REAL SCOOP: Police identify murder victims in Vancouver, Port Coquitlam
Homicide investigators are asking for the public’s help in solving two recent murders in Vancouver and Port Coquitlam. On Tuesday, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team released the identity of...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Air India terrorist can now stay at home, parole board says
Inderjit Reyat is the only man ever convicted in Canada’s deadliest terrorist attack. And despite lying at the trial of his two co-accused and aiding in their acquittal, the Parole Board of Canada has...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Irish mobster from B.C. pleads guilty in Montreal drug case
Before he was arrested on Nov. 1, 2012 in a massive Quebec drug smuggling case, Shane Maloney was looking to buy real estate here in Metro Vancouver. Anti-gang police were concerned that the former...
View ArticleB.C. gangster pleads guilty in Montreal to role in international cocaine...
A B.C. gangster linked to one of the biggest arms seizures in Canadian history has pleaded guilty in Montreal to a series of drug, explosives and firearms charges. Prosecutors said Shane “Wheels”...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Murder in Abbotsford; shooting in Vancouver
Abbotsford Police responded to a shots fired call Monday morning and found a young man fatally wounded. And minutes later they took three men into custody. Const. Ian MacDonald said the shooting...
View ArticleCory Vallee murder trial: Trucker testifies about seeing man run up to car...
Trucker Rob Johnson thought he’d driven up to a Burnaby movie set when he saw a man with a gun firing at a black sports car. Johnson recalled the May 2008 scene Monday at the murder trial of accused...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Trucker testifies about man shooting up sports car
It must have been quite a scene on Burnaby’s Kensington overpass almost nine years ago. A black sports car, like the new Jaguar at the time, or a Maserati, had a guy on foot run up to it and start...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Abby victim identified as Satkar Sidhu, no charges yet
Homicide investigators have released the identity of the 23-year-old man gunned down on his way to work in Abbotsford Monday morning. Cpl. Meghan Foster, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team,...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Kidnapping suspects now in custody: VPD
Vancouver homicide detectives have arrested the three remaining suspects in a kidnapping investigation that began last September in East Vancouver. Const. Jason Doucette said the three suspects were...
View ArticleUN gang founder told cop the violence would continue right before murder
A Vancouver cop testified Wednesday that United Nations founder Clay Roueche told him gangland murders would continue shortly before a fatal shooting in Burnaby in 2008. Sgt. Dave Colton told B.C....
View ArticleFormer UN associate dies in halfway house months before reuniting with family
Johnny “K-9″ Kroitoru was a colourful former wrestler, bit actor and biker who pleaded guilty in 2013 to conspiring to kill the Bacon brothers. He was also a devoted family man on the verge of being...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Roueche told cop in 2008 the murders would continue
There was interesting testimony at the Cory Vallee trial Wednesday though it may not end up being evidence in the case. The Crown called Vancouver Police Sgt. Dave Colton, who testified about a...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Johnny K-9 dies in Toronto halfway house
His family had been hoping to reunite with Johnny Kroitoru in May of this year when he was supposed to be allowed to return to B.C. from an Ontario halfway house. But the strongman serving a sentence...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Abby PD issues public warning about gang conflict
Abbotsford Police issued another warning about the on-going gang conflict that has left several dead and wounded in recent months. Const. Ian MacDonald said in a news release Friday evening that police...
View ArticleKiller Kelly Ellard granted escorted releases from prison with her baby
ABBOTSFORD — Notorious killer Kelly Ellard will be allowed to take her young son to some of his appointments in the community, the Parole Board of Canada decided Monday. Parole board members Alex...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Killer Kelly Ellard gets temporary prison leaves with baby
I was back out at the Fraser Valley Institution today for killer Kelly Ellard to have another hearing before the Parole Board of Canada to try to get temporary releases from prison to take her baby to...
View ArticleVancouver refugee with 54 criminal convictions argues to be freed
Since Jacob Lunyamila, a Vancouver resident originally from Africa, got refugee status in 1996, he has racked up 95 criminal charges and 54 convictions in more than 400 interactions with police. He...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Refugee with long record must stay in jail, judge says
There is a lot of talk south of the border about non-citizens with criminal records being ordered deported. The reality is the same thing is happening routinely in Canada as we saw with the recent...
View ArticleNotorious Bacon brother Jarrod released into halfway house
B.C. gangster Jarrod Bacon told a parole board he feared that he would be killed if forced to live in a halfway house after his release from prison last month. But a Quebec parole board member still...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Jarrod Bacon released to halfway house in unknown location
A few years ago, the Bacon brothers were considered a major threat across the Lower Mainland. On May 31, 2008, anti-gang police issued an extraordinary public warning, saying anyone close to the...
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