REAL SCOOP: Karbovanec shooter takes the stand at Bacon trial
Jurors heard for the first time Monday from the man who admits he attempted to kill Dennis Karbovanec back on New Year’s Eve 2008. It was an interesting day. There are bans in place, but here’s the...
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'Thought I had missed': Would-be hitman says he was 'frantic' after botched...
A former drug dealer indebted to Jamie Bacon said Tuesday that he felt “frantic” after failing to kill Dennis Karbovanec on a dead-end Mission street more than a decade ago. The man, who can only be...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Shooter thought Karbovanec would kill him after botched hit
There was lots of interesting evidence as CD continued his testimony on the witness stand at the Bacon trial Tuesday. He said he was very worried that after the failed hit, Dennis Karbovanec would find...
View ArticleJamie Bacon trial: Key Crown witness says his crew was named for 'loaded guns'
A key Crown witness at the Jamie Bacon trial admitted Wednesday that he started in the drug trade as a 16-year-old, working on others’ dial-a-dope lines before eventually starting his own. And the man,...
View ArticleJudge rules 'provocation' defence too narrow
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled that a 2015 criminal code change limiting when an accused killer can use the defence of provocation is unconstitutional. Justice Douglas Thompson said that the...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: CD begins cross-examination at the Bacon trial
I haven’t been in the Bacon trial since Wednesday but hope to be back Monday and Tuesday where the cross-examination of witness CD will continue. He is expected to be on the stand for several more...
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Notorious B.C. drug smuggler arrested again
Less than a year after B.C. skipper John ‘Phil’ Stirling was released from a U.S. prison where he served seven years for cocaine smuggling, the controversial sea captain is back behind bars. Stirling,...
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REAL SCOOP: Skipper with history of smuggling arrested again
I haven’t written about John “Phil” Stirling since 2013 when he was convicted in Florida of cocaine smuggling and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. Now he has been arrested again after...
View ArticleCross-examination of star witness continues at Jamie Bacon trial
A lawyer for Jamie Bacon grilled the key Crown witness against him Monday over lapses in the man’s memory from a 2010 interview that he gave to police. The man, who can only be identified as CD,...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: CD still on the stand at the Bacon trial
Here is a little more from cross-examination of CD – the man who shot Dennis Karbovanec – at the Jamie Bacon trial. He is expected to continue all week. I will try to be back for his testimony...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Fatal shooting in Kitsilano
Vancouver Police are investigating a fatal shooting at Kitsilano Tuesday night that left a man dead. Police received calls about shots fired about 8:30 p.m. near West 4th Avenue and Burrard Street. The...
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Police identify shooting victim in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood
Vancouver police are looking for witnesses after a Vancouver man was gunned down in his vehicle in Kitsilano on Tuesday night. Manoj Kumar, 30, died near West Fourth and Burrard around 8:30 p.m. after...
View ArticleStar witness at Bacon trial says he has clear memory of murder plot meeting
A key Crown witness at the Jamie Bacon trial testified Thursday that he clearly remembers a December 2008 meeting at Bacon’s Abbotsford home after which he was told he would have to kill Dennis...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: CD says he has clear memory of Bacon meeting
On Thursday at the Jamie Bacon trial, his lawyer Kimberly Eldred continued to question CD about his various statements to police over the years. NOTE: I am closing comments for the long weekend Here’s...
View ArticleDavid Eby says government still weighing public inquiry on money laundering
The B.C. government will make a decision on a public inquiry into money laundering after carefully considering two reports that it recently received on the issue, Attorney General David Eby said...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: VPD looking for information about car linked to murder
Vancouver Police investigating the slaying last week of local resident Manoj Kumar are hoping someone has dash-cam video of a vehicle linked to the shooting. Kumar, 30, was shot to death near West 4th...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Another murder in Surrey Tuesday
Homicide detectives are now investigating after a man was found in critical condition on a Surrey street Tuesday. Surrey RCMP said in a news release that police were called by Emergency Health Services...
View ArticleUN gang founder Clay Roueche gets U.S. sentence cut
United Nations gang founder Clay Roueche has been granted a reduction in his 30-year sentence after telling a Seattle judge last month that he is a changed man. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Robert...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Rouche wins appeal for lower sentence
United Nations gang founder Clay Roueche wrote his own legal arguments last month trying to take advantage of new sentencing guidelines in the U.S. implemented long after he was handed a 30-year term...
View ArticleU.S. seeks to seize assets of Richmond criminal who aided international...
Richmond's Vincent Ramos admits he made $80 million in the past decade helping international organized crime groups like the Sinaloa cartel by selling them encrypted untraceable electronic devices....
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