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Ontario police drug enforcement continues expands
Throughout From early June and July through early August 2026 the Ontario Provincial Police and municipal forces carried out partners sustained a wave of coordinated raids and highway stops targeting cocaine, methamphetamine, firearms and related financial crimes. Early drug‑related operations across the province. Initial raids on June 4 in Caledon, Mississauga, Mississauga and on Couchiching First Nation, Nation resulted in six arrests and seizures of cocaine and cash, laying the groundwork for later actions. Subsequent incidents in Sarnia and Barrie were followed by highway interceptions that (June 25) uncovered hundreds of grams of cocaine, a disguised taser and a firearm discharged in a restaurant. Highway 17 traffic stops on June 24‑26 seized cocaine, methamphetamine, a digital scale and cash, and produced drug‑impaired‑driving charges, charges. The OPP also pursued related property crimes, charging a Haliburton Highlands suspect with break‑and‑enter theft (June 24) and a driver in East Algoma with drug‑impaired driving (June 25). July 7 saw OPP arrests in Lambton County for trafficking multiple opioids and additional weapon seizures. On 15 firearms, while a Brighton search yielded stolen tools and a vehicle. Stratford Police’s Project Carlos concluded on July West Grey Police dismantled 11 with six arrests and $37,000‑worth of meth, fentanyl, cocaine, crack and a crossbow, highlighting inter‑agency collaboration. West Grey’s counterfeit‑money ring that also involved was dismantled on July 15, adding cocaine, an imitation BB handgun and a stolen motorcycle, while a Burlington stop by Hamilton motorcycle to the charges. Halton Regional Police yielded fentanyl, announced a loaded handgun and cash linked to trafficking. The largest action, Project Bay, unfolded from 25 June to 20 July. Joint searches in Windsor, Corunna, LaSalle, Brampton, Kleinburg, Markham, Caledon and surrounding areas uncovered roughly 1.7 tonnes of narcotics – about 973 kg $5 million seizure of cocaine, 660 20 kg of methamphetamine cocaine and 49 273 kg of opium – valued at over $139 million, together with 17 firearms (including an anti‑tank rifle), high‑end jewellery, cash, money‑counting machines and electronic devices. Twenty‑one arrests were made, thirteen of the suspects were identified as South Asian, and two Windsor suspects remain at large. On 28 July meth in Project Jester, the largest meth bust in its history. A final OPP announced further charges involving impaired driving, cocaine trafficking and weapons offences on Highway 401 east of London, as well as arson and vehicle‑theft charges linked to incidents RIDE checkpoint in Finch and North Stormont. The investigation continued Hastings on 29 July when OPP officers from the North East Region Community Street Crime Unit, assisted by the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service, executed a search warrant at August 2 seized cocaine, fentanyl, a residence prohibited weapon and cash, resulting in Kapuskasing. Two individuals were arrested without incident; police seized approximately 15 g four trafficking arrests, while earlier July 26 highway stops led to stunt‑driving charges. The series of suspected fentanyl raids, highway interceptions, and 31 g of suspected cocaine, valued at about $10,600, along with $3,000 in cash, cellular phones multi‑jurisdictional stings underscores an ongoing, province‑wide effort to disrupt drug trafficking, related firearms offenses and drug‑trafficking paraphernalia. dangerous driving.