Doing other sports can help your Sun Run training
We are over the half-way mark of our Sun Run 2019 training! It’s amazing how fast the program flies by. The snow is mostly gone. Our Run 10K Hillcrest group is now running for much longer stretches....
View ArticleBacon trial witness admits crew prepared to kill second man
A witness at the Jamie Bacon trial admitted Monday that his crew was prepared to kill a second associate the night it targeted Dennis Karbovanec more than a decade ago. The man, who can only be...
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REAL SCOOP: Crown witness says his crew was prepared to kill Johnston
AB – the former associate of Jamie Bacon now testifying against him – was back under cross-examination Monday by Bacon defence lawyer Kimberly Eldred. Bacon seemed very involved in his defence, writing...
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Parts of Hells Angels report ruled inadmissible at civil forfeiture trial
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has criticized an “expert” report about the Hells Angels filed by the Director of Civil Forfeiture as full of biased, unsubstantiated claims about the biker club. Justice...
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REAL SCOOP: Ruling cuts parts of expert report in HA civil forfeiture case
The B.C. government’s civil forfeiture case against the Hells Angels took a hit this week when a judge struck parts of an “expert” report the government filed in support of its efforts to get three...
View ArticleBacon witness says he didn't panic when gunman opened fire
A witness at the Jamie Bacon trial said Wednesday that he didn’t run away as bullets “whizzed by” his head during an attempted murder a decade ago because he knew the gunman wasn’t aiming at him. The...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Witness says bullets "whizzed by" his head, but he didn't run
The cross-examination of AB is winding down at the Jamie Bacon trial. He held his ground Wednesday when Bacon’s lawyer Kimberly Eldred suggested the shooting of Dennis Karbovanec wasn’t premeditated,...
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Kamloops hit with unprecedented level of gang violence
KAMLOOPS — Sonia Dhaliwal was working at the front desk of the Super 8 Motel on Jan. 23 when someone told her a man was lying in the parking lot outside. Cody Mathieu was found shot dead in the parking...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: James Vidal gunned down in Chilliwack
Just getting back to the blog after being up in Kamloops earlier this week to research a story on the gang violence that has plagued the community this year. So I have yet to post on the murder of...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: Man linked to Brothers Keepers shot at training centre
Just months after his brother Harb survived a Richmond shooting, Meninder Dhaliwal was wounded by gunfire outside a longshore workers training centre on Mitchell Island March 23. Both men, originally...
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REAL SCOOP: Kamloops facing unprecedented gang violence
Kamloops had three fatal shootings in the first six weeks of 2019 – a record for the small hub city. Contributing to the problem are bigger city gangs that have some control over the local Kamloops...
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United Nations gang founder appeals 2009 U.S. sentence
United Nations gang founder Clay Roueche says he is a changed man after serving a decade in a U.S. prison, and he wants his 30-year sentence for drug smuggling and money laundering reduced to 21 years...
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REAL SCOOP: Roueche appeals for reduction in 30-year sentence
United Nations gang founder Clay Roueche wants the judge who sentenced him to 30 years back in 2009 to knock a few years off his sentence. Roueche is representing himself in trying to get his term...
View ArticleVPD constable convicted of uttering a threat in off-duty incident
A Vancouver police constable has been convicted of uttering a threat to a furniture store owner after a dispute over a dresser that tipped onto his young son. Constable Deepak Kumar Sood told the owner...
View ArticleSilver International owners want forfeiture suit tossed
A lawyer for the Richmond company alleged to be at the centre of B.C.’s biggest money laundering case wants a civil forfeiture suit against their clients thrown out. Matthew Nathanson, one of Silver...
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International fugitive linked to B.C. men charged in China and Thailand
Two B.C. men now in prisons in China and Thailand on serious drug charges were allegedly working for an international fugitive wanted in both Canada and the U.S., Postmedia has learned. Khamla Wong, a...
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REAL SCOOP: UN associate linked to B.C. men jailed in China and Thailand
Back in January, former Abbotsford resident Robert Schellenberg told a court in China that the man behind an international drug ring that he got caught in was Khamla Wong. Wong, of course, has a long...
View ArticleUN gang killer fighting for settlement for 2011 prison beating
A lawyer for a convicted killer and United Nations gang member wants the federal government to honour a settlement offer made last summer after a jailhouse beating eight years ago. Tonia Grace wrote to...
View ArticleREAL SCOOP: UN killer wants pay out for prison attack
I first reported on United Nations gang killer Michael Newman’s suit against the federal government back in 2014, alleging Kent Institution officers were negligent by placing him in an area where rival...
View ArticleBacon trial: Nurse recalls frantic shooting victim arriving at hospital
In grainy surveillance video from New Year’s Eve 2008, Dennis Karbovanec can be seen walking quickly across a street and toward Mission Memorial Hospital. Dressed in a white jacket and white shoes,...
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