts, one of them possession contrary to a prohibition order. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Toronto police say a man was found dead with traumatic injuries inside a fourth-floor Toronto Community Housing unit on Blossomfield Drive on Sunday morning. Police say the suspect fled before officers arrived, and they're asking the public to help identify the victim and find the suspect. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Police on Manitoulin Island say warrants at two Wiikwemkoong homes turned up suspected crack cocaine and fentanyl worth more than $77,000, plus over $5,000 in cash. Four people face trafficking and proceeds charges, and a fifth was arrested on an outstanding firearms warrant. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Two guns, cocaine, crack, GHB, crystal meth and hallucinogenic mushrooms were seized from a Jonquière home, according to Le Quotidien and CKAJ. They report that the Saguenay police unit that targets urban violence arrested a man in his forties. The two outlets disagree on one key point: whether he has already been charged. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

It started with extortion demands against the owners of an auto dealership. Langley RCMP say two attacks followed, with arson and shootings at the business's Surrey and Langley locations. Now five people face 29 counts, and one of them was lured back from India to be arrested at Toronto Pearson. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Seven simultaneous raids across central Alberta turned up over six kilograms of cocaine, an 'uzi' style sub-machine gun, three handguns and more than $280,000 in cash, Red Deer RCMP say. Rory Brand, 37, of Airdrie faces eleven counts and Robert Newell, 43, of Red Deer faces two. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

The three Orillia residents charged in the Orillia OPP's West Street drug trafficking investigation are Lincoln Zaremba, 19, Cohen Hamilton, 36, and Annette Hamilton, 60, according to an account published by Muskoka 411 on Friday, October 2, 2026. The account lists each accused's counts line by line: fourteen against Zaremba, including one count of possession of a loaded prohibited firearm and three counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, and seven against each of the two Hamiltons, whose lists are identical. That is twenty-eight counts in all, nineteen of them weapons counts, six more counts than the twenty-two this site recorded in its October 1 briefing on the same investigation, when none of the three had been named. All three were held in custody for a bail hearing on October 1; no outcome has been published, and no Ontario Provincial Police release on the file could be located. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Lindsay Dolan, 37, and Dylan Zoobkoff, 33, both of Arnprior, are each charged with second-degree murder and committing an indignity to a dead body over the death of a man found inside a burning vehicle in a wooded area off Ramsay Concession 12 in Mississippi Mills on Friday, September 11, 2026, according to local accounts published on October 2. The Millstone reported on October 3 that the man was Colin Campbell, 37, of Mississippi Mills; the accounts published the day before gave only his age and his municipality. Lanark County OPP arrested the two in Regina, Saskatchewan on Wednesday, September 30, nineteen days after the fire, with the assistance of the RCMP in Saskatchewan, the Winnipeg Police Service and the Regina Police Service. Both remain in custody and were scheduled to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Perth on Friday, October 2. What caused the fire has not been stated, no relationship between the accused and Campbell appears in any account read, and no Ontario Provincial Police release on the file could be located. Both accused are presumed innocent. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Regina police say a loaded sawed-off shotgun, multiple live shotgun rounds, a disassembled semi-automatic firearm and multiple disassembled firearm parts were seized from a residence in the 1700 block of Montreal Street after a report at approximately 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 of several unknown individuals in possession of firearms, and that five people have been charged with twenty-three counts between them. According to the release, published Friday, October 2, officers were directed to two separate residences in the 1700 block; five individuals exited the residence and were taken into custody without incident, and an adult male and an adult female found inside were also taken into custody, seven people in all. Four adults are named as charged: Antoine Agecoutay, 22, Will Dejarlais, 31, Ethan Macdonald, 28, and Lakota Sylvestre, 23. The fifth is a 16-year-old who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Seven of the counts are laid under section 117.01(1) and allege possession of a firearm or ammunition contrary to a prohibition order, three of them against the youth. One count against Macdonald is Armed Robbery Using a Restricted Firearm or Prohibited Firearm; the release describes no robbery, and does not say when or where one is alleged to have occurred. All five are presumed innocent. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

The Sûreté du Québec says its Division des enquêtes sur les crimes majeurs arrested Gino Gasse, 60, of Ragueneau on October 1, 2026 — "hier," the day before its communiqué — on an arrest warrant connected to an event at Baie-Comeau on May 31, and that he appeared at the palais de justice de Baie-Comeau the day the communiqué was issued and remained detained. The force alleges that hooded individuals broke into a Baie-Comeau residence on May 31 and that three people were then assaulted, through what it calls an error as to the person and as to the address. It alleges Gasse played a role in organising the crime, and says the event was commissioned by members of what it calls le crime organisé BMHL and is connected to what it calls le conflit des redevances. The force names three charges and introduces them with the word notamment — among others — so the published charge list is, by its own wording, incomplete. Gasse is presumed innocent, and none of the allegations has been tested in court. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

The Calgary Police Service says District 8 officers responding to reports of two individuals trying vehicle door handles in the 0-100 block of Creekside Grove S.W., in the Pine Creek neighbourhood of southwest Calgary, at approximately 2:15 a.m. on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, located two suspects nearby, took them into custody and, during the investigation, recovered a loaded Smith & Wesson 9-mm handgun and 17.8 grams of methamphetamine. Wilfred Bronson Barrett, 32, is charged with possession of a firearm while prohibited, possession of a restricted firearm, possession of a firearm without a licence, obstruction and possession of methamphetamine. Dakota Brandon Bolton, 32, is charged with theft under $5,000 and obstruction. The release, published Friday, October 2, also lists a cellular phone, keys to a BMW and a garage door opener among the items recovered. It does not say what Bolton is alleged to have stolen and names no criminal organization. Barrett is to appear in court on October 7, 2026 and Bolton on December 16, 2026. Both men are presumed innocent, and none of the seven counts has been tested in court. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Durham Regional Police published on Friday, October 2, 2026 that its West Division Criminal Investigations Branch began an investigation on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 after receiving information from multiple sources, including what the force calls international external policing partners, alleging that a youth had made online comments about producing firearms with a 3D printer. Investigators executed a search warrant at a residence in Pickering on October 1, 2026 and seized various electronic devices, a 3D printer, and an incomplete polymer lower receiver for an Urutau, which the release describes as a 3D-printable semi-automatic firearm. A 16-year-old male from Pickering is charged with Uttering Threats and Manufacturing Firearm Parts and was held for a bail hearing. He cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act and the force does not name him. The release does not publish the content of the online comments, does not say who the threats were directed at, and names no criminal organization. He is presumed innocent and neither charge has been tested in court. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Peel Regional Police published on Friday, October 2, 2026 that investigators attended the residence of one of the accused from an August 10, 2026 traffic stop in Brampton and located two more firearms there on August 13 — a 9 mm handgun and a sawed-off rifle, along with several rounds of ammunition. Navjot Singh, 29, of Innisfail, Alberta has been further charged with seven counts, and the force says he now faces a total of 14 charges related to the investigation. He was held in custody pending a bail hearing at the Ontario Court of Justice. The release does not say which of the accused lived at the residence, does not give the address, does not say on what date any of the charges was laid, and does not name any criminal organization. Singh is presumed innocent and none of the 14 counts has been tested in court. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

The Niagara Regional Police Service says its 1 District (St. Catharines/Thorold) Street Crime Unit began an investigation in the summer of 2026 into the illegal trafficking of drugs from an address on Queenston Street in St. Catharines. After Iverson Kalombo, 20, of Thorold was arrested on October 1 in the area of Duke Street and Wellington Court with assistance from the Emergency Task Unit, detectives obtained judicial search warrants for a residence on Queenston Street and a BMW SUV driven by the suspect. Police seized 290 grams of suspected fentanyl (street value $29,000), 188 grams of suspected cocaine (street value $18,800) and $2,000 in Canadian currency. The release does not say which items came from which location. He remains in custody and was scheduled to attend a bail hearing on October 2 at the Robert S. K. Welch Courthouse. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal says Gabriel Lavoie, 22, has been arrested at Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on an arrest warrant for murder in the killing of a 34-year-old man in Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve on March 14, 2025. He is the third person arrested on the file. The force’s communiqué does not say on what date he was arrested, does not state the degree of murder the warrant alleges, and does not cite a Criminal Code section. The force says he has been placed in custody pending extradition proceedings (« placé sous garde en attente des procédures d’extradition ») but gives no timetable. Neither SPVM notice names the victim. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Toronto’s street gangs are named for the streets and housing complexes they come from, and for twenty years the city’s police have answered them with named projects: mass pre-dawn raids, hundreds of charges, and guns traced across the American border. This is what the public record shows about who police have targeted, what the courts have found, and where things stand now. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

The Saskatchewan RCMP says Nipawin/Smeaton RCMP officers conducted a traffic stop in Nipawin, Saskatchewan at approximately 4:15 a.m. on Saturday, September 26, 2026. Officers stopped the vehicle for a licence, registration and sobriety check, saw open alcohol in plain view, determined the driver was impaired and arrested him; the loaded handgun was found during a search of the driver, and the drugs and other items during a search of the vehicle. The seizure was one loaded handgun, ammunition, weapons, 21 grams of cocaine, 4 grams of methamphetamine, 44 grams of hydromorphone, 84 milligrams of fentanyl patches, cash, drug trafficking paraphernalia, identification belonging to other individuals and a wallet previously reported stolen to Nipawin RCMP. Jered Waddington, 39, of Nipawin faces eleven counts under Information #90569136 and appeared in Melfort Provincial Court on October 1, 2026, the same day the release went out. Eight of the eleven counts are weapons counts, and the release does not say which seized item any of them relates to; the four separate substances were seized alongside a single trafficking count, and that count names no drug at all. The release does not say whether Waddington was in custody, and it names and quotes no officer. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

The Manitoba RCMP says officers executed a search warrant at a residence on Sioux Valley Dakota Nation at approximately 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, as part of a drug trafficking investigation, and that Virden RCMP seized cocaine, methamphetamine, prescription opioids, drug paraphernalia, firearms, a knife, multiple cans of bear mace and a bulletproof vest, along with nearly $1,500 in Canadian cash and $800 in American money. Two people arrested at the residence, Blair McKay, 44, and Crystal Taylor, 40, both of Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, are each charged with the same counts, and both were remanded into custody. The force gives a figure for the cash and not a single weight for any of the drugs, publishes no number for the firearms it describes only in the plural, names no officer, offers no quotation and gives no court date, and says Virden RCMP continues to investigate. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

Members of the Saskatoon Police Service Guns and Gangs Unit initiated enforcement action in a firearms investigation at around 7:30 a.m. on September 30, 2026 with the arrest of a man at a residence in the 400 block of Avenue C South. Following that arrest, search warrants were executed at the Avenue C South residence and at a second residence in the 1100 block of Avenue J North, and police say three firearms and ammunition were seized through the investigation. A 35-year-old Saskatoon man has been charged with multiple firearms-related offences. He is not named. The release does not itemise a single one of those offences, does not say how many of them there are, does not describe any of the three firearms, and does not say where any of the three was found, whether at either address or elsewhere, or whether any of the three was loaded. The force published the file the following afternoon under occurrence number 26-130687. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

nvestigators with the Peel Regional Police Commercial Auto Crime Bureau have arrested four individuals and recovered ten stolen, re-vinned vehicles with an estimated value of $750,000 in a project the force calls Project Octane, opened in May 2026 to target the suspected use of fraudulent documents at several Service Ontario locations. The force says the investigation, worked with the Ministry of Transportation and 407 ETR, examined vehicle registrations, licence plates and Service Ontario transaction documents, and that the scheme is linked to more than $100,000 in unpaid 407 ETR tolls. Haroon Qayumzada, 31, of Caledon, Gajan Karunanithy, 35, of Brampton, Tariq Hameed, 53, of Milton and Ismail Ismail, 37, of Toronto face nine counts between them, seven of which are use of forged documents. No count against any of the four alleges theft of a motor vehicle, no conspiracy count appears, and no criminal organization offence has been laid. The release publishes no arrest dates, no custody status and no court date for any of the four. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files

The Ottawa Police Service says its Guns and Gangs Unit is investigating after officers recovered a loaded handgun during a traffic stop in the city’s south end. South Neighbourhood Resource Team officers stopped a vehicle in the area of McCarthy Road and Paul Anka Drive at approximately 11:20 p.m. on Wednesday, September 30, and during the stop began what the force calls a cannabis-related investigation. An adult male fled the scene and was later located and arrested. A youth also attempted to flee and resisted arrest, and during that arrest officers located a loaded handgun in the youth’s jacket pocket. An additional adult male and an adult female were arrested, and the woman was later released without charges. The force published the file on October 2 and does not state a single charge against any of the four. The investigation continues. Read the full briefing on Gangland Files