Four Calgary-area men were charged with a combined 36 offences on 27 August 2026 after an RCMP investigation into what police described as a Calgary-based criminal network centred around a multimillion-dollar contraband tobacco trafficking operation.[1][2] Jason Douglas Pereira, 44, of Airdrie and Jonathan Patrick Roach, 42, of Calgary were charged with ten offences each, while Brock Anthony MacQuarrie, 41, and David Shoa Guan, 52, of Calgary were charged with eight each.[1] Pereira, MacQuarrie and Guan were arrested on 1 September and Roach on 3 September, and all four were scheduled to appear in the Alberta Court of Justice in Calgary on 19 October 2026.[1]

Officers from the RCMP Federal Policing Northwest Region’s Integrated Money Laundering Investigative Team executed seven search warrants in Calgary and Airdrie.[1] They seized more than $3 million in contraband tobacco, more than 88 kilograms of unstamped illicit cannabis and cannabis byproducts, and nearly 10 kilograms of other illicit drugs including psilocybin, MDMA, DMT and LSD.[1][3] Officers also seized nearly $170,000 in cash and more than $300,000 in precious metals, luxury goods and a high-value vehicle.[1][3]

CityNews Calgary reported the four were arrested in early September.[3] The investigation involved the Calgary Police Service, the Forensic Accounting Management Group, the Canada Revenue Agency, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada and the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission.[1]