IHIT searching for suspect in domestic murder in Cloverdale
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is looking for a man named Barrie McQuarrie in connection with the murder late last night in Surrey. IHIT’s Sgt. Adam MacIntosh said in a release that...
View ArticleSex trade workers still getting killed a decade after Pickton’s arrest
Unsolved murders: Deadly danger on the stroll By Mike Hager and Kim Bolan Sharon Anne Dietrich, Michelle Caroline Choiniere and Lisa Arlene Francis. They were sex trade workers murdered, then dumped...
View ArticleDefence suggests Le made deal not to implicate Bacon in Surrey Six
Red Scorpion founder Michael Le testified Tuesday that he knew nothing about a 2013 conversation in which his lawyer allegedly offered assurances to Jamie Bacon’s lawyer that Le would not implicate...
View ArticlePart 5 of our unsolved homicide series: Coping with Complexity
In a meeting room somewhere in the Lower Mainland, about a dozen members of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team are gathered around a boardroom table. The fast food wrappers and drink bottles...
View ArticlePoliticians and experts call for change to B.C. charge approval standard
B.C. should abandon its higher standard for laying charges and fall in line with other provinces, they say BY KIM BOLAN AND MIKE HAGER B.C.’s higher standard for laying criminal charges should be...
View ArticleMan fatally stabbed during deadly fight in Surrey Wednesday night
Just before 10 p.m. Wednesday, Surrey RCMP responded to a report of a disturbance in the 9300-block of 132 Street. They found a 39-year-old man with serious stab wounds. He was transported to hospital...
View ArticleSix more cases added to our database of unsolved murders
The Vancouver Sun is adding six more names to our database of unsolved homicides across the Lower Mainland from 2003 to 2012. After hearing from family members of murder victims who were...
View ArticleKamloops man gets 11.5 years in California jail
A B.C. man who operated an international cocaine smuggling ring from Mexico has been sentenced to more than 11 years in a California jail. John Darrel Krokos, of Kamloops, was handed the prison term...
View ArticleFugitive Hells Angel deported to U.S. after Langley arrest
It was his tattoos that gave American Hells Angel fugitive Troy Andrew Scholder away. An alert Mountie noticed H-A-M-C across the fingers of his right hand, for Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, and...
View Article73 witnesses later, Crown closes its case at Surrey Six trial
Eileen Mohan has been waiting a long time for justice for her murdered son Christopher – one of two bystanders caught in the Surrey Six slaughter. As the Crown closed its case against accused killers...
View ArticleSon of slain Renegades president back in jail in Prince George
Nine years after his biker dad was gunned down outside his Prince George home, 22-year-old Ryan John Moore is back in jail, potentially facing an onslaught of new firearms charges. Moore was pulled...
View ArticleFormer Kingpin Crew member charged with trafficking in Kelowna
A former member of the now defunct Kingpin Crew has been charged with trafficking and weapons offences after an investigation by Kelowna RCMP that started in February 2013. Quentin James, 31, was...
View ArticleHaevischer’s lawyer says there’s no evidence he was part of planning Surrey...
A lawyer for accused Surrey Six killer Cody Haevischer says there’s no evidence his client was involved in plotting the murder of rival drug dealer Corey Lal. And Simon Buck asked Justice Catherine...
View ArticleIHIT announces arrest in murder of hockey mom Julie Paskall
Family and friends of the Julie Paskall got the news they had been waiting for when the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announced Friday that an arrest had been made in the slaying of the hockey...
View ArticleYosef Jomo Gopaul charged in murder that shook Surrey – UPDATE
Yosef Jomo Gopaul made his first appearance in Surrey Provincial Court this morning and was remanded to June 13th. He’s being represented by Simon Buck, who’s well-known on this blog as the lawyer for...
View ArticleAbbotsford Police investigate double shooting
Abbotsford Police got several 911 calls about shots fired about 1:15 am Sunday near Lefeuvre Road south of Fraser Highway. As patrol officers and the Emergency Response Team were en route to the area,...
View ArticleParole documents reveal violent history of Julie Paskall’s accused killer
The man charged in the murder of Surrey hockey mom Julie Paskall was considered a high risk to re-offend after an Ontario conviction for attacking another woman on New Year’s day 2010. Parole Board of...
View ArticleMike Adiwal gets four-month sentence for 2011 assault
A high-profile Metro gangster has been sentenced to four months in jail for his role in a May 2011 assault at a Chilliwack lumber mill. Manjit (Mike) Adiwal pleaded guilty last fall to assault for...
View ArticleSurrey Six judge dismisses Haevischer’s application to toss conspiracy count
The prosecution in the Surrey Six murder case won a significant victory Wednesday when a B.C. Supreme Court judge dismissed an application from one of the accused to throw out the conspiracy charge...
View ArticleGlenn Sheck wants loaded gun charges stayed because of court delays
First, Surrey resident Glenn Harley Sheck successfully fought to be sentenced to less than the three-year mandatory minimum after his conviction for carrying a loaded handgun into an Earl’s restaurant....
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