A Montreal Narco Network Busted For Allegedly Smuggling Super Fentanyl Into America Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper, An elite Montreal-based narco network allegedly exported carfentanil and next-generation synthetic opioids 100 times deadlier than fentanyl to American consumers via the dark web , leading to the arrest of four yesterday, after 13 months of joint surveillance by U.S. federal ag...
A Montreal Narco Network Busted For Allegedly Smuggling Super Fentanyl Into America Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper, An elite Montreal-based narco network allegedly exported carfentanil and next-generation synthetic opioids 100 times deadlier than fentanyl to American consumers via the dark web , leading to the arrest of four yesterday, after 13 months of joint surveillance by U.S. federal agencies and Quebec police, and a seizure of more than 600,000 tablets of synthetic drugs in December. The four suspects charged are reportedly connected, through their alleged street gang affiliate, to the Wolfpack Alliance — a network tied by DEA sources to a British Columbia fentanyl superlab, and by Canadian law enforcement and expert sources to Canadian outlaw motorcycle gangs, Iranian organized crime, and the Sinaloa Cartel . On Wednesday, Quebec’s ENRCO — the unit mandated specifically to target organized crime leadership — arrested four residents of Montreal’s South Shore suburbs on charges connected to a network that had been, for more than a year, allegedly manufacturing and exporting carfentanil and industrial quantities of substances newer and deadlier than fentanyl to consumers in the United States . The investigation was conducted jointly with U.S. Homeland Security Investigations and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The four suspects are: Darren McAlpine, of Delson; Geneva Fournier, of Châteauguay; and Wanya Nathan Ellis and Cheyanne Buchanan-Dennis, both of Sainte-Catherine. All four municipalities sit in the region directly south of the Montreal Island. They appeared by videoconference before a judge at the Longueuil courthouse and face charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking, drug trafficking, and possession of a prohibited weapon. The arrests followed searches executed on December 17, 2025, at addresses in Châteauguay and Sainte-Catherine. No U.S. federal charges have been publicly announced. The December searches produced a seizure that rea...
Each week we bring you insights into one of Asia’s most dynamic economies. If you haven’t yet, please sign up here . This week, Ramsay Al-Rikabi and Claire Jiao weigh the tricky decisions facing Southeast Asian leaders after the US Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s tariff plans, Ram Anand ventures out on a durian trail for intrepid travelers in Malaysia, and Yongchang Chin finds inner...
Each week we bring you insights into one of Asia’s most dynamic economies. If you haven’t yet, please sign up here . This week, Ramsay Al-Rikabi and Claire Jiao weigh the tricky decisions facing Southeast Asian leaders after the US Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s tariff plans, Ram Anand ventures out on a durian trail for intrepid travelers in Malaysia, and Yongchang Chin finds inner calm at a premium teahouse. To Renegotiate, or Not? Donald Trump is fighting his tariff war on multiple fronts simultaneously. That includes the home front, where he lost a key battle at the Supreme Court over whether he has the power to tariff friend and foe alike in an instant and on a whim. The ramifications are still unclear. Indeed, it was met almost universally with that squishy and unwelcome word that defined the state of the global economy after he returned to the White House a little over a year ago. “The key word, really, is uncertainty,” Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong told reporters after the decision was handed down. Southeast Asian nations were quick to come to deals with Trump — as were Japan, South Korea, the UK and European Union. It’s worth remembering that the main cudgel Trump used — threats of tariffs well into the 40% range — has now been taken out of his hands. So what happens next? Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia all signed deals (or frameworks for deals), at times giving away trade concessions that only caused political headaches at home. The Trump administration, not surprisingly, has projected confidence that it can keep these deals in line , even as the president must wait months for trade investigations to finish before he can rearm with new tariff authority. “The good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made,” Trump said in his State of the Union address, “knowing that the legal power that I, as president, have to make a new deal, could be far worse for t...
K-pop superstar G-Dragon ignited the ire of Chinese netizens with his choice of “Lunar New Year” greetings during a recent performance in Dubai. His reported act of liking a post that supported his terminology afterwards was interpreted as a provocative stance. The controversy emerged on February 17, coinciding with the first day of Chinese New Year. The KRAZY Super Concert, headlined by G-Dragon,...
K-pop superstar G-Dragon ignited the ire of Chinese netizens with his choice of “Lunar New Year” greetings during a recent performance in Dubai. His reported act of liking a post that supported his terminology afterwards was interpreted as a provocative stance. The controversy emerged on February 17, coinciding with the first day of Chinese New Year. The KRAZY Super Concert, headlined by G-Dragon, featured an array of K-pop artists and pop singers from across Asia, including Indonesian singer...
Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan “strategic depth” in its rivalry with India. What’s gone wrong? Pakistan carried out air strikes on Afghanistan’s major cities overnight, officials in Islamabad and Kabul said on Friday, escalating months of border clashes betwe...
Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan “strategic depth” in its rivalry with India. What’s gone wrong? Pakistan carried out air strikes on Afghanistan’s major cities overnight, officials in Islamabad and Kabul said on Friday, escalating months of border clashes between the Islamic neighbours. The air and ground strikes, which hit Taliban military posts,...