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REAL SCOOP: Murder charge laid in Jonathen Patko shooting
Homicide investigators still haven’t formally released the name of the Maple Ridge man murdered on Sept. 24. His family and friends started a memorial page for him. I learned from a source that a...
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Boyfriend of pregnant killer a 'person of interest' in drug dealer disappearance
The boyfriend of pregnant killer Kelly Ellard is a “person of interest” in the May 2016 disappearance of a low-level drug dealer, according to Parole Board of Canada documents. Darwin Dorozan, 42, had...
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REAL SCOOP: Ellard boyfriend "person of interest" in drug dealer disappearance
I just got a recent parole decision in the case of Darwin Duane Dorozan, the 42-year-old long-time criminal who is the boyfriend of pregnant killer Kelly Ellard. When I broke the story of Ellard’s...
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REAL SCOOP: CBSA seizes over 100 kg of cocaine at border
The Canada Border Services Agency announced that its officers had seized a major seizure of cocaine from a commercial vehicle last month. A trucker was arrested after agents found 107.5 kilograms of...
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Courtenay man jailed after 'fabrication' of story about 30 missing guns
A Courtenay man who has refused to reveal the location of at least 30 missing firearms was sentenced to more than three years in prison on Monday for a dozen gun-related convictions. B.C. Supreme Court...
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Appeal court rejects killer's argument that he aided wife's suicide
It wasn’t a traditional love story. When Thomas Elton and Brenda Turcan married in 2005, both were convicted killers. Then Elton strangled and stabbed his chronically ill wife in June 2009. He was...
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REAL SCOOP: Courtenay HA associate gets 40 months on firearms charges
Hey Real Scoop readers, I have been neglecting you for a few days. Sorry about that! I was consumed with election coverage south of the border. But time to focus on my own work again! So I am just...
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REAL SCOOP: Killer loses appeal in wife's slaying
Earlier this week, I noticed a ruling on the Appeal Court website in the case of Thomas Elton – a man charged back in 2009 with killing his wife. I remember covering the original case. Both Elton and...
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The Clark Park gang ruled East Van with bats and chains
Growing up in East Vancouver, Danny “Mouse” Williamson was taught to be tough and stand up for himself, even against the police. “We didn’t trust the police. My dad had been arrested for different...
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REAL SCOOP: Author Aaron Chapman's engaging story of the Clark Park Gang
Aaron Chapman’s latest book, The Last Gang in Town, was launched at the Biltmore a couple of weeks back. I didn’t make it to the launch, but did manage to catch up with Aaron last week and interview...
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REAL SCOOP: Man charged after DTES shooting Monday
Vancouver Police have announced charges against a 27-year-old man in connection with a shooting Monday that sent a woman to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Andrew Oscar Owusu has been...
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B.C. trial of alleged UN Gang killer kicks off with Mexican move
An alleged United Nations Gang killer was struck by Mexican police and had a bag thrown over his head during his August 2014 arrest in Guadalajara, B.C. Supreme Court heard Wednesday. Lawyer Tony...
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REAL SCOOP: Trial begins for alleged UN hitman Cory Vallee
It’s been more than two years since accused killer Cory Vallee was arrested in Mexico, charged with two murders in B.C. in 2008 ad 2009. He is alleged to have been a hitman for the United Nations gang...
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Metro man faces deportation hearing after U.S. drug conviction
He came to Canada from India as a 15-year-old in 1998. He is married and works in the Lower Mainland. But Hardeep Singh Brar is facing possible deportation to the country of his birth because of a U.S....
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REAL SCOOP: Metro man faces deportation hearing after US drug conviction
Another B.C. man is facing possible deportation due to a U.S. drug conspiracy conviction. Hardeep Brar got embroiled in the cross-border case back in 2009. He has no other criminal record. But because...
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Man beaten in jail loses bid to get Jamie Bacon's records for lawsuit
A man who was severely beaten while being held in the Surrey pretrial jail in 2011 has lost a bid to get records about how Red Scorpion gangsters were managed by prison staff before he was attacked....
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UN gangster, alleged killer boasted to undercover cops he was B.C.'s most wanted
An alleged United Nations gang killer boasted to two undercover cops that he was B.C.’s most wanted during a secretly recorded conversation in the back of a police vehicle in 2014. Cory Vallee, who is...
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REAL SCOOP: Man beaten in jail loses bid to get Bacon case records
There are currently several on-going lawsuits against the B.C. government by inmates who have been beaten while in provincial pretrial jails. I wrote a feature about some of these cases which was...
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REAL SCOOP: Accused killer boasted about being B.C.'s most wanted
The defence application to exclude evidence in the Cory Vallee murder case is continuing in B.C. Supreme Court. On Monday, we got to hear some of the secretly recorded conversations between Vallee and...
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Accused UN killer tells undercover cop he dreamed about being arrested
Cory Vallee, a United Nations gang member and accused killer, had a dream he was going to be arrested the day before Mexican police raided his Guadalajara house and took him into custody. Vallee...
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