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The violence continues in Surrey
The violence continues in Surrey where the latest shooting happened about 11 p.m. Tuesday at a deserted house in the 7700-block of 155th St. Surrey RCMP arrived at the scene to find one man with...
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REAL SCOOP: Shooting in East Vancouver late Tuesday
The Lower Mainland’s gang violence continues with a shooting in East Vancouver late Tuesday. Vancouver Police Sgt. Randy Fincham said one man was injured in the targeted shooting near Oxford and...
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REAL SCOOP: Anti-gang cops find suspected drug lab during White Rock search –...
Police remained on the scene Wednesday of a clandestine drug lab inside a rental home just half a block from the White Rock waterfront. The entire 800-block of Parker Street was behind police tape...
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REAL SCOOP: Surrey Mounties take unregistered guns from licenced owners
Surrey Mounties just announced the results of their Safe City Project where they were visiting licenced gun holders who had not re-registered restricted or prohibited firearms they have owned since...
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REAL SCOOP: Supreme Court orders "faint hope" hearing for killer
When Bindy Johal associate Vik Chand was shot to death on Oct. 7, 1998 at a car dealership called Rags to Riches, it was big news. There had been a series of murders of people close to Johal. Just two...
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REAL SCOOP: Edmonton gang violence spilled over into BC
When Theoren Poitras was found murdered in a Richmond school yard in October 2014, police said he was an Edmonton resident with gang links. And when his alleged killer – an Edmonton man – was charged a...
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REAL SCOOP: Police face tech obstacles in criminal cases
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson was in B.C. in late March speaking to the Vancouver Board of Trade, as well as the Vancouver Sun’s editorial board. One of the things he stressed was that police face real...
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REAL SCOOP: Gang associate allegedly waved gun in Vancouver restaurant
Two gang associates with links to Alberta and Ontario are back in Vancouver Provincial Court this week after a disturbing incident at a Yaletown restaurant May 1. Vancouver Police were called after a...
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REAL SCOOP: Surrey RCMP confirms shots fired Monday night – UPDATE
UPDATED TUESDAY, MAY 10 at 5:30 p.m. Surrey RCMP is saying there was a second shooting Monday that may be related to the one I wrote about below. The Mounties issued a news release late this...
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REAL SCOOP: B.C. gang associate arrested again on gun and drug charges
It was August 2014 when the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit announced details of the arrest of United Nations gang associate Robert Cletus Traverse on a large rural property north of Dawson...
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REAL SCOOP: Anti-gang agency releases more information about drug lab...
The specialized RCMP unit that cleans up clandestine labs was in the 800-block of Parker in White Rock for several days last week taking care of the chemicals inside a bungalow there. And now police...
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REAL SCOOP: Crown says biker associate should get long sentence and forfeit...
It looks like Hells Angels associate Kevin Van Kalkeren will be doing a long jail term after pleading guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine. He was one of seven men charged in August 2012 after a...
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REAL SCOOP: Van Kalkeren sentence to be handed down May 27
Hells Angel associate Kevin Van Kalkeren will learn later this month how much time he’ll serve for his role in a massive international cocaine importation scheme. His two-day sentencing hearing...
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REAL SCOOP: Hells Angels trial is almost done, closing submissions start June 20
We learned in B.C. Supreme Court Monday that none of the Hells Angels or associates charged in the cocaine reverse sting by the RCMP are going to call evidence in their defence. That means that the...
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REAL SCOOP: Man accused of terrorism in India writes to Trudeau for help
Earlier this week, I was the first reporter to talk to Surrey plumber Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whose name surfaced in news reports out of India as a suspected terrorist. He told me he was innocent of all...
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REAL SCOOP: Gangster charged and convicted in connection with Jon Bacon murder
It was on Aug. 14, 2011 when Kelowna residents got a big taste of the Lower Mainland’s gang violence problems. Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon had been up at the Delta Grand hotel, along with his...
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REAL SCOOP: Several arrests in Kamloops hit Wolf Pack hard: Police
I was surprised to get copies this week of photographs showing Jody York wearing Independent Soldiers gear at a recent B.C. golf tournament. I covered York’s sentencing hearing in Seattle in 2011 and...
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REAL SCOOP: Richmond shooting now a murder
Richmond RCMP is confirming late Saturday that a man shot in a mall parking lot in the 11300-block of Steveston Hwy. earlier this evening has now died. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is now...
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REAL SCOOP: Brazen daylight murder shocks Richmond residents
A Richmond developer was shot to death Saturday night in a targeted murder outside a busy strip mall at Steveston Highway and No. 5 Road. Everyone I’ve spoken to is scratching their heads about who...
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REAL SCOOP: Former Metro Vancouver gangster Sukh Deo gunned down in Toronto hit
The Deo brothers have been known to police in Metro Vancouver for more than 15 years. The family used to have Bindy Johal as a neighbour in Queensborough. In 2005, the victim of a gang kidnapping was...
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