Daniel Sedin unknowingly took helicopter ride with convicted drug smuggler
Vancouver Canucks winger Daniel Sedin unwittingly took a scenic helicopter trip last week with a longtime gangster who has served time in the U.S. for drug smuggling. Anti-gang police warned the...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Star Canuck unwittingly takes ride with convicted smuggler
I have to apologize for ignoring blog readers over the last week. Lots of changes are underway at work and I’ve been focused on them and not you! But I thought you would be interested in this story – I...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Dean Wiwchar loses appeal of firearms convictions
I was so busy yesterday with the story about Daniel Sedin’s controversial helicopter ride that I forgot to post this other story about Dean Wiwchar losing his appeal of his firearms convictions.The...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: IHIT identifies young man murdered in Richmond
A young Vancouver man awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges was shot to death in Richmond Monday night. Calvin Chi Hang Zhao, 21, was killed just before 9:30 p.m. in the 7000-block of Ash Street....
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: BC men linked to local conflict gunned down in Edmonton – UPDATED
Edmonton Police are investigating the double-murder of two young B.C. men linked to the Lower Mainland gang conflict. Navdeep Sidhu, 24 and Harman Mangat, 22, were found inside a vehicle in Southeast...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: CBSA finds 17 kilos of cocaine in woman's car
The Canada Border Services Agency announced today that agents seized just under 17 kilograms of cocaine from a woman’s car in October at the Pacific Highway crossing. The news release said the woman...
View ArticleSuspect in custody after early morning Richmond slaying
Homicide investigators have a suspect in custody after the murder of a man at a business inside a Richmond industrial park. Cpl. Meghan Foster, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said...
View ArticleB.C. Hells Angel was targeted by Ontario hitman, indictment says
A high-profile Hells Angel from B.C. was the target of a murder attempt by a purported Hamilton hitman, Postmedia News has learned. B.C.’s anti-gang agency announced late Friday that two Ontario men...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Suspect in custody after Richmond slaying
There have been two Metro Vancouver murders so far this year – both of them in Richmond. Homicide investigators were called to a business park on Viking Way near Cambie Road about 6:30 a.m. Monday...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Hitman targeted Hells Angel Damion Ryan, indictment says
B.C.’s anti-gang squad announced late Friday afternoon that two Ontario men had been charged after allegedly coming to Metro Vancouver as hired hitmen. They didn’t identify who the men were suspected...
View ArticleKiller Kelly Ellard’s ‘best therapy’ being a new mom as parole board splits...
ABBOTSFORD — Notorious killer Kelly Ellard says she sees “the world with different eyes” since becoming a mother about two months ago. She told two parole board members at a hearing Wednesday that her...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Hells Angels and associates lose trial delay application
I earlier reported on the bid by Hells Angels David Giles, Bryan Oldham and their associates Shawn Womacks and James Howard to have their convictions related to a cocaine conspiracy stayed due to trial...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: No trips into town for Kelly Ellard and new baby
Two parole board members were tasked with deciding Wednesday whether or not convicted killer Kelly Ellard should be allowed to have up to five escorted temporary absences a month to take her new baby...
View ArticleUN gangster deported to Iraq directly from Fraser Valley prison
A high-ranking member of the United Nations gang has been deported to his native Iraq after finishing his sentence for plotting to kill the Bacon brothers. Postmedia has learned that Barzan...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Barzan Tilli-Choli sent back to Iraq
Another Metro Vancouver gangster has been deported to a country that he left as a youth. Barzan Tilli-Choli, of the UN Gang, was sent to Iraq this week after finishing his sentence for plotting to kill...
View ArticleCrown wants 15 year sentence for Hells Angel associate in B.C. cocaine...
A Hells Angels associate convicted last fall in a massive cocaine conspiracy should spend 15 years in prison, federal prosecutor Chris Greenwood said Tuesday. Greenwood told B.C. Supreme Court Justice...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Crown wants 15 years for Hells Angels associate
The sentencing process finally began Tuesday for those convicted last September in the cocaine conspiracy case involving Kelowna Hells Angels and some of their associates. We know that Kevin Van...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: More Lower Mainland gun violence Tuesday
Abbotsford Police are investigating a shooting Tuesday evening that left two men with injuries. Sgt. Judy Bird said in a news release that police got called about 6:20 p.m. about possible shots fired...
View ArticleLower Mainland police share intelligence after rash of gang shootings
Police agencies across the Lower Mainland are sharing intelligence after a rash of suspected gang and drug-related shootings and murders in January. There have been at least 10 shootings in the region,...
View ArticleA peek inside the nursery at Fraser Valley Institution where Kelly Ellard...
ABBOTSFORD — When killer Kelly Ellard takes her baby to the prison playground they have a view across a field and through barbed wire to Matsqui Institution, where the tyke’s father lives. Ellard is...
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