Jimi Sandhu loses appeal of deportation order
A longtime Abbotsford gang associate has been ordered deported to India even though he left his birth country as a seven-year-old to live with relatives in B.C. Jimi Sandhu, 26, lost an appeal of the...
View ArticleFormer airport worker loses court battle over security clearance
A former Vancouver airport worker will not be able to get the security clearance needed for her job because of gang associations more than a decade ago. Federal Court of Canada Judge Richard Mosley has...
View ArticleCharges laid after triple shooting at Shuswap Lake home
One of three victims of a shooting in Celista, B.C. Feb. 7 has now died of his injuries. The identity of the 50-year-old murder victim has not been released. Police arrested local resident Richard...
View ArticleTwo men wounded in Surrey shooting
Just before 11 p.m. Saturday, two young men arrived at a Surrey hospital with gunshot wounds. Surrey RCMP was called in to investigated. “Upon arrival, officers confirmed that both males had been...
View ArticleRaj Soomel pleaded with his killers to “hold on,” trial hears
Before Rajinder Soomel was shot to death in the middle of Cambie Street six years ago, he shouted at his killers to “hold on, hold on, hold on,” a Crown prosecutor told B.C. Supreme Court Tuesday....
View ArticleShots fired at a Surrey taxi, injuring passenger
Surrey RCMP is investigating a shooting into a local taxi which left a 40-year-old man with injuries. Just after 5 a.m. Thursday, Mounties responded to a call of shots fired in the area of 143 Street...
View ArticleMore charges laid in investigation targeting Fraser Valley drug gang
Five more Chilliwack men are facing 50 charges in connection with a major investigation by Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit into a Fraser Valley drug trafficking organization operating in...
View ArticleBralorne man says his drug smuggling was to save his town
A B.C. man who admits he flew a helicopter full of drugs into Washington state last summer says he only did so to save the tiny town of Bralorne. Bruce Simon, 51, who pleaded guilty to smuggling...
View ArticleThree men plead guilty in drug case linked to Hells Angels, ban lifted
Details of a major undercover investigation into the Hells Angels and associates have been revealed at sentencing hearings of two men who have pleaded guilty in the case. In the 2012 probe, the RCMP...
View ArticleHalfway house worker describes terrifying night of Soomel murder
Jurors at a Vancouver murder trial heard a chilling description from a former halfway house worker about the night one of his charges was gunned down on Cambie Street. A video of Roger Woelke’s...
View ArticleSun Run support comes from many people along the way!
I can’t believe we are almost halfway! My running is going great – better than expected. My knee is holding up. My Wednesday night Run Stronger group is faster than the one I was with last year. I’m...
View ArticleHells Angel told undercover cops that his “family” and “brothers” backed him
Accused drug trafficker and Hells Angel David Giles told undercover police officers that his “brothers” would take over his massive cocaine deal if anything were to happen to him. Giles tried to...
View ArticleButtar faces gun charges after calling police for imaginary gunshots
A longtime gangster who works as a longshoreman at Port Metro Vancouver has been charged with possessing a loaded firearm and two other gun counts. Manjit (Mani) Buttar, 41, was arrested Feb. 11 just...
View ArticleHA associate tried to smash BlackBerry during arrest, trial hears
When police moved in to make arrests in a drug investigation targeting the Hells Angels, an associate threw his BlackBerry to the ground and kicked it away, B.C. Supreme Court heard Wednesday. Kevin...
View ArticleChilliwack gang associate sentenced to 8 years for home invasion
A long-time gang associate convicted in a violent 2013 home invasion in Chilliwack has been sentenced to eight years in jail. Minus time-served in pre-trial custody, Curtis Vidal received a net jail...
View ArticleMore charges against suspects in the Surrey-Delta gang conflict
Three young men are facing 18 new charges after an investigation into a drug trafficking group linked to a violent gang conflict in Surrey and Delta last year. Davjit Singh Randhawa, 32, Chaten Singh...
View ArticleUN gangster has first-degree murder conviction re-instated
When Jack and Doreen Rozen learned Thursday that the Supreme Court of Canada had reinstated a first-degree murder conviction against the killer of their son Marc, they went to his West Vancouver grave...
View ArticleWeek 6: Running pet peeves!
OK, I know I haven’t been a real runner for all that long. But I still have some pet peeves. I’m sure many others out there share some of these. And you likely have many more of your own! So let’s...
View ArticleMurder trial hears how halfway house resident escaped gunman
A former resident of a Vancouver halfway house described being chased onto the roof by a gun-toting masked man, then jumping to a nearby tree to make his escape on Sept. 29, 2009. Jeremy Coles...
View ArticleInmate dies after altercation at Fraser Regional Correctional Centre
Homicide investigators are looking into the death of an inmate at Fraser Regional Correctional Centre on Saturday. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said Mounties were called to the Maple...
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