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Impaired-Driving Probes and Drug Raids Across Alberta, Ontario and Manitoba

This weekend’s multi-province police operations yielded cocaine and firearms seizures, impaired-driving charges, trafficking indictments, bail-revocation hearings.

On the left, debris remains on 58th Ave. SW following a crash that damaged more than a half-dozen vehicles early Friday morning. Court documents show the driver charged in that incident is the same man who was behind the wheel of a December 2024 crash (right) that claimed the life of a passenger and injured another.
The Calgary Courts Centre on May 28, 2025.
Edmonton police and peace officers test vehicle exhaust noise at the NAIT Souch Campus on May 20, 2023. This was an amnesty event so drivers could learn more about the modifications to their cars, trucks and motorcycles and how they measure up to bylaw enforcement standards.
MRC des Collines-de-l'Outaouais police.

Overview

  • Alberta RCMP charged a 23-year-old Edmonton woman with impaired driving causing death and dangerous operation causing death after she allegedly drove the wrong way on Anthony Henday Drive and triggered a fatal crash.
  • In Calgary, prosecutors applied to revoke bail for a 19-year-old man already facing an impaired-driving death charge after he fled a traffic stop and crashed into multiple parked vehicles.
  • Winnipeg police seized an unloaded 12-gauge shotgun and about 20 grams of cocaine and arrested a 27-year-old woman at the scene of an Aug. 10 collision, while a separate Air1-assisted traffic stop netted two men, a loaded .45-calibre handgun and several grams of cocaine and crack.
  • Ontario Provincial Police charged three people after responding to a rural church break-in near West Elgin, laying counts that include impaired driving, assaulting and resisting officers, break-and-enter and possession of cocaine.
  • Brantford Police’s early-August raids uncovered more than 150 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of $5 million, resulting in charges of importing, trafficking and conspiracy.