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REAL SCOOP: Police sharing intel on rash of shootings
Police in the Lower Mainland and into Alberta are looking for links between recent shootings and murders. There were two men shot Tuesday in Abbotsford. In that case, Abby Police are looking for a...
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REAL SCOOP: Another shooting in Surrey Thursday night
Surrey RCMP released details of another shooting Thursday – the region’s 11th so far this year. Investigators responded to a shots fired call in the 12300-block of 91A Avenue about 9 p.m. Thursday....
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REAL SCOOP: IHIT announces another murder in Surrey overnight
A Maple Ridge man once charged in a gang murder is the latest victim of a targeted shooting in Surrey. Hershan “Shawn” Bains was found suffering from gunshot wounds “in a vehicle just after 8:00 p.m....
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REAL SCOOP: Vancouver records first murder of 2017
The gun violence continued Friday night with a fatal shooting in Vancouver. Vancouver Police officers were called to the Savoy Hotel, at 258 East Hastings Street, just before 10:30 p.m. where they...
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REAL SCOOP: Richmond records third murder of 2017 – UPDATED
Updated Monday afternoon: Homicide investigators are looking for witnesses in the fatal stabbing of Francis Son Le, who was found in the parking lot of Richmond General Hospital Friday night. Le, 24,...
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Young Surrey drug trafficker the latest Metro Vancouver murder victim
Homicide investigators are looking for witnesses in the fatal stabbing of Francis Son Le, who was found in the parking lot of Richmond General Hospital Friday night. Le, 24, has a criminal record for...
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Vancouver man's 2013 gun charge thrown out over trial delay
A man caught with a gun likely used in a Vancouver shooting has had his charges stayed because his case took too long to get to trial. Brandon Akil Cooper was arrested on Nov. 28, 2013, in connection...
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REAL SCOOP: Gun charges stayed because of trial delay
I have been trying to keep track of cases where applications have been made to throw out charges because of delays in getting to trial. I wrote a feature about this in December which said there had...
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REAL SCOOP: Vancouver Island trafficker loses bid to throw out charges
A Greater Victoria man convicted of drug trafficking has lost his bid to have the charges thrown out because of trial delay. Zachary Scott Matheson, 39, was charged in February 2014 with four counts...
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REAL SCOOP: Seattle judge who blocked Trump's ban familiar to BC criminals
Long before Seattle Judge James L. Robart became a household name Friday for blocking U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration ban, he was well known to some B.C. criminals. Over the last decade,...
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REAL SCOOP: Witnesses will put Vallee at scene of LeClair murder: Crown
The Crown opened its case against accused United Nations gang killer Cory Vallee Monday. Most of the case will be admissions – including wiretaps and video surveillance. There will also be four former...
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Cory Vallee trial: Victim had quit UN gang to join Bacon brothers, alleges...
Before he was gunned down eight years ago Monday, Kevin LeClair had quit the United Nations to join the Bacon brothers and their Red Scorpion gang, a Crown prosecutor told B.C. Supreme Court on Monday....
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Last hour before fatal gang shooting captured on eerie surveillance video
In gripping silent video footage of the last moments before Kevin LeClair was fatally shot, he sits with two friends at the bar of a Langley restaurant, eating, drinking and chatting. LeClair, who was...
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REAL SCOOP: Eerie video captures hour before fatal gang shooting
I was back at the Cory Vallee murder trial Tuesday as Crown prosecutors read the admissions into the record that had already been agreed to by the defence. It was not the most gripping evidence – at...
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Witness 'hit the ground' when shots rang out in gang murder, trial hears
A man recalled Wednesday how he and others in a Langley grocery store eight years ago “hit the ground” when they heard the gunshots that killed gangster Kevin LeClair. Jan Kristensen testified that he...
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REAL SCOOP: Witness "hit the ground" when shot rang out, trial hears
A Langley man who was inside Browns Socialhouse right before Kevin LeClair was gunned down testified at the murder trial of Cory Vallee Wednesday. Jan Kristensen and his friend were just having a...
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Murder witness says gunman took out 'machine gun' and started firing at gang...
Florentin Pirvu was trying to park his car outside a Langley strip mall eight years ago when he saw a man pull a “machine gun” out of a black duffle bag and start firing at a truck just metres away....
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REAL SCOOP: Witness says man took gun from bag, began shooting
I was back at the Cory Vallee murder trial for part of Thursday. I heard the amazing testimony of Florentin Pirvu – a local resident who was trying to park his car when he came upon a murder unfolding...
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Woman convicted despite claiming drunk driving was to escape violent boyfriend
A Penticton woman who says she had no choice but to drive drunk to escape her violent boyfriend has been convicted of impaired driving. Shannon McMichael admitted she was both over the legal limit and...
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Convicted Air India terrorist Inderjit Reyat can now live at home: Parole...
The only man convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing no longer has to stay in a halfway house and can now live at his family home, the Parole Board of Canada has ruled. Inderjit Singh Reyat was...
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