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VANCOUVER - After credit for time served, Chang Kyun Kim will spend 13 years in prison. Kim, 47, was found guilty in February of four counts of aggravated assault on apparently homeless men over nine days in September of 2006. (Metro)
VANCOUVER - Randall Dennis Girard, 49, a man who allegedly showed up naked at a farm, stole a truck and led police on a dramatic chase has been charged with three counts of attempted murder. (Province) PREVIOUS: Naked man leads police on chase Naked man steals truck Police pursuit
Beating over land dispute in India VANCOUVER - Jagdarshan Samra, 62, was targeted at the Ross Street Sikh Temple on Sunday. Samra, an actor and producer in India's film industry, was attending a tournament of soccer and the South Asian sport kabaddi. (Vancouver Province)
VANCOUVER - Two rewards have been posted for the safe return of Mia, the female spider monkey presumed stolen from the Greater Vancouver Zoo. (Province) PREVIOUS: Jocko dead, mate missing RCMP seek motive
VANCOUVER - A major counterfeit case has been derailed after most of the evidence against the accused was thrown out of court due to a judge's finding that police violated his Charter rights. Larry Crocker, 49, walked free Friday after pleading guilty before BC Supreme Court Justice Peter Leask to lesser charges relating to offences he committed while on bail. (Vancouver Province)
Thieves caused house explosion VANCOUVER - An explosion at a house on Saturday was caused by copper thieves who forgot to turn off the gas before they swiped the pipes, a preliminary investigation shows. BC Safety Authority investigators say a section of copper gas pipe appears to be missing from the house. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Surrey blast Blast levels Surrey home
VANCOUVER - Bank robbery has reached epidemic proportions in the city, with 88 robberies recorded to date this year - a 125% increase over the same period last year. Last year, Vancouver had a total of 189 bank robberies. (Vancouver Sun)
VANCOUVER - Frank Siniscalchi, the man convicted in a string of violent robberies near SkyTrain stations in East Vancouver, has been sentenced in Vancouver Provincial Court to eight years in prison, less time served. (Vancouver Province) PREVIOUS: Vile robber deserves no sympathy Man apologizes for SkyTrian station attacks
VANCOUVER - As his passengers jumped or fell from the fiery wreck of his hot-air balloon, Steve Pennock says he lay stunned on the ground. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Balloon tragedy shatters family Hot-air balloon company defends actions of pilot Survivor: jumping 'do or die' decision Hot air balloon catches fire |
VANCOUVER - The BC Supreme Court has reversed a not-guilty verdict for a man accused of putting a cat in a microwave. (CP) JUDGMENT: 2008 BCSC 676 PREVIOUS: BC man guilty of cruelty Animal abuse case details
VANCOUVER - Sean Bajwa's family is suing the City of Surrey, the RCMP, the BC SPCA, the federal and provincial governments and the landlords, owner and dog sitter of a pair of pit bulls that ripped into the 11-year-old boy at the Cedar Hills elementary school playground in Whalley on May 4. (Surrey Now)
VANCOUVER - Marilyn Bateman was surfing Craigslist for used furniture when she saw something that made the hair on her arms stand up. Listed under the general section, with six exclamation points in the headline, was an ad for a seven-day-old baby girl. The going price was $10,000. (Province) PREVIOUS: Baby for sale Week-old baby for sale on Craigslist
Woman dies attempting to escape VANCOUVER - A Richmond woman who fell several stories off a high-rise condo while eluding police has died in hospital from her injuries. Samantha Sczerkowsky, 22, fell from between the fifth and fourth floor of a Richmond apartment on Thursday. (Vancouver Province)
VANCOUVER - A teenager who claimed he had been set on fire by thugs near a Burnaby high school in January has been charged with starting a multimillion-dollar Vancouver warehouse fire and lying to police about his injuries. (Vancouver Sun)
VANCOUVER - Bravado and some technical ability helped thieves make off with a tractor-trailer loaded with liquor early Sunday morning, but it might have been more profitable had they taken the time to read the bills of lading on nearby trailers. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Hot wine Cops out to cork thieves' grape expectations
Student accused of making threats VANCOUVER - A University of BC student has been charged in connection with threats that led to a lockdown on campus four weeks ago. Hwi Lee, 19, is charged with two counts each of uttering threats and mischief. Lee's alleged target was a female member of the campus security staff. (Vancouver Province) MORE: Suspect math whiz kid Charge in UBC scare
Attackers douse teen with gasoline BURNABY - An 18-year-old man is being treated for serious burns to his body after he was doused with gasoline and lit on fire by four males trying to entice him into a fight. (Vancouver Province) MORE: Teen badly burned after gang sets him alight
VANCOUVER - The violent encounter last August between a homeless panhandler and an elderly parishioner at the entrance to Holy Rosary Cathedral has led a Vancouver Provincial Court judge to question society's willingness to accept homelessness and the chaos it has brought to the city's streets. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: 'Church mugger' 'Professional panhandler' arrested Cops issue panhandler warning Police arrest suspect 'It's a particularly cowardly act' Cathedral under siege by panhandlers |
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Two arrested in Spain after hoax VANCOUVER - A series of e-mails from individuals claiming to be holding a missing Canadian backpacker for ransom have turned out to be a hoax, ending with the arrests of two Syrian nationals in Spain for extortion, but no new clues in the disappearance of Nicole Vienneau. (CanWest) PREVIOUS: Find Nicole Vienneau Reward offered |
VANCOUVER - A man suspected of causing at least $500,000 in damage by keying vehicles was upset with ICBC, the insurance corporation says. Investigators now suspect Soo Yo Kim has keyed about 1,000 cars since early March in Vancouver, Coquitlam and Burnaby. (Vancouver Province) PREVIOUS: Suspect arrested Another 200 cars keyed No arrest yet |
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At risk teens + hard core addicts equal disaster VANCOUVER - The province's little-noticed $10-million-plus plan to house up to 100 hard-core drug addicts cheek-by-jowl with at-risk youth and BCIT at Willingdon and Canada Way looks like a recipe for disaster. How can we expect anyone to kick a drug habit next to a campus, playground and facility peopled with two-dozen or so teens with drug habits, prostitution issues, mental health problems and their own social nightmares? This is the work of the BC Solicitor's-General department. (Vancouver Sun) RELATED: Coastal clinic faces probe for providing hallucinogenic drug |
How BC became a world crime superpower VANCOUVER - By almost any measure it was a thriving enterprise, with subsidiaries in eight countries and a flourishing distribution business. Even more impressive, it was run out of Vancouver, a city that's seen many head offices disappear over the years. And with its strong sales, the venture would easily have been considered one of British Columbia's largest private companies. That is, if the operation at the heart of it all wasn't a criminal syndicate trading in marijuana, cocaine, heroin, guns and real estate. (Macleans) RELATED: Cold, wet spring threatens BC pot crop |
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VANCOUVER - Nineteen people are facing charges including assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest following a demonstration at UBC. (CBC) MORE: UBC students face charges |
VANCOUVER - Indian police have arrested four men, including one from Surrey, and charged them with conspiracy to murder the father of a young bride in Ludhiana, Punjab. (Vancouver Province) |
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Family charged with kidnapping VANCOUVER - A bizarre all-in-the-family crime team is accused of kidnapping and extortion in connection with the alleged beating of a 37-year-old woman. Richmond RCMP allege that a 21-year-old man, his 53-year-old mother and his 19-year-old girlfriend held the victim in a vehicle for four hours on Jan. 7 and beat her to the point she needed hospital care. (Vancouver Province) |
ABBOTSFORD - Jujhar Singh Khunkhun, 20, was supported in the prisoner's box in Surrey Provincial Court by his friend Harpreet Singh Chahal, his accomplice in the kidnapping. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Mysterious death gets even more mysterious Suicidal fiancé before courts 'A miracle I'm alive' Family wants answers as wedding becomes funeral |
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VANCOUVER - BC's building boom has brought rampant drug abuse to the construction industry, with more widespread use and more addictive substances (Vancouver Sun) |
Keep violent teen in jail says victim VANCOUVER - The name of the youth who beat Jarrett Fairhurst unconscious cannot be reported because he was 17 at the time of the incident. (Vancouver Province) |
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Ottawa rejects plea deal with US VANCOUVER - A tentative deal between Marc Emery, Vancouver's Prince of Pot, and the US government over money-laundering and drug charges has been nixed by Ottawa. (Vancouver Sun) Emery agrees to 5 years |
Prince of Potheads: time for justice |
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VANCOUVER - Vancouver Police say the terms "chronic" and "super-chronic" offender aren't extreme enough to describe the city's worst repeat criminals. The VPD have given five of them a new label: "ludicrous offender.” Vincent Mark Barton, 39, who has 128 criminal convictions dating back to 1988; Brian Nicholas Saunders, 50, with 130 criminal convictions dating back to 1975; and William Edward Marshall, 46,with 148 criminal convictions dating back to 1979. (NEWS1130) |
1 junkie in jail leaves 4,000 citizens crime-free Chronic addiction-based offenders must first be separated from society Longer terms for chronic thieves Mandatory sentences blamed for boom in cost of prisons
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VANCOUVER - The grieving family of Manjeet Kaur Nandha turned reporters away at their Surrey home Monday as questions continued to swirl about why the 42-year-old mother killed herself days after her Vancouver restaurant was destroyed by arson. (Vancouver Sun) |
Blast suspect released on bail Owner of restaurant commits suicide 'Ineptitude' lead to arson blast suspect |
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VANCOUVER - More than 100 marijuana grow operations in Langley Township have been nipped in the bud in three months by examining home electricity bills. Langley is one of 15 BC municipalities registered with BC Hydro to receive bills for homes using more than normal amounts of juice. (Vancouver Province) |
Street race suspected in fatal crash VANCOUVER - Police have finally reopened a stretch of South Granville after a fatal accident overnight at Balfour. Jimmy Mok, a passenger in a white Nissan that lost control and crashed into a pole was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries. (Vancouver Province) |
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Police review actions of TV crew VANCOUVER - The ransacking of the premier's Vancouver office by anti-Olympic activists has triggered a police review of Premier Gordon Campbell's security and the role a television station may have played in fuelling the fracas. (Vancouver Sun) |
Protesters storm BC cabinet offices Protesters trash premier's office Cunningham arrested for 'uttering threats' |
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VANCOUVER - About two dozen members of Vancouver's Anti-Poverty Committee clashed with police outside Heritage Hall on Main Street, during a bid to disrupt the annual general meeting of the civic Non-Partisan Association, Mayor Sam Sullivan's political party. (CBC) |
Voices for the poor or just malcontents? Rally in Vancouver turns violent |
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VANCOUVER - Attorney-General Wally Oppal yesterday ordered a review of the aggravated-assault sentences given two young offenders who attacked 18-year-old Michael Levy and left him a quadriplegic. (Vancouver Province) |
'We want to know why this happened' Hatchet attack disables Surrey teen Cities shocked at 'gratuitous' acts Trio found guilty in gruesome axe attack |
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Woman in abduction case sentenced to 16 months in jail VANCOUVER - A woman who abducted her two children and took them to France in defiance of a court order has been sentenced to 16 months in jail. Since Gettliff-Grant has been in custody since her arrest, she is credited with having already served 10 months of her sentence, and will be held for another six months. (Sun) |
Thief steals senior's independence VANCOUVER - A man who allegedly forced his way into an 89-year-old woman's West End apartment after claiming he wanted to return her stolen wallet is behind bars, but the victim may not recover from the home invasion. (Vancouver Sun) MORE: Man charged in attack on probation |
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Arrest made after 4th homeless man stabbed VANCOUVER - Police have detained a suspect after a homeless man's neck was slashed in an unprovoked assault in downtown Vancouver - the fourth such attack in the city since Sept. 2. (CBC) MORE: Slasher preys on Vancouver homeless 3 homeless men stabbed Vancouver cops search for slasher who targets homeless |
VANCOUVER - A BC Lions player Tasered by police is under investigation for assault, police say. Receiver T. J. Acree was stopped by police Aug. 26 after a brawl outside a karaoke bar in downtown Vancouver. Eight people were involved in the fight or in close proximity to it, said Vancouver police. (Province) MORE: Acree's jolt gets attention |
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More dogs eating drugs, vets say VANCOUVER - Doped-up dogs are turning up at their vets' office in increasing numbers. The owner of the Animal Emergency Clinic of the Fraser Valley said the number of dogs consuming their owners' illicit drugs then ending up ill in her waiting room has "easily doubled" in the past 10 years. Dr. Nadine Koreman now treats at least one cranked-up canine case every week. (Province) |
US wants to deport monster to BC SEATTLE - U.S. authorities hope to deport a Vancouver man who spent six years in jail for imprisoning and torturing his wife -- a crime described as one of the most shocking spousal abuses in American history. According to the district attorney who prosecuted Victor David, "the United States has its own homegrown wife-beaters. We don't need anybody else's." (The Province) |
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VANCOUVER - Leslie Laforest has discovered how quickly a teen's house party can get overwhelmed with uninvited guests in an era of cellphones and text messaging. (Sun) |
Tree thieves can make big bucks VANCOUVER - Thieves are illegally chopping down highly prized maple trees - some up to 400 years old - in the Upper Fraser Valley forests. (Sun) MORE: Tree DNA helps catch thieves |
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NORTH VANCOUVER - Eleven men have been charged in a high-profile eagle-parts trafficking case triggered more than a year ago when 48 mutilated eagle carcasses were discovered in North Vancouver and Squamish. (The Province) |
11 BC men charged over bald eagle poaching Eagle poaching case may face charter test |
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Trio of teenagers are bank robbery suspects VANCOUVER - Police in Surrey have arrested three young teenagers in connection with a string of bank robberies across the Lower Mainland. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: Young teens arrested for bank hold-ups |
Teens beat bus driver over 50 cents VANCOUVER - Two teenagers apparently angry that one was being tossed off a bus for being 50 cents short of a fare allegedly beat a bus driver unconscious yesterday morning -- causing him to ram the bus into a parked car. (Province) |
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Eyewitness testimony too often unreliable VANCOUVER - The kidnapping trial of Graham McMynn has again exposed the difficulty eyewitness testimony poses in sensational criminal cases. (Vancouver Sun) 'I looked up and noticed...a gun' Kidnap had 'nothing to do with past' Wrong man arrested for kidnapping, say dad |
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