Gangland Files

Quebec’s Sûreté du Québec asset-recovery unit has seized over 730 kilograms of lidocaine and frozen eight buildings worth more than $6 million in coordinated raids across six Montreal-region sites, targeting the illegal trade in cocaine-cutting agents.

A four-year international manhunt has ended with the arrest of Wolfpack associate Denis Ivziku in Cancún, Mexico — the final fugitive from the RCMP’s massive Project Divergent drug-and-weapons investigation.

Peel Regional Police have arrested 17 men tied to the violent “For Brothers” network that extorted, firebombed, and shot at South Asian business owners across Peel — laying 106 charges in one of the region’s largest organized-crime sweeps.

Three men in their 50s have been charged with first-degree murder in the 2022 daylight shooting of a man at a Saint-Léonard car wash, a long-suspected organized-crime killing that took Montreal’s SPVM four years to crack.

Toronto police have arrested a man and woman after a 23-year-old woman was allegedly trafficked for sexual services through deception and coercion, and are now seeking additional possible victims.