OPP COMMUNITY STREET CRIME UNIT MAKES ARREST

IN OTTAWA FOLLOWING CBSA OPIUM SEIZURE

One Person Charged in Joint Investigation

(OTTAWA, ON) - The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) East Region Community Street Crime Unit has made an arrest following a Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) seizure of suspected opium, used to produce heroin.

CBSA border services officers detected a substance which tested positive for opium while examining a shipment from India at Air Cargo Operations in Toronto. They contacted the OPP and provided information regarding the package which contained over four kilograms of the illegal drug.

On Friday, October 24, 2025, officers with the Community Street Crime Unit, assisted by members of Ottawa OPP Detachment and the CBSA, executed a search warrant at the package’s destination, which was a location on Meadowlands Drive West in Ottawa. One person was identified and later arrested.

Sunil KUMAR, age 33 of Ottawa, has been charged with:

• Importing a Schedule 1 substance
• Traffick in a Schedule 1 substance

The accused was released from custody and is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice in Ottawa on December 2, 2025.