The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has shattered an alleged criminal conspiracy that moved millions of dollars in cocaine and methamphetamine over the border.
According to the CBSA, Operation Meridian was a targeted 60-day operation in Southern Ontario. Officials said the goal was to disrupt the import and export of illicit narcotics through commercial channels at ports of entry across Southern Ontario.
No arrest would be complete without Singhs.
Venezuela has become a major launchpad for huge volumes of cocaine shipped to West Africa, where jihadists are helping traffic it to Europe in record quantities.
Corrupt military officers and drug gangs smuggle shipments by light aircraft, fishing boats, semi-submersible vessels and freighters heading east, international law-enforcement officials have said publicly. The cocaine flows to West Africa, where an informal network of jihadist-linked smugglers and their allies then move the drug north to feed high and rising demand in Europe.
“Cocaine in the 1980s is not the same as the one we see today,” said Jesus Romero, a retired U.S. military intelligence officer. “There are direct linkages to terrorist organizations to support their cause.”
A child and family therapist tried to help two moms deal with two difficult Indigenous foster children who’d survived years of early trauma – but her advice never included dressing them in onesie pyjamas and zip-tying them shut.
It was like a ghost sighting. And the FBI agents had to be sure they weren’t mistaken.
The investigators, conducting surveillance near a Starbucks in Mexico City on Jan. 22, 2024, had just seen two men walk in.
One of them, a hulking six-foot-three-inch figure, may just have been the ghost they’d been hunting.
BRITISH COLUMBIA — Vancouver police say they have seized a grenade launcher, four guns, and nearly 500 grams of fentanyl and other hard drugs from a fortified Downtown Eastside rooming house that was allegedly feeding a synthetic opioid supply line through the city’s most drug-ravaged blocks.
“Task Force Barrage has come to an end, but our work to curb violence and disrupt organized crime in the Downtown Eastside continues,” Sergeant Steve Addison said, adding “the proliferation of violence and weapons in some residential buildings continues to put the neighbourhood at risk.”
That neighborhood is permanently at risk. I used to live there a lifetime ago.
VANCOUVER — In an extraordinary civil forfeiture action, the B.C. government is seeking to permanently seize a late-model Mercedes from a prominent Vancouver real estate agent, alleging the luxury sedan was used as an instrument in a predatory sex crime — including luring and assaulting a vulnerable 15-year-old girl living in a provincial care home — according to court filings.
CALI, Colombia—They see themselves as the cowboys of the drug trade, highly experienced crews that ferry narcotics on small boats across the open seas, running on a mix of bravado, skill and dreams of a massive payday.
Now, designated as terrorists by the Trump administration, they face not only the perils of a capricious sea but the new danger of getting blown out of the water by the U.S. military. The trade’s unofficial motto—“deliver or die”—has never rung so true.
Three men who have manned these drug boats, known as “go fasts,” spoke to The Wall Street Journal, describing a once little-known but essential part of the narcotics trade that is now in President Trump’s sights.
USA SEEMS KEEN ON ATTACKING VENEZUELA: ANOTHER VENEZUELAN BOAT WHICH USA CLAIMS TO BE CARRYING OUT NARCO-TERRORISM DESTROYED IN EASTERN PACIFIC⚡️
Till now 20 boats have been destroyed & 76 people killed in American strikes.#Venezuela #Caracas #Cuba #Colombia #Trump pic.twitter.com/pCqkr1295w
— Barbarik (@Sunny_000S) November 17, 2025
Rolan Sokolovski was spiralling.
At 11:27 a.m. on Aug. 15, 2024, the Toronto diamond dealer messaged customer service for the popular cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin.
“I can’t use my account that has millions of dollars in it,” he wrote. He demanded a response.
As the search continues for Ryan Wedding, the Canadian former Olympian accused of running an international drug empire, new details are revealing how prosecutors believe he has been keeping his profits off the books.
In a 54-page indictment unsealed last week, the U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Wedding is still conducting his alleged criminal enterprise while on the run from authorities and using cryptocurrency to launder the profits—which total more than US$1 billion a year.
On trial for second-degree murder, the Regent Park rapper known as Big Rax is telling the jury that he was afraid for his life.
In fact, he said “I was scared for my life” at least half a dozen times.
Looks like he’s getting his life together.
VANCOUVER — In a milestone that is staggering for its rarity in a jurisdiction regarded as a global nexus of Chinese transnational money laundering that facilitates fentanyl trafficking for Mexican and Iranian gangs, British Columbia’s anti-gang unit has finally secured its first money laundering sentencing in a decade.
The daughter of slain billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman has purchased the vacant lot in North York that held the house where her parents were murdered. A group of neighbours are concerned it will become a memorial park.
A spokesperson for Sherman daughter Alexandra Krawczyk said no decision has been made on what to do with the half-acre lot.
“It is (Krawczyk’s) desire to work collaboratively with neighbours on Old Colony Road to do something with the property that will be respectful of her parents’ legacy and be in keeping with the neighbourhood,” says a spokesperson for Krawczyk.
Prosecutors in New York said they have dismantled a “sophisticated ‘porch pirate’ criminal organization” that allegedly stole FedEx packages containing electronic devices.
Fourteen people have been indicted for enterprise corruption and other charges in connection with the alleged theft ring, the Suffolk County Prosecutor’s Office announced on Monday.
AI or real? You decide!
The ULTIMATE Porch Pirate Cinnamon Challenge! pic.twitter.com/sxUWUKJrtk
— Dilemma (@AmericanDilemna) November 7, 2025
Last week, Bethany MaGee, 26, did what countless other women in Chicago do: she got on the CTA’s Blue Line to travel across the city. Unfortunately, so did Lawrence Reed, a 50-year-old career criminal with at least 72 prior arrests. Initial reports said Reed was arrested 22 times, then 49 times. Regardless, he should not have been free to roam the streets of Chicago, and now an innocent woman is in the hospital fighting for her life.
There were 188 break-and-enters in Mississauga and Brampton over the last 31 days.
According to Peel Regional Police data, incidents occurred from Oct. 23 to Nov. 23.
Both cities saw their fair share of crimes related to break-ins, with 117 of the incidents happening in Mississauga and the other 71 in Brampton.
h/t Mauser
