REAL SCOOP: Man linked to Brothers Keepers shot at training centre
Just months after his brother Harb survived a Richmond shooting, Meninder Dhaliwal was wounded by gunfire outside a longshore workers training centre on Mitchell Island March 12. Both men, originally...
View ArticleUnited Nations gang founder appeals 2009 U.S. sentence
United Nations gang founder Clay Roueche says he is a changed man after serving a decade in a U.S. prison, and he wants his 30-year sentence for drug smuggling and money laundering reduced to 21 years...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Roueche appeals for reduction in 30-year sentence
United Nations gang founder Clay Roueche wants the judge who sentenced him to 30 years back in 2009 to knock a few years off his sentence. Roueche is representing himself in trying to get his term...
View ArticleVPD constable convicted of uttering a threat in off-duty incident
A Vancouver police constable has been convicted of uttering a threat to a furniture store owner after a dispute over a dresser that tipped onto his young son. Constable Deepak Kumar Sood told the owner...
View ArticleSilver International owners want forfeiture suit tossed
A lawyer for the Richmond company alleged to be at the centre of B.C.’s biggest money laundering case wants a civil forfeiture suit against their clients thrown out. Matthew Nathanson, one of Silver...
View ArticleInternational fugitive linked to B.C. men charged in China and Thailand
Two B.C. men now in prisons in China and Thailand on serious drug charges were allegedly working for an international fugitive wanted in both Canada and the U.S., Postmedia has learned. Khamla Wong, a...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: UN associate linked to B.C. men jailed in China and Thailand
Back in January, former Abbotsford resident Robert Schellenberg told a court in China that the man behind an international drug ring that he got caught in was Khamla Wong. Wong, of course, has a long...
View ArticleUN gang killer fighting for settlement for 2011 prison beating
A lawyer for a convicted killer and United Nations gang member wants the federal government to honour a settlement offer made last summer after a jailhouse beating eight years ago. Tonia Grace wrote to...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: UN killer wants pay out for prison attack
I first reported on United Nations gang killer Michael Newman’s suit against the federal government back in 2014, alleging Kent Institution officers were negligent by placing him in an area where rival...
View ArticleBacon trial: Nurse recalls frantic shooting victim arriving at hospital
In grainy surveillance video from New Year’s Eve 2008, Dennis Karbovanec can be seen walking quickly across a street and toward Mission Memorial Hospital. Dressed in a white jacket and white shoes,...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Wounded Karbovanec collapsed in waiting room
The Bacon trial has already had videos played of shooting victim Dennis Karbovanec giving statements to police about the attempt on his life 10-plus years ago. On Monday, jurors were shown videos of...
View ArticleSuspect charged after Langara College arson attack
A 23-year-old Surrey man allegedly set three incendiary devices in a building at Langara College on Monday following a dispute with one or more people at the south Vancouver college, Postmedia has...
View ArticleKang gang member gets a year in jail
A member of the Kang criminal organization has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to helping the gang in the drug trade by renting stash houses. Vancouver Provincial Court Judge Reg...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Kang cousin goes to jail for renting stash houses
The older cousin of Sameet, Gary and Randy Kang was sent to jail for a year Monday for assisting the gang by renting stash houses for them. He earlier pleaded guilty to one count of knowingly...
View ArticleBoy who found handgun testifies at Bacon trial
A young boy playing in a Mission creek during spring break last year came across a rusted handgun alleged to have been used in an attempted murder a decade earlier, B.C. Supreme Court heard Wednesday....
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Young boys found firearm linked to shooting
Two boys playing in a creek on spring break last year founded a handgun that has been forensically linked to the 2008 shooting of Dennis Karbovanec. One of the boys took the stand at the Jamie Bacon...
View ArticleNew law will tackle properties linked to gangs and drugs, minister says
The provincial government hopes new legislation will give communities more power to combat “nuisance” properties linked to gang and drug crime. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said Thursday that...
View ArticleHells Angels hold annual 'Screwy ride' to honour slain East End biker
Approximately 100 Hells Angels members and affiliated clubs rallied at the HA East End Chapter on Saturday, April 6, 2019, as part of the Screwy Ride. The annual event is a memorial ride for slain...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Hells Angels ride as forfeiture case nears end
Hells Angels met at the East End clubhouse Saturday for their annual ride to commemorate murdered member Dave “Screwy” Swartz. As the government’s case over the forfeiture of three HA clubhouses nears...
View ArticleWould-be hitman says Bacon asked him to kill to clear drug debt
A former drug trafficking associate of Jamie Bacon testified Monday that he thought Bacon would forgive a $20,000 debt “if I killed someone for him.” The man, who can only be identified as CD due to a...
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