Ontario Police Bust $139 Million Drug Ring That Used Legit Trucking Companies to Move Cocaine Across the Border

A Broker-Style Smuggling Operation Hiding in Plain Sight

Canadian and American law enforcement just exposed a drug trafficking network that didn't rely on secret tunnels or drop planes. It used trucks. Legal, licensed, commercial trucks, moving through normal supply chains, with drivers who knew exactly what they were hauling.

The investigation, called Project Bay, started with Windsor Police in January 2025. The Canada Border Services Agency joined a month later. By the time it wrapped, the case pulled in the Ontario Provincial Police, Toronto Police Service, Peel Regional Police, U.S. Homeland Security Investigations and the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to the OPP and reporting from AM800 and FreightWaves.

The haul: roughly 973 kilograms of suspected cocaine, 660 kilograms of suspected methamphetamine and 49 kilograms of opium, per the OPP's own release, carried by Saugeen Times. Street value, north of $139 million. Officials are calling it one of the most significant single-case drug seizures in Ontario's history by weight.

How the Scheme Worked

Investigators say the network operated like a freight broker, except instead of legitimate loads it was arranging illegal ones. Drivers were recruited to knowingly smuggle drugs inside otherwise normal commercial shipments, according to the OPP. This wasn't cartel trucks running dark routes. It was drugs riding inside the same logistics network that moves everyday consumer goods across the U.S.-Canada border.

Acting Detective Superintendent Andy Bradford of the OPP's Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau put it plainly: the case shows agencies on both sides of the border "working together effectively to detect and disrupt criminal activity." He also flagged the firearms haul as a red flag on its own, noting the persistent link between drug trafficking and violence.

One weapon stood out. Bradford described a Lahti L-39, a .50-caliber anti-tank rifle, as "extremely rare" military ordnance with "no legitimate civilian application." Its presence in the hands of drug traffickers, he said, is "a concerning public safety issue." In total, 17 firearms were recovered alongside the drugs, cash and other property.

The Charges

Search warrants went out in three waves: 18 warrants executed June 25 across Windsor, Corunna, LaSalle, Brampton and Kleinburg; two more July 14 in Markham and Caledon; and two final warrants July 20 in Brampton, according to the OPP timeline reported by Saugeen Times and FreightWaves.

Twenty-one people face 102 charges under the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Nineteen have been arrested; two remain outstanding with warrants issued, per the OPP.

Among those named by Insauga, nine of the accused are Brampton residents. Gagandip Thindal, 27, faces 10 charges including conspiracy to import cocaine and multiple firearm offenses; he was remanded into custody. Simranjit Singh, 32, faces 12 charges including importing and trafficking cocaine; also remanded. Others, including Jatinderpal Singh, 39, and Jasvinder Sohi, 55, face conspiracy charges and were released on undertakings. Tarminder Singh, 19, faces nine charges including possession of proceeds of crime and trafficking cocaine, heroin and opium, and was remanded into custody.

These are charges, not convictions. Every one of the accused is presumed innocent unless and until a court says otherwise.

Police Admit This Isn't Over

Windsor Police Chief Jason Crowley didn't pretend this was a knockout blow. "These are not dismantling entire networks," he said, according to AM800. "The networks run very deep... this investigation may be at conclusion now but it does lead to other criminal organizations."

Crowley also pushed back on any notion that Windsor has a unique problem. Organized crime infiltrating legitimate industry, he said, "runs very deep" everywhere, and it's "disturbing."

The OPP's Provincial Asset Forfeiture Unit is now investigating proceeds-of-crime offenses tied to the network and working to seize offense-related property, according to the OPP's release. Cocaine seized in Canada is never domestically produced, per the OPP, meaning every kilogram traces back to an international trafficking pipeline that this bust only partially exposed.

Gagandip Thindal is scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Toronto on July 27. Authorities have not disclosed how many other trucking operations may be used the same way or how much of this supply chain is still running.