True Patriot Love - July 20, 2026


TPL Media Crime Update： Drug Busts Across The Nation


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00:00:00.000 The big thing that sticks out. These are things that have been busted. These are things that they've caught. What haven't they caught? How much actual drugs are floating through Canada right now?
00:00:11.000 Well, I'll tell you what. Let's take a look.
00:00:18.080 All right. Thanks for joining us. This is TPL Media. I'm Mike.
00:00:21.000 Well, we used to think about organized crime as a gang controlling a neighborhood.
00:00:26.420 But what happens when the alleged leader is sitting in prison overseas?
00:00:32.380 The victim is in Canada.
00:00:34.100 The instructions travel through encrypted communications.
00:00:36.660 The money crosses borders, and the person carrying out the crime may be a local recruit.
00:00:42.540 Crime is globalized.
00:00:43.920 Has Canadian policing kept up?
00:00:45.880 Brady Wedham joins me today for the update on our crime report,
00:00:50.420 Something you'll find here every single week on TPL Media.
00:00:53.080 Thanks, Brady.
00:00:53.660 Yeah, yet again, I'm here to talk about crime.
00:00:56.340 Well, you know what?
00:00:57.100 It's funny, but when you have a passion for something,
00:00:59.360 you really should stick with it.
00:01:00.640 That's a former life, but you know what?
00:01:02.560 We'll dip into a bit of that during this episode.
00:01:05.300 Well, there's a lot going on in this nation this week,
00:01:08.100 and a lot of it has to do with what's transpiring with organized crime.
00:01:13.260 One of them is an amazing story about drug trafficking
00:01:18.980 and a super amount of drugs.
00:01:21.900 But that's not enough.
00:01:23.000 We had two of those in one week.
00:01:24.860 Yeah, we just finished off celebrating Canada Day
00:01:27.620 and the wonderful things that make Canada Canada.
00:01:30.700 And in the meantime, behind that,
00:01:32.340 there was almost 1,000 kilos of drugs
00:01:35.240 busted across this country in one week.
00:01:37.500 63-year-old Brampton resident Guramrit King Sidhu
00:01:41.960 has been sentenced to 20 years
00:01:43.940 in a U.S. federal prison this week.
00:01:45.720 He pled guilty to operating
00:01:47.100 a sophisticated cross-border trafficking network.
00:01:50.160 Authorities say SUDU coordinated Canadian long-haul truck drivers
00:01:53.360 to transport large quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine
00:01:57.300 from Los Angeles, supplied from Mexico into Canada,
00:02:00.960 using major commercial border crossings.
00:02:04.000 He got 20 years, that's 240 months, in federal prison,
00:02:07.800 and he was extradited from Toronto to California in October of 2024,
00:02:13.040 and he's likely going to be deported to Canada
00:02:16.480 after serving a sentence.
00:02:18.000 He is eligible to request a transfer to a Canadian prison
00:02:21.260 after serving 10 years in the U.S.
00:02:23.280 Let me give you the scale of this operation.
00:02:25.580 In just one month during 2022, investigators say
00:02:28.420 SEDU coordinated 523 kilograms of methamphetamine,
00:02:32.780 347 kilograms of cocaine on eight separate cross-border shipments.
00:02:38.140 Now, that was estimated at about 15 to 17 million,
00:02:42.660 and authorities intercepted all of the shipments
00:02:45.160 before they reached their destination.
00:02:46.480 One incident involved an 80-kilogram shipment of cocaine that he actually handled himself out of a trucking yard in Brampton.
00:02:55.500 Now, by the way, here's how the drugs entered Canada through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, Peace Bridge,
00:03:01.680 and Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron and Point Edward there, Mexico, Los Angeles, and then Canadian Trucking Network into Ontario.
00:03:09.780 Here's my thinking.
00:03:10.800 once you owe a cartel 15 to 17 million dollars on lost shipments of drugs you need to catch up
00:03:20.520 and you need to catch up quickly or your life has ended and the life of many of your friends
00:03:26.360 and family likely i think what happened here and i would be very interested to find out if this was
00:03:32.160 the case i think that this is one of those things where he could not stop and would not stop the
00:03:39.700 Drugs were coming into Canada no matter what.
00:03:41.900 And after losing eight shipments,
00:03:44.280 I would imagine there was a price on his head
00:03:47.100 that he was trying to get at him.
00:03:48.640 There's definitely going to be issues that arise from that.
00:03:50.660 And I agree with you.
00:03:52.720 There's probably some sort of debt that he was chasing.
00:03:54.960 Obviously, the business started to get a little bit more extreme each time.
00:03:59.040 The one thing that stands out, though, Mike,
00:04:01.740 when we heard about the tariffs being launched from the U.S. to Canada
00:04:06.220 and when Donald Trump ended up taking his second term
00:04:10.180 and he got into the office,
00:04:11.420 we heard a lot about conversations about the U.S. and Canada.
00:04:14.660 One, Canada's taking advantage of us, et cetera, et cetera,
00:04:17.340 but also the one thing that we did really hear about
00:04:19.520 is that Canada's supplying the U.S. with drugs.
00:04:22.240 Yeah, this doesn't sound like that,
00:04:24.800 and this is not the only one this week.
00:04:26.720 In Montreal, you pointed out another port bust.
00:04:30.300 Yeah, the Montreal Gazette reported that in St. Sevier,
00:04:33.620 I could be burying that, but hopefully I'm not,
00:04:35.640 There was three arrested, 67 kilos of cocaine, $115,000 worth of cash.
00:04:40.400 There was firearms and cell phones also confiscated.
00:04:43.240 The ages of these people, 72, 42, and 50.
00:04:46.340 Wow, that's quite a range, actually.
00:04:47.740 Yeah, that's a pretty big range.
00:04:49.620 So that's between that and this, that's almost 1,000 kilos.
00:04:54.220 And they've already said neither of those.
00:04:56.620 Well, I mean, admittedly, these are all in the past mostly,
00:05:01.020 but the charges on this guy, yeah.
00:05:03.000 We're looking at over 1,000 kilos of drugs in just these two cases.
00:05:08.020 Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
00:05:08.700 This week it has been reported that there's 1,000 kilos that have been busted
00:05:11.900 of different drugs inside of this country.
00:05:14.560 So if that's just in one week with two separate instances over different times,
00:05:18.380 so like you said, this goes back a little bit farther.
00:05:21.040 This is fresh.
00:05:22.780 What stands out to me is not only that comment about the U.S.
00:05:27.300 saying that we're the ones delivering drugs.
00:05:29.320 I think this is a two-way street if you were to ask my opinion.
00:05:32.640 the big thing that sticks out these are things that have been busted these are things that
00:05:37.760 they've caught what haven't they caught how much actual drugs are floating through canada right
00:05:44.200 now well uh i'll tell you what let's take a look 4.5 million trucks on the road in canada 1.5
00:05:51.180 million shipping containers and 1.5 million rail cars cs the the cbsa has an impossible task
00:06:01.100 when we have this much in the way of shipping
00:06:03.680 and we've become such a hub.
00:06:05.740 In an earlier show we did this week,
00:06:07.520 we talked about how the trucking industry
00:06:10.620 is at an all-time high,
00:06:13.100 warehousing is at an all-time high.
00:06:15.140 If there was ever a moment to bury drugs
00:06:17.980 in the fabric of this country through trucking,
00:06:20.520 this would be the moment.
00:06:22.160 It's wild to me that Canada uses so much drugs.
00:06:25.660 I don't think we do.
00:06:26.920 I can't, like, now mind you,
00:06:28.780 If you go to cities like, you know, certain parts of, like, Brantford, Ontario, Brandon, Manitoba, not just all start with a BRA, but these different communities, you can see that there's a lot of drug use going on.
00:06:41.960 Yeah, I don't see a lot of cocaine use on the streets, though.
00:06:45.260 You know, that's all fentanyl.
00:06:47.360 Unless they're shooting it, yeah, you're not seeing that.
00:06:49.400 Meth is something you do, but you're right.
00:06:52.240 I think that the drug activity in Canada probably is larger than most people think.
00:06:58.680 Yeah.
00:06:58.780 it is and i i do have a feeling that you know most drug addicts when you've gone down the path of
00:07:04.540 you've basically turned into a zombie a walking zombie you'll touch anything that gets put in
00:07:08.860 front of you right right it doesn't matter what it is you just it's up or down or whatever it is
00:07:13.500 you're going to escape the moment you're you're so far removed from you know where you should be
00:07:19.980 and you're where i guess you wanted to be and yeah it's very hard to find a drug addict that
00:07:25.340 won't just do anything that's put in front of them all right what else we have in the books this week
00:07:29.180 so yeah we've got a lot mike extortion is becoming an organized industry and we've talked about
00:07:36.940 extortion to we've both been blue in the face here on this network but the more we talk about
00:07:42.300 it it seems like the more is still going on on the back end yeah it is uh it is something that is uh
00:07:49.100 Often within a cultural group in Canada, it has a lot to do with debt financing, gambling, and, of course, territory.
00:07:58.000 That's the most recent one we see with the tow truck drivers as an example.
00:08:03.040 Now we're also seeing people shooting at each other at the highest levels as a competitor to GFL here in Canada was identified and jailed for shooting at his competitor's door, for goodness sake.
00:08:15.800 Yeah. And it seems like in Calgary, they've published an extensive list of people charged in investigations involving alleged extortion, shootings, arson, and planned kidnapping. The RCMP is still targeting networks this week to try and find these widespread cases. This isn't just something that's being honed in on in a certain area. This is going on everywhere.
00:08:37.800 So this extortion is a new means of crime revenue generation.
00:08:42.440 And at this point, the extortion, because everybody hears about it,
00:08:46.080 and a lot of people are talking about it, like us,
00:08:48.120 and the news is talking about it,
00:08:49.760 people are so scared now that they're not even having to steal anything.
00:08:52.960 Just the threat of extortion to your business
00:08:55.060 is starting to get some of these guys paid out.
00:08:57.280 Yeah, it's almost like hacking in this era.
00:09:00.200 It's fear-mongering, right?
00:09:01.880 You're basically...
00:09:02.720 It's the original mobster methodology.
00:09:05.620 Lay down or stay down.
00:09:06.740 Yeah.
00:09:07.100 Yeah.
00:09:07.600 And we had a gentleman come on and teach me about extortion
00:09:11.520 on a previous episode Jeremy and I said that same thing to him I said Jeremy the more you talk the
00:09:15.700 more I feel like this is just state property it's lay down or stay down yeah and I don't know why
00:09:21.360 this is a thing that's continuing to grow uh you would think that the government at this point
00:09:26.240 would have to step in but this is going back to even fentanyl I said it on the last one these
00:09:31.340 are like this is almost terrorism when it reaches a point that uh the police are saying that it's
00:09:38.180 organized extortion was really uh that was organized crime in a big way if they are not
00:09:43.700 treating it like organized crime right now i'd be surprised yeah but that does open up the
00:09:48.340 possibilities for the police to do other things if they're seeing it as an organized activity
00:09:53.140 Rather than trying to get certain documentation required by the courts to do investigation.