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B.C. medical pot licence numbers triple in a year
The total number of medical marijuana possession and production licences in B.C. almost tripled in 2012 from 9,097 to 24,963, Health Canada statistics show. By Dec. 31, 2012, there were 13,362 licences...
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Surrey Six cops facing charges finally have lawyers – UPDATE
The RCMP won’t confirm whether it has agreed to pay the legal fees for four Mounties charged after their work on the Surrey Six murder case. Sgt. Julie Gagnon, a media relations officer in Ottawa, said...
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Richmond man pleads guilty in double slaying
A Richmond man pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court Thursday to killing his estranged wife and her male companion at a busy McDonald’s restaurant in August 2009. Through a Mandarin interpreter, Chang...
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Sean Doak ordered extradited by B.C. Supreme Court judge
Accused cross-border drug smuggler Sean Doak was taken into custody Friday morning after a B.C. Supreme Court judge ordered him to be committed for extradition to the United States. Doak’s lawyer Gary...
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Supreme Court to decide on prisoner transfers from US
The BC Civil Liberties Association will be in the Supreme Court of Canada Monday arguing in favour of a prisoner transfer for Pierino Divito, a 75-year convicted trafficker with purported links to the...
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Vancouver Police make arrest in 2006 murder; Body found in Abbotsford
For years, Vancouver resident Gurpreet Gill was simply a missing person whose desperate family awaited answers about what happened to her. Now she has been confirmed as a murder victim and her husband...
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Judge upholds gang logo ruling against Kelowna nightclub
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has upheld a liquor branch ruling that a Kelowna nightclub violated its licence by allowing a patron wearing gang clothing inside. But Justice Geoff Barrow also agreed with...
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RCMP still searching for man linked to apartment with dynamite
No arrests have yet been made in connection with dynamite, small bombs, cocaine and firearms found at a Burnaby high-rise that was searched by the RCMP Monday night. Mounties executing a search warrant...
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RCMP search for suspect after West Kelowna double slaying – UPDATE
West Kelowna resident Peter Raitt heard a loud thud outside his condo late Monday, but thought nothing of it until after police arrived. He learned Tuesday that two people were found slain inside a...
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Rob Sidhu makes first appearance in a Seattle courtroom
A former B.C. Mountie facing cocaine smuggling charges in the United States made his first appearance in a Seattle courtroom Tuesday. Rapinder Singh Sidhu, 45, was handed over to the Americans - 18...
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West Kelowna murder victim convicted in US helicopter smuggling case
A young man killed in a targeted slaying in West Kelowna Monday night was earlier convicted in U.S. for his role in a helicopter drug smuggling ring. Jeremy Daniel Snow, 33, and Tiffany June Goruk, 30,...
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Michael Newman guilty of first-degree murder
Jack and Doreen Rozen hugged, cried and thanked police, the Crown and a B.C. Supreme Court judge Wednesday after United Nations gangster Michael Newman was convicted of murdering their son in January...
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Body found in Surrey car; Another Vancouver man charged in Toronto murder
This news day is not slowing down. While I spent my day covering the Michael Newman murder conviction, as well as the new information in the West Kelowna double homicide, there are other important...
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Missing Surrey man found slain in car
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has confirmed that a dead man found inside a car Wednesday night is Vimal Chand, 29. Chand was reported missing my his family just days ago and Surrey RCMP...
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Judge hands Michael Newman after moving victim impact statements
Jack Rozen thought he had endured the worst pain when his parents and brothers died in the Holocaust. But he told a B.C. Supreme Court judge Wednesday that the brutal slaying of his only son nine...
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Kelowna’s Matt Schrader charged with trafficking
Kelowna gangster Matthew Schrader and his girlfriend have been charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking after police executed a search warrant on their home earlier this month. Kelowna...
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IHIT called in to investigate body found in south Surrey
Homicide investigators are poring over the scene where a body was found in the 12100 block of Colebrook Road Sunday afternoon. Cpl. Bari Emam, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said Surrey...
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Charges expected to be announced in Jon Bacon murder case – UPDATE
Charges are expected to be announced Monday in connection with the brazen Aug. 2011 Kelowna gang shooting that saw Red Scorpion Jon Bacon killed, Hells Angel Larry Amero and Independent Soldier James...
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Three Dhak associates charged in Bacon murder – UPDATE
Three gangsters linked to the late Sukh Dhak have been charged with killing Red Scorpion Jon Bacon and wounding four of his associates in a brazen daylight shooting outside a Kelowna luxury hotel in...
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Former realtor arranged meet for 2011 kidnapping: Crown
A Vancouver man now in jail in California was kidnapped and threatened with torture and death in October 2011 over missing money he had promised to send to the U.S., B.C. Supreme Court heard Tuesday....
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