Another Metro gangster ordered deported

A gang associate with a criminal history has been ordered deported to his native Vietnam – a country he left when he was just a toddler.

Bi Dong (Adam) Lam appeared before the Immigration and Refugee Board in downtown Vancouver earlier this month where adjudicator Laura Ko said the crimes he had committed in Canada meant she had no choice but to order him deported.

The Canada Border Services Agency sought the removal of Lam, 28, because he had been convicted in 2014 of possessing a firearm in violation of a court order and also had a 2007 break and enter conviction stemming from a Langley home invasion.

Ko noted that the criminal code says a non-citizen is ineligible to stay in Canada if they have been sentenced to a minimum of six months for a crime that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years or more.

She said the CBSA “established all the essential elements of the allegation and, as I said, I am required by law to issue the deportation order against you, and I make that order at this time.”

Lam’s lawyer Linda Mark said “we are planning on filing an appeal to the Immigration Appeal Division and just let them decide on jurisdiction.”

Mark did not make any submissions on her client’s behalf at the March 8 hearing.

It was not the first time the gang associate had been ordered deported.

In November 2014, IRB member Trent Cook also found that Lam was inadmissible to remain in Canada based on the evidence of his criminal history provided by the CBSA.

Mark also said at the time that her client intended to appeal.

Cook focused his ruling on the 2014 gun conviction that came after Lam and gangster Matin Bin Laden Pouyan went to a Port Coquitlam gun range despite both being under court-ordered bans not to possess firearms because of earlier convictions.

They were arrested, charged and convicted. Pouyan was seriously wounded in a shooting last August.

Lam received a sentence of 107 days in jail.

At the time, Lam had a10-year firearms ban ordered in 2007 when he was convicted in the home invasion case for which he got a nine-month sentence.

He was also found guilty of impaired driving in September 2007 and given a day in jail and a year-long driving prohibition.

And he was also charged and acquitted in a 2009 shooting at a Surrey house party.

Cook warned Lam to stay out of trouble while his immigration status was under review.

But last year, Lam was arrested again by Vancouver Police.

He was charged along with well-known gangster Mohammad Masood (Mo) Rahimi with unlawful confinement, assault, using an imitation firearm and extortion in connection with a violent attack on a Vancouver man on April 1, 2015.

Rahimi has since vanished and is believed to have fled Canada. Lam was released on bail. His next court appearance is Aug. 24 in Vancouver Provincial Court.

The CBSA has sought the deportation of several B.C. gangsters in recent years.

In February, Abbotsford gang associate Jimi Sandhu, 26, lost an appeal of a deportation order issued after a string of convictions and interactions with police.

Sandhu also immigrated to Canada as a child, but never got citizenship.

And last year, the IRB ordered the deportation of UN gangster Barzan Tilli-Choli , who was convicted of plotting to murder the Bacon brothers.

He remains in a B.C. jail pending his removal to Iraq.