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Le says he pleaded guilty to “accept responsibility” for Surrey Six
Red Scorpion founder Michael Le testified at the Surrey Six trial that he pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the gangland case to take responsibility for his actions.Le was grilled by defence lawyer Simon...
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Defence lawyer suggests Persons X and Y went to do Surrey Six murders
A defence lawyer at the Surrey Six trial suggested Wednesday that the murders were plotted and carried out by three Red Scorpion gangsters who have already admitted to involvement in the slayings.Simon...
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Ontario murder victim faced trafficking charges with Vancouver man
A man gunned down in Vaughan, Ontario Sunday has been identified by York Regional Police as Ritesh Thakur, 41. Thakur was charged 11 months ago along with Vancouver’s Philipos Kollaros and two others...
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Mike Le says he regrets murders linked to Red Scorpion gang
A key Crown witness at the Surrey Six trial testified Tuesday that he hates the person he was when he founded the Red Scorpions and regrets the deadly violence linked to the gang. Michael Le told...
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How I used Mapshaper to build a better postal code area map for B.C.
Warning: This is a seriously nerdy blog post. If you just want the B.C. FSA boundary files and not my long-winded explanation of how I made them, you can get the SHP file here and the KML here. But if...
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Le grilled about conversation he had with Johnston after Surrey Six
A defence lawyer at the Surrey Six trial grilled a key Crown witness about a dramatic comment he attributed to accused killer Matt Johnston about why so many people were killed. Michel Le testified...
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At-risk students aim for Africa trip
A group of vulnerable students in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside are fundraising to go to Africa to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, visit Olduvai Gorge and watch the wildebeest migration in the Serengeti...
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Mike Le admits he threatened Matt Johnston in text messages
Red Scorpion founder Michael Le admitted Thursday that he threatened to shoot accused Surrey Six killer Matt Johnston in text messages some time after the Oct. 19, 2007 murders. Le told Johnston’s...
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290 unsolved murders on the Lower Mainland over 12 years
Finally, after months of research and interviews, we’re launching our database on unsolved murders on the Lower Mainland from 2002 to 2013. I have been working on this project with Sun reporter Mike...
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Part Two in our series about Unsolved Homicides
Twenty years ago, a judge sentencing Vancouver teenager Phouvong Phommaviset for a drive-by shooting at a city school called gang violence “a very dangerous and very unhappy development.’’ Eight years...
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Juliet Andalis desperate for answers in her daughter’s 2005 murder
For nine long years, Juliet Andalis has been waiting for justice for her murdered daughter Mayvette. She has called Vancouver police regularly to pass along tips that she’s uncovered in her pursuit of...
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Part 3 of our unsolved murder series
Unsolved murder series: Passage of time sometimes helps a cold case BY MIKE HAGER AND KIM BOLAN Late one Sunday night in the fall of 1989, an intruder knocked on the sliding glass door of Diane...
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IHIT searching for suspect in domestic murder in Cloverdale
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is looking for a man named Barrie McQuarrie in connection with the murder late last night in Surrey. IHIT’s Sgt. Adam MacIntosh said in a release that...
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Sex trade workers still getting killed a decade after Pickton’s arrest
Unsolved murders: Deadly danger on the stroll By Mike Hager and Kim Bolan Sharon Anne Dietrich, Michelle Caroline Choiniere and Lisa Arlene Francis. They were sex trade workers murdered, then dumped...
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Defence suggests Le made deal not to implicate Bacon in Surrey Six
Red Scorpion founder Michael Le testified Tuesday that he knew nothing about a 2013 conversation in which his lawyer allegedly offered assurances to Jamie Bacon’s lawyer that Le would not implicate...
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Part 5 of our unsolved homicide series: Coping with Complexity
In a meeting room somewhere in the Lower Mainland, about a dozen members of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team are gathered around a boardroom table. The fast food wrappers and drink bottles...
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Politicians and experts call for change to B.C. charge approval standard
B.C. should abandon its higher standard for laying charges and fall in line with other provinces, they say BY KIM BOLAN AND MIKE HAGER B.C.’s higher standard for laying criminal charges should be...
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Man fatally stabbed during deadly fight in Surrey Wednesday night
Just before 10 p.m. Wednesday, Surrey RCMP responded to a report of a disturbance in the 9300-block of 132 Street. They found a 39-year-old man with serious stab wounds. He was transported to hospital...
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Six more cases added to our database of unsolved murders
The Vancouver Sun is adding six more names to our database of unsolved homicides across the Lower Mainland from 2003 to 2012. After hearing from family members of murder victims who were...
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Kamloops man gets 11.5 years in California jail
A B.C. man who operated an international cocaine smuggling ring from Mexico has been sentenced to more than 11 years in a California jail. John Darrel Krokos, of Kamloops, was handed the prison term...
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