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REAL SCOOP: Gun charges stayed because of trial delay
I have been trying to keep track of cases where applications have been made to throw out charges because of delays in getting to trial. I wrote a feature about this in December which said there had...
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REAL SCOOP: Vancouver Island trafficker loses bid to throw out charges
A Greater Victoria man convicted of drug trafficking has lost his bid to have the charges thrown out because of trial delay. Zachary Scott Matheson, 39, was charged in February 2014 with four counts...
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REAL SCOOP: Seattle judge who blocked Trump's ban familiar to BC criminals
Long before Seattle Judge James L. Robart became a household name Friday for blocking U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration ban, he was well known to some B.C. criminals. Over the last decade,...
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REAL SCOOP: Witnesses will put Vallee at scene of LeClair murder: Crown
The Crown opened its case against accused United Nations gang killer Cory Vallee Monday. Most of the case will be admissions – including wiretaps and video surveillance. There will also be four former...
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Cory Vallee trial: Victim had quit UN gang to join Bacon brothers, alleges...
Before he was gunned down eight years ago Monday, Kevin LeClair had quit the United Nations to join the Bacon brothers and their Red Scorpion gang, a Crown prosecutor told B.C. Supreme Court on Monday....
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Last hour before fatal gang shooting captured on eerie surveillance video
In gripping silent video footage of the last moments before Kevin LeClair was fatally shot, he sits with two friends at the bar of a Langley restaurant, eating, drinking and chatting. LeClair, who was...
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REAL SCOOP: Eerie video captures hour before fatal gang shooting
I was back at the Cory Vallee murder trial Tuesday as Crown prosecutors read the admissions into the record that had already been agreed to by the defence. It was not the most gripping evidence – at...
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Witness 'hit the ground' when shots rang out in gang murder, trial hears
A man recalled Wednesday how he and others in a Langley grocery store eight years ago “hit the ground” when they heard the gunshots that killed gangster Kevin LeClair. Jan Kristensen testified that he...
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REAL SCOOP: Witness "hit the ground" when shot rang out, trial hears
A Langley man who was inside Browns Socialhouse right before Kevin LeClair was gunned down testified at the murder trial of Cory Vallee Wednesday. Jan Kristensen and his friend were just having a...
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Murder witness says gunman took out 'machine gun' and started firing at gang...
Florentin Pirvu was trying to park his car outside a Langley strip mall eight years ago when he saw a man pull a “machine gun” out of a black duffle bag and start firing at a truck just metres away....
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REAL SCOOP: Witness says man took gun from bag, began shooting
I was back at the Cory Vallee murder trial for part of Thursday. I heard the amazing testimony of Florentin Pirvu – a local resident who was trying to park his car when he came upon a murder unfolding...
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Woman convicted despite claiming drunk driving was to escape violent boyfriend
A Penticton woman who says she had no choice but to drive drunk to escape her violent boyfriend has been convicted of impaired driving. Shannon McMichael admitted she was both over the legal limit and...
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Convicted Air India terrorist Inderjit Reyat can now live at home: Parole...
The only man convicted in the 1985 Air India bombing no longer has to stay in a halfway house and can now live at his family home, the Parole Board of Canada has ruled. Inderjit Singh Reyat was...
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REAL SCOOP: Police identify murder victims in Vancouver, Port Coquitlam
Homicide investigators are asking for the public’s help in solving two recent murders in Vancouver and Port Coquitlam. On Tuesday, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team released the identity of...
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REAL SCOOP: Air India terrorist can now stay at home, parole board says
Inderjit Reyat is the only man ever convicted in Canada’s deadliest terrorist attack. And despite lying at the trial of his two co-accused and aiding in their acquittal, the Parole Board of Canada has...
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REAL SCOOP: Irish mobster from B.C. pleads guilty in Montreal drug case
Before he was arrested on Nov. 1, 2012 in a massive Quebec drug smuggling case, Shane Maloney was looking to buy real estate here in Metro Vancouver. Anti-gang police were concerned that the former...
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B.C. gangster pleads guilty in Montreal to role in international cocaine...
A B.C. gangster linked to one of the biggest arms seizures in Canadian history has pleaded guilty in Montreal to a series of drug, explosives and firearms charges. Prosecutors said Shane “Wheels”...
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REAL SCOOP: Murder in Abbotsford; shooting in Vancouver
Abbotsford Police responded to a shots fired call Monday morning and found a young man fatally wounded. And minutes later they took three men into custody. Const. Ian MacDonald said the shooting...
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Cory Vallee murder trial: Trucker testifies about seeing man run up to car...
Trucker Rob Johnson thought he’d driven up to a Burnaby movie set when he saw a man with a gun firing at a black sports car. Johnson recalled the May 2008 scene Monday at the murder trial of accused...
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REAL SCOOP: Trucker testifies about man shooting up sports car
It must have been quite a scene on Burnaby’s Kensington overpass almost nine years ago. A black sports car, like the new Jaguar at the time, or a Maserati, had a guy on foot run up to it and start...
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