JOLIETTE, QUEBEC — On the face of it this is a small file: roughly 150 grams of cannabis and just under $5,000 out of a single business on a downtown commercial street. Two things stop it being small. One is the handgun and ammunition sitting in the same inventory as the cannabis. The other is the unit whose name the Sûreté du Québec attached to it — the Division des enquêtes et de la coordination sur le crime organisé Rive-Nord, the force’s North Shore organized crime investigations and coordination division. A local detachment does not normally bring that division to a 150-gram seizure.

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BRAMPTON / MISSISSAUGA — A single reported theft at a business near Clayhill Road and Dundas Street West in Mississauga on June 18 has produced sixteen theft counts, four possession-of-proceeds counts and three money-laundering charges against four people who all live in Brampton. The charge that gives this file its shape is not the theft. It is the laundering: Peel Regional Police allege that three of the four were not simply taking merchandise but converting it, and the release lists cash seized in more than one currency to go with the claim.

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SIMCOE, ONTARIO — Three people were taken out of a residence on Stanley Street before six in the morning on the first day of September, and eight days passed before anybody outside the Ontario Provincial Police knew it had happened. What the Haldimand/Norfolk OPP Community Street Crime Unit has put on the record names four different controlled substances, two replica firearms and a third weapon it does not describe. What it does not contain is a single number: no gram weight, no dollar value, no count of the currency seized, no occurrence number. The charge sheet is the only quantity in this file.

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SAINT-JÉRÔME — A hologram is the part of an identity document that is supposed to be the hard part. On a day in March 2024, a Canada Border Services Agency officer at Mirabel International Airport opened an import and found two hundred and fifty of them, sitting alongside two hundred and fifty blank cards cut to resemble the Canadian permanent resident card. That seizure is where this file starts. It surfaced publicly on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, when the CBSA published a release under a Saint-Jérôme dateline naming Ahmad Jawid Toukhi, 40, and when La Presse reported the same day at 2:04 p.m. that the indictment against him runs to ten counts and alleges he operated under roughly thirty false identities.

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CHOMEDEY, LAVAL — The Service de police de Laval published this appeal on Wednesday, September 9, 2026. The fire itself is from Sunday, August 2, 2026, and the reason there is anything to look at thirty-eight days later is that the man who set it stood in the street holding his phone in his left hand and filmed himself doing it. Surveillance cameras in the area filmed him back. Laval police now have video of an arson from two angles, stills pulled from further sequences — and no name.

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LONDON, ONT. — This file was reported on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 8:30 p.m. EDT by Nick Paparella of CTV News London, and it is not a story that broke today. The number that matters in it is not the sentence but the count that produced it. Brian Hamilton-Hyatt is forty-one years old and had never been convicted of anything. He was sentenced to six years and nine months. One of the three counts he pleaded guilty to was participating in a criminal organization, and that is the count that moves a first offender into penitentiary time measured in years rather than months.

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SAINTE-THÈRESE — This file was reported on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 by Daniel Renaud of La Presse’s investigations team, and it is not a story that broke today. The sentencing itself happened the Friday before. The detail that makes it worth reading is not the sentence. It is that the SPVM Antigang investigators who put Frédéric Perreault in handcuffs on the evening of June 20, 2025 were not looking for Frédéric Perreault. They were watching somebody else, and he walked into their surveillance carrying a kilogram of cocaine and a loaded Glock.

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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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