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REAL SCOOP: Vallee should get extra credit for Surrey pretrial conditions
The sentencing hearing for Cory Vallee wrapped up Tuesday with the defence making a case for Vallee to get 2-1 credit for the four years he’s been in pretrial. Any extra credit he gets would only apply...
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Sons of original East End Hells Angel linked to assault of Vancouver police...
Two of three men charged with assaulting a Vancouver police officer Tuesday are sons of an original member of the East End Hells Angels, Postmedia has learned. A Vancouver police officer was taken to...
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REAL SCOOP: Sons of ex-Angel charged with assaulting cop
My colleague Scott Brown had written a story about the beating of a Vancouver Police officer after a Durango was pulled over on Robson Oct. 9. Then I heard from a source that two of those charged are...
View ArticleB.C. government tries to seize limo after alleged sex assault in Vancouver
The B.C. director of civil forfeiture has filed a suit against a limousine owner after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman inside the vehicle last month. The suit, filed this week at the Victoria...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Another fatal shooting in Surrey
A 30-year-old Surrey man was shot to death in a targeted murder Thursday afternoon. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said the victim, Sumeet Randhawa, was known to police. IHIT media officer,...
View ArticlePolice chiefs say they're ready for cannabis legalization
Police agencies across the country are ready for the legalization of recreational cannabis this week, Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer said Monday. Palmer, speaking as president of the Canadian...
View ArticleNew provincial investigators to enforce illegal cannabis sales
The B.C. government will have a team of 44 special constables around the province to investigate unlicensed cannabis stores. But no enforcement action is expected until more licensed stores are opened,...
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REAL SCOOP: Police release video of suspects in Surrey murder
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team hopes the public can identify suspects in a Surrey murder captured last week on video surveillance footage. Cpl. Frank Jang said Wednesday that detectives...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Targeted slaying in Abbotsford Thursday
The gun violence across the Lower Mainland continued Thursday with a targeted murder in Abbotsford. Sgt. Judy Bird, of the Abbotsford Police Department, said in a news released that police received...
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Abbotsford murder victim was brother of gang boss slain last December
The man shot to death in Abbotsford on Thursday evening is the elder brother of Gavin Grewal, the gang leader murdered in his penthouse apartment last December, Postmedia News has learned. Mandeep...
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REAL SCOOP: Gang leader's brother shot dead in Abbotsford
Mandeep Grewal had no criminal record and was not involved in the gang life his two younger brothers Gavin and Manbir had chosen. But he still ended up a victim of deadly gun violence. He was shot to...
View ArticlePolice breached his rights, but B.C. government wants his cash
An alleged Vancouver Island drug trafficker acquitted earlier this year because police violated his Charter rights is now the subject of a civil forfeiture lawsuit. The director of civil forfeiture...
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B.C. Hells Angel accused in murder conspiracy seeks bail
A high-profile Hells Angels is trying to get released on bail after being charged earlier this year with conspiracy to murder two rival gangsters in 2012. A three-day hearing began in B.C. Supreme...
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REAL SCOOP: Larry Amero tries to get bail
I was in court Monday for the resumption of the civil trial between the Hells Angels and the director of civil forfeiture, who wants three biker clubhouses forfeited to the government. The case was...
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REAL SCOOP: Devils Army leader Ricky Alexander charged with murder
Last year, when officers raided the Devils Army clubhouse in Campbell River, president Ricky Alexander said he had no idea what was going on. Now Alexander has been charged with the first-degree murder...
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High-profile B.C. Hells Angels associate charged with murder
A prominent Hells Angels associate who leads the Devils Army support club in Campbell River has been charged with the 2016 murder of a promising MMA fighter and young father. Richard Ernest “Ricky”...
View ArticleFormer international drug kingpin now a painter, parole documents say
When Yong Long Ye was arrested almost 11 years ago, police described him as the “head of the snake” of an international trafficking gang who owned luxury properties and moved tens of millions in drugs...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Drug kingpin released on day parole
Yong Ye has served a decade behind bars after pleading guilty in 2008 to leading an international drug trafficking organization. At his sentencing hearing in December 2008, the Crown described just a...
View ArticleB.C. Corrections officers didn't stop as inmate dies in back of van
For more than an hour as they drove down Highway 97 in the back of a B.C. Corrections van on Oct. 4, inmates pounded on the walls and shouted for help. They were worried that fellow passenger Alex...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Inmate dies during long haul transfer
The death Oct. 4 of Alex Joseph while he was being transported by B.C. Corrections from Prince George to Maple Ridge leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Why didn’t the guards driving the van carrying...
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