72,000 cannabis plants seized in Tyendinaga raids, ten charged
Police raided four illicit cannabis production sites on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory on 23 and 24 September 2025, seizing more than 72,000 plants worth over $122 million with three firearms. Ten people were charged after an investigation into organized networks operating on the territory since April.
Officers from the Ontario Provincial Police Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau
and the Tyendinaga Police Service, with other police branches and Canada
Border Services, executed search warrants on 23 and 24 September 2025 at four
illicit cannabis production sites on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.[1][2]
Police seized more than 72,000 illicit cannabis plants with an estimated value
above $122 million, plus three firearms, ammunition and other items.[1][2]Officers also stopped an unlawful diversion of water from the Bay of Quinte to
the sites and seized offence-related property valued at about $530,000.[2]
Ten people, six of them not members of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, were
arrested and charged under the Criminal Code and the Cannabis Act.[1][2]They
were released and ordered to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in
Belleville on 5 November 2025.[2]Police said the sites were controlled by
non-Indigenous organized criminal networks aided by a limited number of
community members, after an investigation begun in April 2025.[1][2]
Case data
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City police in Saint-Jérôme executed two search warrants on the morning of 9 November 2026 in the Lafontaine sector, targeting a 59-year-old man in an investigation into suspected cocaine trafficking and illicit cannabis distribution. About ten officers took part and the operation was still under way, with the seizure tally and any charges to follow.
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