Firearms Trafficking

• No jail time for last of 5 men charged in major Metro Vancouver gun trafficking bust

  The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit seized a cache of handguns, a rifle, prohibited gun parts, ammunition, drugs and money in raids in a 2023 operation. 

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  Jan 15, 2025
  
• Man suspected of trafficking guns through the mail sought by Edmonton police

  On Tuesday, Jan. 16, an unknown man reportedly went to a Canada Post outlet in Fort McMurray and mailed what police said was a restricted firearm to an address in Edmonton.

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  Mar 26, 2024
  
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• Regina police lay charges in 4-month firearm trafficking investigation

  Regina police have laid charges following a four-month firearms trafficking investigation that resulted in nine people being charged, with more arrests expected.

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  Nov 30, 2023
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• Calgary police execute search warrants in partnership with Montreal police agency

  Project Reproduction is a nationwide investigation into the manufacturing and trafficking of privately-made firearms. It led to the execution of four search warrants in Calgary.

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  Jun 21, 2023
• Guns seized, 5 men charged in major Lower Mainland firearms trafficking probe

  B.C. police say a trafficking investigation netted handguns, a rifle, prohibited gun parts and magazines, body armour, suspected fentanyl and a kilogram of suspected cocaine. 

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  Mar 8, 2023
• 2 Quebec men charged with firearms trafficking after RCMP seize massive cache

  The alleged discovery of extreme right-wing material caught the attention of Quebec's public security minister who said the threat of far-right groups in the province is very high.

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  Mar 3, 2023
• 4 people charged in relation to firearm trafficking: Cochrane RCMP

  Mounties responded to ten break-and-enters in the Gleneagles neighbourhood in Cochrane and two armed robberies in Rocky View County in September.

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  Nov 9, 2022
• Edmonton police charge Devon, Alta., woman for allegedly operating as ‘straw buyer’

  A 23-year-old Devon, Alta., woman has been charged with several firearms-related offences as a result of a gun trafficking investigation by the Edmonton Police Service. 

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  Sep 1, 2022
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• 68 charges laid against Alberta man accused of firearms trafficking, fraud

  Police allege a 33-year-old Vegreville man was able to fraudulently buy 17 firearms by assuming the identity of an Edmonton man and using his firearms licence.

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  Jun 1, 2022
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• Edmonton man charged with trafficking firearms after straw purchasing investigation

  Amid an increase in gun violence, Edmonton police say a local man has been arrested and accused of buying firearms legally and then re-selling them on the black market.

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  Mar 28, 2022