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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have laid 21 new charges against 11 suspects as part of an ongoing year-long investigation called "Project Derry" into organized crime on Bunibonibee Cree Nation, located over 900 kilometres north of Winnipeg. This brings the total number of people facing charges to 35 with more than 70 charges in total. The RCMP seized $1.2 million worth of weapons and drugs during the investigation, including firearms, cocaine, opioids, and alcohol, after an increase in violence related to drug trafficking and weapons on the First Nation.
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) laid 21 new charges against 11 suspects in northern Manitoba as part of an ongoing investigation into a criminal organization operating on Bunibonibee Cree Nation. This year-long probe, named 'Project Derry' by the RCMP, followed an increase in weapons and drug trafficking on the First Nation community located over 900 kilometres north of Winnipeg. Since June 2025, Manitoba Integrated Law Enforcement Team (MILET) officers have been investigating this issue, initially due to concerns about rising violence in the area.
Supt. Jeff Asmundson, head of MILET, noted that these charges are supplementary to the 51 charges announced last December and now include nine individuals facing new weapons trafficking charges after police confiscated 15 firearms during their investigation. Some of these seized weapons had serial numbers removed, indicating an attempt to obscure their origins or prevent tracking by authorities.
Moreover, five people have been arrested or re-arrested for allegedly being involved in three shootings that took place on the First Nation, which Asmundson described as showing "a flagrant and reckless disregard for human life," with multiple homes targeted in apparent attempts to threaten community members. Two individuals, including one of the suspects, were injured during these incidents.
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More charges have been against several suspects as part of a year-long investigation into a criminal organization operating on a First Nation in northern Manitoba, according to RCMP.
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Twenty-one new charges were laid against 11 suspects in connection with the probe, dubbed ‘Project Derry’ by the RCMP.
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Manitoba Integrated Law Enforcement Team (MILET) officers began the investigation in June of 2025, following an increase in weapons and drug trafficking on Bunibonibee Cree Nation, a community more than 900 kilometres north of Winnipeg.
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“We were concerned about the violence in the community, that was the initial reason why our team was engaged,” RCMP Supt. Jeff Asmundson, the officer in charge of MILET, said at a news conference.
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He said the charges announced Tuesday are in addition to the 51 charges related to the project that were announced last December.
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Nine people are now facing new weapons trafficking charges after police seized 15 firearms during the year-long probe, he continued.
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Some of the weapons were said to have had serial numbers removed.
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Five people were arrested or re-arrested and charged by the RCMP for allegedly being involved with three shootings that occurred on the Bunibonibee Cree Nation in a five-day span last year, the superintendent said.
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“These shootings showed a flagrant and reckless disregard for human life with multiple homes fired upon in an apparent attempt to threaten, intimidate and harm community members,” Asmundson said, adding that two people, including one of the suspects, were injured in the shootings.
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In total, Asmundson said 35 people are now facing more than 70 charges related to Project Derry.
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Ten people have already been convicted as a result of this investigation, according to RCMP.
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More than $1.2 million worth of weapons and drugs were seized, the RCMP said at its initial news conference on Project Derry last December.
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Those items included nine guns, two kilograms of cocaine, hundreds of oxycodone and fentanyl pills, a small amount of carfentanyl and hundreds of bottles of liquor.
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Since the arrests, violent crime has decreased by 27 per cent, and serious violent crimes have lessened by 55 per cent, Asmundson said.
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“It is very much appreciated and important to us as leaders in the community. It means a safer community,” said Bunibonibee Cree Nation Chief Sheila North at Tuesday’s news conference.
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“We will continue to remain vigilant and work hard to make sure that we maintain the peace and good order in our beautiful community because our people deserve it, our north deserves it.”
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Police said the Project Derry investigation is ongoing.
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