REAL SCOOP: Jamie Bacon makes special court appearance Friday
We got a media notice from the B.C. government Thursday afternoon telling us that Jamie Bacon would be making a special court appearance Friday at 2 p.m. No other details were provided. Maybe we’ll...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Jamie Bacon's murder trial delayed until 2018
It wasn’t the news many of us gathered in courtroom 20 Friday expected. We thought maybe accused Surrey Six killer Jamie Bacon might have struck a plea deal on a lesser charge. We have seen that a few...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Targeted hit in Maple Ridge, Coquitlam victim identified
Ridge Meadows RCMP responded to a shots fired call near 243 Street and 102 Avenue about 2 a.m. Saturday. When officers arrived, they found a 32-year-old man with gunshot wounds. He was transported to...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Two wounded in South Surrey shooting
The gun violence continues in the Lower Mainland. Surrey RCMP issued a release Sunday saying a man and a woman had been injured in a targeted shooting in the 4200-block of 152nd Street. “The male and...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: UN gangster to be deported to Iraq in early 2017
I’ve tried to update readers whenever there’s a development in the case of the United Nations gang plot to kill the Bacon brothers. As I’ve recently reported, UN associates like Ion (K-9) Kroitoru...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Two bodies and two men arrested in Vancouver
Vancouver police have arrested two men after two bodies were found in different parts of the city. Just before 7 p.m. Wednesday, police were called to the Davie Street mansion near Nicola Street in...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: David Giles convicted on all counts in cocaine conspiracy
It took B.C. Supreme Court Justice Carol Ross two hours Friday to read a summary of her ruling in the massive Hells Angels case. At the end of the morning, senior HA David Giles was convicted...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Surrey gets a new top cop
RCMP Asst. Commissioner Bill Fordy has been at the helm of the Surrey RCMP for four years. But now he’s been appointed to head up the whole Lower Mainland District. Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner announced...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Man shot in Kelowna a key witness in US drug case (EXCLUSIVE)
When a man was critically injured in a bicycle drive-by in Kelowna in August, I thought it was a strange event. Police announced soon afterwards that a suspect had been arrested. His name is Tyrone...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Hells Angels court updates
Eleven days after two Hells Angels and two of their associates were convicted for their roles in a massive drug importation conspiracy, a date has been fixed for their application to throw out the...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Hells Angel Bob Green murdered in Langley – UPDATED
Homicide detectives announced Monday that the victim of Sunday’s slaying in Langley is high-ranking Hells Angel Bob Green, who has been with the notorious biker gang for more than 20 years. I pieced...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: 856 member charged with killing Hells Angel Bob Green
Sources were telling me Monday that a young man involved in Langley’s 856 Gang had been arrested in the murder of Hells Angel Bob Green. Now Jason Francis Wallace, 27, has been charged with...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Hells Angel forfeits interest in building where meth lab was found
It was back in September 2014 when Mission firefighters responded to a call about smoke plumes coming out of a building on Horne Street. They found a suspected drug lab and called in the RCMP. There...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: UN gangster pleads guilty in fatal hit and run
I remember covering the bizarre set of circumstances around a home invasion near Quebec and 20th in Vancouver in December 2008. Some men had broken into a suite in a house brandishing firearms. It was...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: A busy Saturday for Abbotsford Police with a shooting and found...
Homicide investigators are at the location where human remains were found in Abbotsford this weekend. Abbotsford Police were called to the 30900-block of Downes Road about 2 p.m. Saturday after an area...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Killer Kelly Ellard gets pregnant while serving a life sentence
I first got an anonymous call a few months ago telling me Kelly Ellard had gotten pregnant while serving her sentence for the 1997 murder of Reena Virk in Victoria. It was interesting but nearly...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Ellard's prison pregnancy spurs calls for policy review
The story I broke today about convicted killer Kelly Ellard has certainly gotten a lot of attention. We had tens of thousands of people read the story online. Many have offered opinions. Some think...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Nanaimo Hells Angels loses again in appeal court
Nanaimo Hells Angel Fred Widdifield has had a tough time trying to get his extortion conviction of two years ago overturned. In July, the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld his conviction, rejecting his...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Will Kelly Ellard's baby live in prison with her?
No one from the Correctional Service of Canada or the federal government will say what will happen to Kelly Ellard’s baby once it’s born in the next few weeks. But the baby may get to stay with Ellard...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Two HA shootings in 10 days, police looking for links
It’s been a crazy day across the Lower Mainland as homicide investigators try to find out why a man with gang links was slaughtered, dismembered and dumped on Robertson Crescent in Langley. Langley...
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