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REAL SCOOP: Gangster convicted of attempted murder in failed hit
Before Richmond Provincial Court Judge Bonnie Craig started reading out her verdict in an attempted murder case Thursday, she handed a copy of it to accused Thomas Duong, as well as his lawyer and the...
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REAL SCOOP: HA rapper offers help to get medical pot grow licences
Sorry for the delay in reopening Real Scoop comments. I have been battling the cold/flu that so many have. But I am back at work, though off on holidays next week. I wrote this story a couple of days...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Bacon trial delayed till fall
I just confirmed Thursday that Jamie Bacon’s trial has been delayed for five months. Due to all the bans in place, as well as the in-camera pre-trial hearings, I don’t have reasons as to why the case...
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REAL SCOOP: IHIT investigating Langley murder
Homicide investigators are again seeking the public’s help to get information about the region’s latest murder. Surrey resident Tarek Ali Al-Romeshi, 23, was found fatally wounded at a townhouse...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: VPD investigating fatal shooting in Kerrisdale
I am away for a couple of days but wanted to put up a few details of Vancouver’s latest murder. Vancouver Police confirmed late Thursday that a Surrey man shot near Marguerite Street and West 49th...
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REAL SCOOP: IHIT on the scene of Coquitlam murder
Homicide investigators are on the scene of another murder – this time in Coquitlam. Coquitlam RCMP received several calls of shots fired in the area of Sylvan Place and Riverview Crescent about 10...
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REAL SCOOP: Vallee murder trial verdict coming June 1st
The Cory Vallee murder trial finally ended last Wednesday. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Janice Dillon will give her verdict on June 1st. I wrote this summary of the case, highlighting all the unsolved...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Former Hells Angel loses appeal of his extortion sentence
A founding member of the Nanaimo Hells Angel has lost an appeal of the five-year sentence he was handed in 2015 after being convicted of extortion. Robert “Fred” Widdifield had argued to the B.C. Court...
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REAL SCOOP: Jarrod Bacon got parole by mistake
I have to say that the Jarrod Bacon parole appeal documents I got today were among the most unique I have encountered. He successfully argued that the parole board had no right to revoke his parole...
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REAL SCOOP: James Riach gets life sentence in Philippines
There was pretty big news out of Manila overnight. James Riach was convicted and sentenced for his role in a drug trafficking organization. At the time of his 2014 arrest there, police said the drug...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Opium smuggler gets 3 years
I saw this interesting ruling on the B.C. Supreme Court website. It was just posted this week, though the sentencing hearing was just before Christmas. Hard to imagine anyone would agree to fly any...
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REAL SCOOP: Man gets 4 1/2 years in fatal shooting
A man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the fatal shooting of a gang associate in Maple Ridge in 2016 has been sentenced to four and a half years in jail. Deane Sahanovitch appeared in B.C....
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REAL SCOOP: HA civil forfeiture case just weeks away
The long-awaited trial between the B.C. director of civil forfeiture and three Hells Angels chapters finally gets underway next month – 11.5 years after the case began. This week, the parties are in...
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REAL SCOOP: Soomel killers lose appeal of murder convictions
Two assassins who tried to shoot gang leader Randy Naicker but ending up killing his halfway house roommate have lost appeals of their convictions. Kevin Jones and Colin Stewart were convicted in 2016...
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REAL SCOOP: Vancouver company trafficked, aided Sinaloa cartel, U.S. says
I was tipped to this interesting story late Wednesday and spent a day and a half tracking it down before finding the U.S. charging documents early Friday morning. Vancouver encryption company, Phantom...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Fatal shooting in Surrey Friday night – UPDATED
Homicide investigators have identified the man shot to death Friday night as 23-year-old Pardip Brar, of Delta. Brar was well-known to police as someone involved in the Lower Mainland gang conflict. He...
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REAL SCOOP: Ramos laundered tens of millions, U.S. alleges
Here’s a follow story on the one I broke yesterday about Vancouver-based Phantom Secure Communications, which is alleged to have been created solely to aid international drug trafficking organizations...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Phantom phone seizure led to smuggler's arrest
When I was reading through the U.S. court documents about the arrest of Phantom Secure owner Vincent Ramos, I noticed a mention of an arrest of another Metro Vancouver man last June. That man, Saysana...
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REAL SCOOP: Ramos denied bail in Phantom Secure conspiracy case
I wrote a few stories about Richmond’s Vincent Ramos before being off for three weeks helping an ailing relative. So I thought I would check on the status of his case on my first day back today. Ramos...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Fentanyl dealer gets 2 years in jail
A Surrey man with no prior record has been sentenced to two years for trafficking fentanyl. That is in the middle of the range that the B.C. Court of Appeal established last year for street-level...
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