REAL SCOOP: Police looking for Surrey shooting suspect
Surrey Mounties are searching for a suspect after a targeted shooting left one man with injuries about 8:40 a.m. Thursday. Cpl. Scotty Schumann said in a news release that the shooting occurred near...
View ArticleGuyanese police and judiciary aided by Vancouver justice project
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Members of the Guyana Police Force have set up yellow crime tape and cordoned off the area where local minibus driver Tedroy James was shot to death an hour earlier. The driver was...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Murder charge stayed in Jamie Bacon case
Eileen Mohan is calling Friday the worst day of her life. She learned this afternoon that murder and conspiracy charges against accused Surrey Six killer Jamie Bacon were stayed by B.C. Supreme Court...
View ArticleJudge orders release of evidence to Surrey Six killers for appeal
Lawyers for convicted Surrey Six killers Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston will be reviewing new evidence ordered released to them Friday to see if it will impact their clients’ appeals. Johnston’s...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Bacon docs to be provided to Johnston, Haevischer
Surrey Six victims families and other members of the public are still trying to figure out why a judge stayed charges against accused killer Jamie Bacon on Friday. Lawyers for his former co-accused...
View ArticleJamie Bacon to apply for bail: Lawyer
Days after murder and conspiracy charges were stayed against Jamie Bacon, the notorious gangster is applying to be released on bail on his remaining charge, his lawyer confirmed Monday. Kimberly Eldred...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Bacon hopes for bail hearing before Christmas
Jamie Bacon is hoping to spend his first Christmas outside of jail since 2008. His lawyer Kimberly Eldred told me Monday that her client hopes to have a bail hearing sometime before the holiday. Here’s...
View ArticleLongtime B.C. judge Jim Jardine remembered as 'a lawyer's lawyer'
A longtime Surrey judge who successfully prosecuted two of B.C.’s biggest terrorism cases has died after a short illness. Jim Jardine, 70, was a well-known Vancouver prosecutor and defence lawyer...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Man injured in Surrey shooting
A man was injured in a shooting in Newton about 8 pm Tuesday, Surrey RCMP said in a release. Mounties responded to a report of shots fired in the intersection of 148 Street and 64 Ave. “The initial...
View ArticleVancouver police to unveil massive seizure of guns, drugs, and bombs
Police say they have made a significant seizure of guns, drugs, explosive devices and stolen property from suspects who’ve been involved in the Lower Mainland gang conflict. Vancouver Police and the...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Judge suggests she feels sorry for Hells Angel killer
A Surrey provincial court judge says she can’t imagine how badly Jason Wallace feels after fatally shooting Hells Angel Bob Green in October 2016. During a sentencing hearing last month, Judge Ellen...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Langley farm used to get ready for hits: police
Last month several media outlets were reporting about a very large police presence at a Langley farmhouse at 4096 240th Street. On Wednesday we got more details from investigators about firearms,...
View ArticleJamie Bacon's 'true love' dies of an overdose on day of his court win
Kelowna resident Madison Fine made her way to Vancouver last week to be near boyfriend Jamie Bacon when the ruling came down throwing out his murder charge. But the 25-year-old convicted drug...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Bacon's "true love" dies as his charges stayed
I had heard about Madison Fine’s tragic overdose from several sources and from Real Scoop readers. So I confirmed details of what happened and have written this story. Her family obviously saw her...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Murder victim charged in Vancouver last summer
A young man shot to death in Langley last week was before the courts in Vancouver at the time he was shot. Details of the charges laid in August against Dai Duong Duong, 21, were under a publication...
View ArticleCrown files appeal of Jamie Bacon's stay of proceedings
The B.C. attorney-general will appeal a controversial court ruling earlier this month to stay murder and conspiracy charges against gangster Jamie Bacon in the Surrey Six slayings. The B.C. Prosecution...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Crown appeals Bacon ruling on murder charges
After a devastating week imagining that Jamie Bacon might soon be free, Eileen Mohan received some good news Monday – the Crown has filed an appeal of the decision to stay murder charges against the...
View ArticleAccused B.C. drug smuggler loses extradition battle
Accused B.C. drug smuggler Colin Martin was expected to be transported to Washington state Thursday after the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed his attempt to appeal an extradition order. Martin, who...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Colin Martin loses years-long extradition fight
Colin Martin has been fighting for years to avoid extradition to the U.S. on drug smuggling charges. All but one of his Canadian co-accused have had their charges dealt with in Seattle and been...
View ArticleJamie Bacon's bail hearing begins at Vancouver Law Courts
Red Scorpion gangster Jamie Bacon appeared in B.C. Supreme Court Friday for the start of a bail hearing expected to be completed on Dec. 22. Because of a routine ban on publication, no details of the...
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