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Cartel plot to kill Riach and Espadilla: Police
Police in the Philippines say they have intelligence about a plot by a Mexican cartel to kill Vancouver gangsters arrested last week as part of a drug trafficking ring. Rommell Vallejo, chief of the...
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Kidnapping trial of five gangsters starts at Vancouver Law Courts
Five gangsters used sophisticated tracking devices and encrypted blackberries as they plotted to kidnap a wealthy Metro Vancouver man in an attempt at a million-dollar ransom, B.C. Supreme Court heard...
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How much are you spending in gas to avoid the Port Mann? (calculator)
My colleague Kelly Sinoski has an interesting story today about how people may be spending more money to avoid the Port Mann than they’re saving in tolls. As Kelly points out, there are a lot of...
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Police-involved shooting in White Rock
Coquitlam RCMP’s serious crime unit has been called in to investigate a shooting in White Rock about noon Wednesday by a plain clothes Mountie during a drug investigation. No one was hurt and three...
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Full-patch Hells Angels plead guilty to killing Dain Phillips in 2011
Two full-patch members of the Hells Angels have admitted their role in the brutal beating that left Kelowna family man Dain Phillips dead in June 2011. Norman Cocks and Robert Thomas, both with the...
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Alkhalil crime group targeted in Ontario drug investigation
Ottawa police targeted former Surrey resident Hisham (Terry) Alkhalil in a drug investigation to head off a gang war in the country’s capital like the one that has plagued Metro Vancouver in recent...
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Charge laid in Red Scorpion Matt Campbell’s murder
A 24-year old man has been charged with the second degree murder of Red Scorpion leader Matt Campbell in Abbotsford last month.Jimi Sandhu will appear in Abbotsford Provincial Court Monday on the...
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Manslaughter trial for HA associates opens in Vancouver
Two full-patch Hells Angels struck unarmed Kelowna dad Dain Phillips in the head with a baseball bat and hammer as his two sons watched in horror, B.C. Supreme Court heard Monday. Crown Joe Bellows...
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Accused killer confronted Phillips’ son over Facebook comment just before...
The day before Dain Phillips was fatally beaten by two Kelowna Hells Angels, his son Kody was confronted outside his home by accused killer Daniel McRae, B.C. Supreme Court heard Tuesday. Kody...
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HAs Cocks and Thomas get 15 years in Kelowna manslaughter case
Two full-patch Hells Angels were sentenced to 15 years Wednesday for the brutal hammer and baseball bat attack that left unarmed Kelowna dad Dain Phillips dead. Associate Chief Justice Austin Cullen...
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18 of B.C.’s full patch Angels convicted or facing charges: CFSEU
The conviction of two full-patch Hells Angels for killing a Kelowna dad means almost one in five members of the B.C. biker gang has now been charged or convicted of a crime in recent years. According...
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IHIT investigates death of young man found on Burnaby path
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has identified the young man murdered in Burnaby Thursday, but is not releasing his name until his family has been notified. Sgt. Adam MacIntosh said the...
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Video: Today in history – Feb 11 – Nelson Mandela freed, Thomas Edison born
Watch highlights of this day in history: South Africa frees Nelson Mandela; Allied leaders in the last months of World War II sign the Yalta accords; Ayatollah Khomeini’s followers seize power in...
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Witness DY tells Surrey Six trial he gave FOB to accused killer
A young drug dealer who lived in the Balmoral Tower in 2007 testified at the Surrey Six trial Tuesday about handing over his electronic key fob to accused killer Matt Johnston on the day of the...
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Defence suggests DY got information about Johnston from police
A key witness at the Surrey Six trial was told by police that the Red Scorpion gang would kill him if he didn’t cooperate in the murder case, B.C. Supreme Court heard Wednesday. The witness, who can...
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VSB requests funding to pay for 2002 teacher contract terms
The Vancouver school board has sent the provincial government a letter requesting that the government restore education funding to a level that would enable school districts to restore service levels...
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Video of grieving mom played at Surrey Six trial
Eileen Mohan says she was shivering Thursday as she watched a video at the Surrey Six trial of her describing her pain just weeks after her son got caught in the Oct. 17, 2007 slaughter. The video,...
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A guide to Surrey Six witness bans so far
The latest publication ban on a witness name at the Surrey Six case pushes the historic gangland trial past other major B.C. murder cases for the number of nameless civilian witnesses testifying. On...
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IHIT takes over investigation into human remains found in Abbotsford
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has taken over the probe into human remains that were found near the Fraser River in Abbotsford Sunday. IHIT Sgt. Adam MacIntosh said in a release that an...
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Son of original East End Hells Angel pleads guilty in cabbie attack
A Vancouver cabbie brutally assaulted last November says he is relieved his attacker will spend more than a year in jail. Ranjit Shergill said he is still in pain from the broken bones in his face...
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