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B.C. cops help solve violent gang crime in Guatemala
When Guatemalan prosecutor Allan Stowlinsky was kidnapped, murdered and decapitated two years ago, police there used investigative techniques learned from B.C. cops to catch his killers. They seized...
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Gang associate gets four and a half years for loaded guns, drugs
A man identified in court documents as an associate of the late Jonathan Bacon and a Hells Angel has been sentenced to four and a half years in jail for trafficking and firearms convictions. Brendan...
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Margison has no memory of attack or criminal charges: report
A gangster who suffered severe brain damage in a prison beating last August had no memory months later of being charged with kidnapping, assault and use of a firearm. While Jesse John Margison made...
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UN gangster Michael Newman appeals murder conviction
United Nations gang killer Michael Newman has filed an appeal of his conviction for the 2004 murder of Marc Rozen during a botched West End robbery. Newman was sentenced in February to life in prison...
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Convicted Montreal cocaine trafficker claims he didn’t understand English trial
Convicted cocaine trafficker Jean Gingras listened to his own English conversations with an undercover police officer Tuesday as his lawyer argued before the B.C. Court of Appeal that the Francophone...
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Mirhadi, Moncur acquitted, five men convicted in 2011 kidnapping
A high profile kidnapping trial ended Wednesday with five men convicted on a series of charges and former North Vancouver realtor Naz Mirhadi acquitted on all counts. B.C. Supreme Court Justice...
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Targeted shooting Monday at spot where Manraj Akalirai was killed
Vancouver Police are investigating a “targeted shooting” at the spot where a teenager was killed in a sword attack in January. Const. Brian Montague confirmed to The Vancouver Sun that police were...
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Inmates in B.C. jail winning settlements for assaults
The B.C. government has paid out millions of dollars to inmates in provincial jails to settle lawsuits filed in recent years, The Vancouver Sun has learned. According to documents obtained under the...
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Surrey man convicted a second time in 2005 murder
For a second time, Tasha Rosette’s former boyfriend has been found guilty of first degree murder in her November 2005 death. The young Surrey woman was pregnant with a baby that Amjad Khan didn’t want....
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Independent Soldier wins transfer to minimum security prison
A one-time leader of the Independent Soldiers gang has won his transfer back to a lower security jail after claiming in B.C. Supreme Court that his Charter rights were violated. Jayme Russell, who is...
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Police find another underground pot bunker linked to Hells Angels
B.C. gang enforcement cops have uncovered another sophisticated underground pot growing bunker believed to be linked to the Hells Angels. Sgt. Lindsey Houghton, of the Combined Forces Special...
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Nanaimo Hells Angel gets charge stayed over court delays
Criminal charges against a high-ranking member of the Nanaimo Hells Angels have been stayed by a B.C. Supreme Court judge, who ruled his Charter rights were violated because the case was taking too...
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Abundant supply of shipping containers for would-be pot growers
Would-be pot growers looking to set up an underground bunker like the one police raided in Langley this week have several places to purchase used shipping containers. At least five Lower Mainland...
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Men convicted as criminal organization for downtown eastside drug operation
Two men who were part of a gang that terrorized drug addicts on Vancouver’s downtown eastside have been convicted of trafficking cocaine and working for the benefit of a criminal organization....
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Vancouver man charged in Toronto cocaine bust
A Vancouver man is among four people charged after Toronto police found millions of dollars worth of cocaine in two of their vehicles earlier this week. Vancouver’s Philipos Kollaros, 33, has been...
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Bikers win small victory in long-running Nanaimo clubhouse court battle
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ordered the B.C. government to rewrite some of its claims against the Nanaimo Hells Angels in a long-running civil suit over the bikers’ clubhouse. Justice Barry Davies...
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The Real Scoop is on vacation!!
That means comments will not appear on the blog until I have it back up and running in two weeks time. You may see a reference to your comment being “held for moderation,” but there is no one to...
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Air India anniversary a painful reminder of terrible loss
As she stood in front of the memorial wall Sunday that bears her husband Sam’s name, Perviz Madon tried to explain what it is like to mark yet another anniversary of the 1985 Air India bombing. “Days...
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One man dead after Abbotsford shooting Sunday
A young man is dead after a fatal shooting in Abbotsford Sunday evening. Abbotsford Police received 911 calls about shots fired near the intersection of South Fraser Way and Emerson Street at 5:15 pm....
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Abbotsford shooting victim an associate of accused in Bacon case
A young Abbotsford man gunned down Sunday was an associate of one of the accused killers of Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon. Harpreet Singh Chahal, 25, was critically wounded in a targeted...
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