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REAL SCOOP: Surrey RCMP issue warning about 5 involved in conflict
Surrey RCMP have again taken the extraordinary step of releasing the identities of five young men alleged to be involved in a drug trade conflict. Officer-in-charge Dwayne McDonald said Monday that...
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REAL SCOOP: Warring gangs and public shootings
I did a little more research on the five men Surrey RCMP warned the public about earlier this week. Interestingly, as of yesterday, police hadn’t yet received any tips about the five, who have been...
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REAL SCOOP: Another gang murder and shootings across Metro – UPDATED
Lower Mainland policing agencies were investigating four more shootings Tuesday after a violence-plagued few days that left a young Abbotsford gangster dead and others wounded. Surrey RCMP has been the...
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REAL SCOOP: Minister to meet RCMP, Mayor over gang violence
It’s been a ridiculous few days across the Lower Mainland with escalating gang violence. And the new Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth is getting up to speed on the problem and meeting with police...
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REAL SCOOP: Biker clubhouse focus of murder probe
A Vancouver Island murder investigation from last year took an interesting turn Thursday when B.C.’s anti-gang police raided the Campbell River clubhouse of the Devils Army. No one has been arrested...
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Vancouver Sun reporter Kim Bolan to receive lifetime achievement award
Kim Bolan, longtime crime reporter with The Vancouver Sun, will be recognized with a lifetime achievement award later this year at the Jack Webster Awards. Bolan, who has covered crime for more than...
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REAL SCOOP: Man shot to death in driveway of Surrey home
A young Surrey man with gang links is the latest to die in a targeted murder. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said in a release that Pardeep Singh, 22, was shot to death in the driveway of...
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REAL SCOOP: VPD investigating eastside shooting
Vancouver Police officers are investigating shots fired Tuesday night in an east Vancouver neighbourhood, Const. Jason Doucette said Wednesday. Doucette said in a news release that no one was injured...
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REAL SCOOP: Hells Angels Larry Amero freed after charges stayed
Even though Hells Angel Larry Amero has been in a Quebec jail for almost five years, he is still a powerful biker here in B.C. And now he could be coming back to his home province. He had major drug...
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REAL SCOOP: Targeted murder in Abbotsford Thursday
Abbotsford Police says a man was found dead near Gladwin and Huntingdon Roads Thursday evening after reports of shots fired in the area. Const. Ian McDonald said the murder happened about 6 p.m. The...
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REAL SCOOP: Murder victims in Langley and Chilliwack identified
Homicide investigators provided updates Tuesday on recent murders in Langley and Chilliwack. Brandy Petrie, 34, of Burnaby, and Surrey resident Avery Levely-Flescher, 20, were found with fatal gunshot...
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REAL SCOOP: Alkhalil makes appearance in Duhre murder case
Accused killer Rabih (Robbie) Alkhalil made an appearance via video link at Vancouver Provincial Court this morning in a high-profile gangland murder case. Details of the appearance cannot be reported...
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REAL SCOOP: B.C. woman linked to bizarre U.S. kidnapping plot
Someone on twitter tipped me to this weird story out of Tennessee implicating a Williams Lake woman in an American plot to kidnap a judge and a sheriff. When I started looking at Suzanne Holland’s...
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REAL SCOOP: Evolving investigation led to delays in Bacon murder trial
I was checking in on a couple of cases Monday. The Cory Vallee murder trial was set to resume at the Vancouver Law Courts. It was a brief hearing just laying out scheduling for the fall. The defence...
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REAL SCOOP: Minister plans to cut court delays to stop stays
It was interesting Friday to hear public safety ministers and federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould from across the country talk about their plans/concerns about implementing the new marijuana...
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REAL SCOOP: Man murdered in Richmond – UPDATED
A 41-year old “known to police” has been identified as the victim of Monday’s murder in Richmond. Cpl. Meghan Foster, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said Joseph Lucien De Carvalho, who...
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REAL SCOOP: Arson at LeClair's house months before murder
I was back at the Cory Vallee murder trial Monday where there were some interesting witnesses talking about a fire set at a Mission house where Kevin LeClair lived months before he was murdered. This...
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REAL SCOOP: Jarrod Bacon back in jail after strip club incident
That didn’t take long. Just a few months after Jarrod Bacon was let out of prison on statutory release, he is back behind bars. While statutory release is virtually automatic for inmates who serve...
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REAL SCOOP: Another former inmate sues government for jail assault
I have written many stories over the years about some of the violence in B.C. jails. There have been gang-linked attacks like the life-altering assault on Jesse Margison in North Fraser Pretrial jail...
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REAL SCOOP: Red Scorpion founder killed in Kamloops
A founding member of the Red Scorpion gang was shot to death in a targeted Kamloops slaying Thursday. Konaam Shirzad was not as high-profile as other Red Scorpions. But he had been connected to the...
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