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Gang associates sentenced after trafficking and firearms convictions
Two well-known gang associates arrested two years ago after an investigation into a drug ring have been convicted and sentenced. Isaac Drennan, 34, pleaded guilty to firearms and trafficking charges...
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Former Surrey coach pleads guilty for soliciting sex with child
A former Surrey soccer coach has pleaded guilty in a Seattle courtroom to soliciting sex with a person he believed was a 12-year-old girl. Kuldip (Kelly) Mahal, 47, was arrested in February 2015 at a...
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VPD trying to identify three men taking photos at Pacific Centre Mall – UPDATE
JAN. 15 UPDATE: VPD Chief Adam Palmer issued the statement below about this story. He said the photos that went viral on social media were leaked to the media and the VPD did not release them. The Sun...
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VPD says mall photographers “completely innocent”
Vancouver police investigators have located and talked to three men seen photographing inside Pacific Centre Mall this week. “All three men were cooperative with investigators and they had a very...
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Two shootings in Abbotsford overnight: UPDATED
Abbotsford Police are investigating two incidents of shots fired that came just hours apart late Sunday and early this morning. The latest shooting occurred at 12:13 a.m. in the 31500-block of...
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Police get gang informants to reject code of silence (with video)
Former mobster Lou Ferrante still remembers the day in 1991 that he heard the shocking news that Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano had betrayed the Gambino family and was going to testify against John...
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Two men involved in fatal attack by Hells Angels lose appeal
Two young men who watched the fatal beating of a Kelowna man by two Hells Angels have lost an appeal of their manslaughter convictions. Even though Matthew McRae and Anson Schell didn’t inflict the...
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Sun Run training a little tougher coming off a knee injury
Here we go! I just survived the first training session for my Sun Run group out of the Hillcrest Community Centre. I was a bit worried about the 44-minute run since I’m still rehabbing a knee I hurt...
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Three-year jail term for man caught with 10 kilos of cocaine: UPDATE
HEY READERS: I’m out of town starting tomorrow morning and not back till Tuesday evening. That means I have to close comments as there won’t be anyone to go through them. Original story: A gangster...
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More UN arrests in conspiracy to kill the Bacon brothers
Two members of the United Nations gang have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder in connection with an underworld plot to kill the Bacon brothers and their Red Scorpion associates. Charged...
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Metro Vancouver gang busted in Alberta
Four people linked to a Lower Mainland group dubbed the Surrey Boys are facing dozens of firearms and drug trafficking charges in Alberta. The four were arrested in Grand Prairie after a three-month...
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Air India families want to know why Reyat wasn’t detained past stat release
Air India victims’ relatives want to know why no effort was made to keep convicted terrorist Inderjit Singh Reyat in jail beyond his statutory release date. Reyat was released from custody Wednesday to...
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Hey Sun runners, you can still do your training when you’re out of town
What do you do when you are on the Sun Run training schedule and you have the good fortune of getting a winter break in the sun? Do you stay home in the rain because you’re worried you’ll miss your...
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Major cocaine smugglers lose appeal
They were convicted of smuggling a tonne of cocaine from Panama to Port Hardy on a sailing vessel called the Huntress. But commercial diver Scott Pedersen and Mexican citizen Vincente Serrano-Hernandez...
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Man shot in Port Coquitlam had gang links, previous convictions
Yonatan (JK) Kassa had gang links and convictions for drug trafficking and a violent home invasion when he was shot to death Jan. 22. But friends who have raised over $9,000 for his family online are...
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Man murdered in Granville Street apartment
Vancouver Police investigators remained on the scene Sunday of a murder inside an apartment building in the 2400-block of Granville Street. The VPD was called to the Edwards Block, a historic...
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Damion Ryan released after allegedly breaching Ontario bail conditions
A B.C. man who is now a member of the elite Nomads chapter of the Ontario Hells Angels has been arrested in B.C. Damion Ryan was out on bail on drug and weapons charges filed in the Ottawa area when he...
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Bikers lose bid to get Nanaimo clubhouse back pending trial
It’s been more than eight years since the Nanaimo Hells Angels have had access to their Victoria Road clubhouse. They were kicked out in November 2007 when the B.C. government filed a civil forfeiture...
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Charges laid after VPD investigation into drug ring
Six people who allegedly trafficked fentanyl and other drugs in B.C. and Alberta are now facing a total of 42 charges. The six were arrested after a seven-month investigation by Vancouver Police into...
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Sun Run training takes all the stress away!
A month ago, the only real concern I had was whether or not I would be able to get through the Sun Run training given that I had injured a knee in November. Newsroom friends had done the Sun Run blog...
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