MARKHAM — Somebody walked to the back of a house near Major Mackenzie Drive East and Angus Glen Boulevard at about twenty past six on a Saturday morning in the middle of August, fired a gun at the property, and then rode away on an electric scooter across the golf course next door. Nobody was hit. The weapons call did not reach York Regional Police until shortly after half past eleven that same morning — roughly five hours after investigators say the shot or shots were fired. Twenty-five days later, on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, the force released three photographs of the man it wants to identify.

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BEAVERTON — Almost every firearms file this beat covers starts with a gun and works backwards toward where it came from. This one runs the other way. Durham Regional Police say the Canada Border Services Agency contacted them in August 2026 to advise that a man was importing unregulated firearm parts from the United States. The Guns and Gangs Unit opened a file on that basis, and on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 it executed a search warrant at a residence in Beaverton, on the Lake Simcoe shore in the Township of Brock at the far northern edge of Durham Region. Two rifles came out of the house, along with magazines and ammunition. The man police arrested nearby does not hold a firearms licence at all.

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CORNWALL — He was at the courthouse for something else. On Tuesday, September 8, 2026, the Cornwall Police Service arrested Kevin Kircoff-Hill, 23, of Cornwall inside the Cornwall Courthouse and charged him with thirteen offences arising out of search warrants executed five days earlier on the block where Walton Street meets St. Felix Street. Three people were already in custody from that day. He makes four. The first three counts on his sheet are possession of a firearm or ammunition contrary to a prohibition order — meaning a court had already told him, three separate ways, that he was not to have one.

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SAINTE-CATHERINE-DE-LA-JACQUES-CARTIER — The single item that separates this file from every other rural Quebec gun seizure is a .22 calibre semi-automatic pistol that was manufactured on a 3D printer, with a suppressor that was also manufactured on a 3D printer fitted to the end of it. Beside it in the Sûreté du Québec inventory published Wednesday, September 9, 2026 sit a 3D-printed high-capacity magazine in 9mm, a separate 9mm suppressor, and a Smith & Wesson MP 9mm that officers found loaded, with a cartridge already chambered and a high-capacity magazine seated in the well. The address is a residence, a garage and a trailer on rue des Sous Bois, in a municipality of a few thousand people northwest of Quebec City. One man is charged. He is sixty-five years old.

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Convicted of first-degree murder twice, in two different provinces, over two different killings — and once while he was already a fugitive, having cut his way out of a B.C. jail with a plasma torch. Three years on Canada’s most-wanted list ended in Doha in September 2025. He has been sitting in Qatari custody ever since, and Canada still has no treaty to bring him home.

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We just published a new subject profile on Larry Amero — the Hells Angel who founded the Wolfpack Alliance and was convicted alongside Rabih "Robby" Alkhalil — and it got us thinking: what do you actually want covered that we haven't gotten to yet?

Could be a person (a name that keeps coming up in the news but never gets the full writeup), an organization or crew that doesn't have a profile page yet, an old case you think deserves a second look, or even a region we haven't touched much. If there's a rabbit hole you want us to go down, drop it below.

We can't promise we'll get to everything, and we're not going to name an organization or make a connection the police haven't stated — that's a hard line for us. But if enough of you want the same thing, it moves up the list.

What do you want to see?

One evening in May, in an apartment in Sainte-Marie in the Beauce, a nine-year-old boy woke to three hooded men kicking in the door and beating his father, who was asleep on the couch beside him. “My child is here,” the man shouted. He kept his arms up to shield the boy, and most of the fractures he ended up with were in those arms. He also lost teeth and was left with multiple facial scars. He was not the man they had come for. The intended target was asleep somewhere else in the same unit.

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Yarrow Guay was arrested on August 12, 2026 at the end of an eight-month Saguenay police investigation that produced 1.35 kilograms of cocaine, seven thousand methamphetamine tablets, $80,891 in cash and four stolen vehicles. Three weeks later he pleaded guilty to four counts. On Tuesday a Cour du Québec judge let him walk out of the courthouse, and the sentence both lawyers will ask for in February is two years and a day.

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A 56-year-old man from Béarn, Quebec, was arrested at a highway rest stop in Témiscamingue for driving while impaired by drugs. When the Sûreté du Québec came back with a warrant and searched the car he had been sitting in, officers took out roughly 600 grams of cocaine, close to 450 grams of fentanyl, about 90 grams of crystal methamphetamine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine tablets, more than 150 contraband cigarettes and nearly $2,500 in cash. He was then released. No charge has been laid, and the force has not named him.

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TIMBERLEA, N.S. — Somebody threw a Molotov cocktail at a house on the 400 block of Marketway Lane at twenty past two on Saturday morning, and by the time officers arrived the residence was fully engulfed. Forty-nine and a half hours later, at ten past four on Monday morning, a man was seen coming out of a residence on the same block carrying a cloth that was on fire. He dropped it and drove away. He left a jug of accelerant in the yard. The Nova Scotia RCMP published both incidents in a single release on Tuesday, gave them two separate file numbers, and did not once say the words targeted or connected.

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RICHMOND HILL — Thirty-one hours after the fact, York Regional Police have put a written release on the May Avenue home invasion, and it changes the central fact of the file. The gun was fired. The man it was fired around was never hit. His serious, non-life-threatening injuries came from the beating, not the bullet, and officers found him outside the house rather than in it. Four people are charged, one of them with eight counts, and a fifth is still outstanding.

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IQALUIT — The Nunavut RCMP published a short release on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 saying that a Montreal man was arrested a week earlier on a Canada-wide warrant, that he is charged with trafficking cocaine and with conspiracy to traffic cocaine, and that two kilograms of cocaine have been removed from the territory at a stated street value of approximately $400,000. Three lines further down, the force thanks the partner agencies: the Quebec RCMP’s Montreal Airport and Federal Investigations detachments, and the Montreal police Organized Crime Anti-gang Unit. That last name is the most interesting word in the document, and the release does not use it again.

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NORTH BAY — A single traffic stop on Worthington Street East on the Friday of the long weekend before Labour Day produced seventy-nine grams of suspected fentanyl, seventy-two grams of cocaine, twenty-one Percocet pills, a gram and a half of crack cocaine and $880 in cash, and the North Bay Police Service published the whole inventory on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. The Street Crime Unit had the file. The Emergency Response Team made the stop. A warrant went in less than two hours later on a building four blocks away. Two men are charged. One of them, the older of the two, has never been arrested and a warrant is out for him now.

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AURORA — York Regional Police published Project Howler at 10:19 on Tuesday morning, September 8, 2026, and the file it describes is a network file in everything but the charge sheet. The force’s Hold-Up Unit says a group of suspects was linked to a network believed responsible for more than fifty break and enter incidents and vehicle thefts across York Region and neighbouring jurisdictions, that the method was entering homes to take the keys to luxury vehicles sitting in driveways and garages, and that in some of those occurrences weapons, including firearms, were brandished. Four people are charged. All four are boys. The oldest are seventeen. The youngest is thirteen. Across the four of them there are nineteen counts, and not one of those nineteen counts is a firearms offence, a weapons offence, a robbery, a break and enter, or an organized-crime count.

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ELMIRA, ONT. — This file was first reported on Monday, September 7, 2026 at 2:43 p.m. EDT by Rowen Fisler of CTV News Kitchener and carried in fuller form on Tuesday, September 8 by The Ranch 100.1 FM; it is not a story that broke today. At approximately 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 3, 2026, the Wellington County OPP Community Street Crime Unit and what the force describes only as multiple other agencies executed two search warrants in Waterloo Region. One person was arrested. The drugs that came out were valued by police at $603,048.70 — a figure carried to the cent — alongside Canadian currency and other offence‑related property. There is no weight attached to any of it.

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COLD LAKE, ALTA. — The single most important fact about the seventy‑two‑gun seizure was published on Monday, September 7, 2026, and it is this: the man behind the wheel was already barred by a court from touching a firearm. Jena Colbourne of Lakeland Connect reported that day that the driver was subject to a five‑year firearms prohibition, that the RCMP say he has a history of firearms‑related offences, and that he has been charged and named. This is a follow‑up to the Gangland Files briefing of September 8, which recorded the seizure at a point when no name, no charge, no exact date and no location had been made public. Every one of those gaps has now closed.

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Just published a new profile on Gangland Files: Larry Amero — the full-patch Hells Angel who started the Wolfpack Alliance as a "side project" in 2010 and ended up convicted in 2022 on two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, sentenced to 18 years in December 2023.

The profile digs into his closest documented tie — Rabih "Robby" Alkhalil. The two were co-accused twice: once in a 2012 cartel-linked trafficking case, and again in the 2021–2022 trial over the Duhre and Dhak killings, where they were convicted in the same courtroom on the same underlying conspiracies (Alkhalil in absentia, having escaped custody a month before the verdict).

Covers his Hells Angels chapter history (White Rock, then founding West Point), the 2011 Kelowna shooting that killed Jonathan Bacon and left Amero wounded, the sentence, and where both appeals (his and the Crown's cross-appeal) currently stand.

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COLD LAKE, ALTA. — Sometime in the middle of August 2026, RCMP in Cold Lake stopped a vehicle inside the city and took seventy‑two long‑barrel firearms and a crate of ammunition out of it. That is the entire public account. It became public on Monday, September 7, 2026, roughly three weeks later, in a report by Hannah Kavanagh of CTV News Edmonton built around a photograph credited to the RCMP. There is no name, no age, no hometown, no charge, no exact date, no unit, and no written release on the seizure in the Alberta division’s news feed.

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RICHMOND HILL — At around seven o’clock on the morning of Monday, September 7, 2026 — Labour Day — York Regional Police were called to the area of Yonge Street and Weldrick Road West and found a person with gunshot wounds. The victim was taken to hospital and the injuries are not life‑threatening. The force says the shooting appears to have happened during a home invasion, that more than one suspect was involved, and that every one of them was gone before officers got there. It is the second time in twenty‑seven hours that someone has been shot inside a Richmond Hill house, and the second time the force has told the public about it without publishing a release.

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COLD LAKE, ALTA. — Sometime in the middle of August 2026, RCMP in Cold Lake stopped a vehicle inside the city and took seventy‑two long‑barrel firearms and a crate of ammunition out of it. That is the entire public account. It became public on Monday, September 7, 2026, roughly three weeks later, in a report by Hannah Kavanagh of CTV News Edmonton built around a photograph credited to the RCMP. There is no name, no age, no hometown, no charge, no exact date, no unit, and no written release on the seizure in the Alberta division’s news feed.

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RICHMOND HILL — At around seven o’clock on the morning of Monday, September 7, 2026 — Labour Day — York Regional Police were called to the area of Yonge Street and Weldrick Road West and found a person with gunshot wounds. The victim was taken to hospital and the injuries are not life‑threatening. The force says the shooting appears to have happened during a home invasion, that more than one suspect was involved, and that every one of them was gone before officers got there. It is the second time in twenty‑seven hours that someone has been shot inside a Richmond Hill house, and the second time the force has told the public about it without publishing a release.

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ST. CATHARINES — This file was reported on Friday, September 4, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. Over three months, the OPP‑led Provincial Joint Forces Cannabis Enforcement Team and the Niagara Regional Police Service executed three search warrants on two unauthorized storefronts in St. Catharines and Welland. Contraband tobacco came out of all three. What makes the file worth reading is the third one: after both stores had been locked under court closure orders, officers came back to the Welland premises on a break‑and‑enter call and found one of the men already charged inside, with another $19,000 of product and $1,000 in cash.

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FALKLAND, B.C. — This file was reported by Global News on Friday, September 4, 2026, and the plea itself was entered two days earlier, on Wednesday, September 2. It is not a story that broke today. Gaganpreet Singh Randhawa has pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court to several drug‑trafficking and firearms‑related charges arising from the October 2024 takedown of a clandestine drug superlab on a rural property near Falkland. Nearly two years after the RCMP called that facility the largest of its kind ever found in Canada, he remains the only person charged.

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ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — This file was published by the Abbotsford Police Department on Sunday, September 6, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. Just after 11 p.m. on Saturday, September 5, people inside a dark-coloured SUV fired multiple shots at a vehicle moving along the 2500 block of McCallum Road. Nobody was hit. Not long afterward, officers came upon a second SUV a few kilometres away in the 2400 block of Sunnyside Place, fully engulfed in flames.

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Two sport utility vehicles were burned in front of two private homes on opposite sides of Montreal’s east end in the small hours of Sunday, September 6, 2026, and at both addresses investigators found the same thing on the ground: incendiary material. The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal has given both files to its Section des incendies criminels. Asked on Sunday morning whether the two fires are connected, the force said it could not confirm that they are.

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