A London, Ontario court is weighing a house-arrest sentence for a father whose home was searched in July 2024, when city police seized 286 kilograms of cannabis bud, the largest residential cannabis seizure in the force's history. The stash was found with other drugs after officers followed a tip that he was selling cocaine.
🇨🇦 London, Ontario · Canada
A London, Ontario court is weighing a house-arrest sentence for a father whose home was searched by city police on 16 July 2024.[1]
London police seized 286 kilograms of cannabis bud and other drugs when they searched the man’s London home.[1] The newspaper describes the seizure as the largest residential cannabis seizure in London police history.[1]
Charlottetown interim police chief Darren MacDougall pleaded guilty and paid a $200 fine for buying cannabis at the unregulated Mniku Trading Post on Abegweit First Nation in July 2025. The RCMP ticketed him about a year later during a larger investigation, and city officials say they remain confident in his leadership.
Shane Hendry, 30, received 122 days, treated as already served, plus a year of probation, for cannabis possession for distribution and resisting police after a Dieppe traffic stop. Officers reported two small bags of cannabis and $311,000 in cash; a warrant remains for the driver, Kyle Winston Rouse.
Alaaddin Koc, 56, of Windsor, Ontario, was sentenced on 21 September 2026 to one year in prison for trying to take about 31 kilograms of cannabis from Vancouver International Airport to London's Heathrow in October 2024. He pleaded guilty in July 2026; the court said credit for time served left 251 days to serve, and he was also given a lifetime firearms prohibition.
Montreal police raided six Cannabis Culture dispensaries on 16 December 2016, arresting ten people including Marc Emery and seizing about 18 kg of cannabis. Emery pleaded guilty to trafficking in May 2018 and was fined $5,000 after the other charges were dropped.