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Inmate at Surrey Pretrial jail dies after altercation with cellmate
A 25-year-old inmate at Surrey Pretrial jail died early Thursday after an altercation with his roommate the night before. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is now in charge of the case. IHIT...
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REAL SCOOP: Another Surrey pretrial inmate dies in custody
Just last week, I broke the story about UBC sex assault suspect David Singh Tucker found dead in his cell at Surrey Pretrial after a suspected drug overdose. While now another inmate has died while in...
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Surrey's search for a new police chief is down to three
As drug gang and gun violence continues in Surrey, city officials and Mounties have shortlisted three candidates to lead the country’s largest RCMP detachment. Mayor Linda Hepner said Thursday that a...
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B.C. Corrections officers' union says jail violence on the rise again
The union representing B.C. Corrections officers says the latest death at the Surrey Pretrial Services Centre is part of the escalating violence in the province’s jails. Dean Purdy, of the B.C....
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VanCity employee fired for criminal boyfriend, files human rights complaint
A former VanCity employee has filed a human rights complaint against the credit union alleging she was unfairly dismissed because her boyfriend at the time had criminal links. The woman, identified...
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REAL SCOOP: Surrey will soon have a new head Mountie
I am already away on holidays and left without putting a few of my latest stories on The Real Scoop, so I’m doing that now since I haven’t had much internet here on Hornby Island. Of interest to many...
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REAL SCOOP: Stats show rising violence in B.C. jails
I have written a number of stories over the last 18 months about the increasing violence in B.C. jails. There were two deaths just days apart last week. Here’s my follow up story which was written for...
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REAL SCOOP: VanCity employee fired for criminal boyfriend, files human rights...
This was an interesting story we learned about from an interim ruling by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. A woman identified only as C claims she was discriminated against by VanCity credit union when...
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REAL SCOOP: Arrests and charges in Surrey gang conflict
Several young men have been arrested and charged in connection with the on-going violence in Surrey. As I said, I am out of town on vacation, but thought I would at least post the news release for you...
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REAL SCOOP: Twins get 2 years for role in UN murders
The general public may not have heard much of the Murphy twins – David and Ryan – 42-year-old brothers who were involved in the United Nations gang for years. Neither had a criminal record before...
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Two UN gang associates released from jail with special conditions
Two men with links to the United Nations gang will be released from prison, but with special conditions imposed by the Parole Board of Canada. Ion Kroitoru, also known as Johnny K-9, has been ordered...
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REAL SCOOP: Two men with UN links to be released from prison
I just received parole board documents for two people who’ve had United Nations gang links over the years. Both are getting out of prison. And both have had special conditions imposed by the Parole...
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Murder charge laid in fatal Fraser Valley shooting earlier this year
A Chilliwack man has been charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his associate earlier this year. Daniel Joseph Fabas, 34, was already facing firearms charges after Dave Williams...
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REAL SCOOP: Murder charge laid in Chilliwack slaying
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team announce Thursday that a murder charged had been laid in a fatal shooting from last April. The accused Daniel Fabas has a criminal history and knew the victim...
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REAL SCOOP: Gangsta rapper appears in court Friday on gun charges
John Carlton Lewis, aka General Beanz, appeared briefly in Vancouver Provincial Court Friday on the gun charges laid against him last May. As you recall, he’s alleged to have pulled a firearm at a...
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Police looking for information on Chilliwack murder victim
Homicide investigators want the public’s help in determining what a Chilliwack murder victim was doing before her fatal Sept. 2 shooting. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team confirmed that the...
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REAL SCOOP: Prison lawsuit going to trial next June
Chris Iser was arrested in Vancouver’s Kensington Park in October 2010 as Gang Task Force members descended on him and several other gangsters in the Knight Street park that day. They had all just been...
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REAL SCOOP: IHIT looking for information in the hours before Chilliwack murder
Homicide investigators told us Sept. 2 about a double shooting in Chilliwack that left a 52-year-old woman dead and a young man fighting for his life. Now we have the identity of the woman and police...
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Prison must provide more documents in suit by injured gangster
Officials with the Correctional Service of Canada must provide more information to lawyers for a gang-linked inmate permanently injured in a 2012 prison attack. B.C. Supreme Court Judge Peter Voith...
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Surrey crack shack killer getting day parole — again
A convicted killer who pledged to turn her life around has been granted day parole for a third time — after violating conditions on two previous releases from prison. Joanna Larson, now 45, pleaded...
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