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VANCOUVER - Police have dismantled an
alleged violent Vancouver criminal group called the Gill Group.
7 people were arrested and 4 guns
seized as part of Project Temper against gang violence in the Lower
Mainland.
The alleged gang members were
identified as Taqdir Gill, 21 years old; Hitkaran Johal, 19; Simrat
Lally, 20; Walta Abay, 23; Pawandeep Chopra, 20; and two 17-year-olds.
(Straight)
VANCOUVER - The
CFSEU-BC has moved away from looking at the number of gangs there
are in BC and are now focused on the fact that there are between 1,200
and 1,400 identified individuals associated to gangs and organized
crime in this province.
These individuals have been identified through the Provincial Tactical
Enforcement Priority program.
(Voice Online)
MONTREAL - 5 men with ties to a Montreal street gang called Unit 44 were charged with the murder of Raynald Desjardins' business partner and close friend. The 5 men pleaded guilty to being part of a conspiracy to kill Gaetan Gosselin, on Jan 22, 2013. Olivier Gay, 34, also pleaded to being part of a conspiracy to murder Vincenzo Scuderi, 49, who was killed 9 days after Gosselin. (Montreal Gazette)
OTTAWA - Police allege one-time leader of the Vanier Bloods and high-profile drug dealer Adnan 'Ace' Fazeli, 32, is the ringleader of what detectives have now called 'The Fazeli Group.' (Ottawa Citizen)
MONTREAL - Shane Kenneth (Wheels) Maloney, an alleged leader in the
West End Gang, was sentenced to an overall 10-year prison term for
trying to buy 25 kilos of cocaine from an undercover agent and for
having stored enough firearms and explosives to start a small war.
(Montreal Gazette)
YELLOWKNIFE - A 24-year-old BC man was sentenced to 4 and a half years in jail after pleading guilty to possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. (CBC) PREVIOUS: 856 gang 856 gang in Yellowknife CFSEU arrests 856 gang members Gangs in BC
TORONTO - Sukh Deo, 34, was inside a white Range Rover when 2 men started firing at him just before 3pm in an alley near Yonge St and Eglinton Ave. Both were wearing construction vests - one green and one orange. (Vancouver Sun) MORE: Victim identified Involved in Wolf Pack Victim was facing drug charges
OTTAWA - The SC agreed with BC prosecutors that the evidence against United Nations gangster Michael Newman, killed Marc Rozen during a botched 2004 robbery, supported the more serious count of first-degree murder. (Vancouver Sun) JUDGMENT: 2016 SCC 7
VANCOUVER - United Nations gang associate Vincent Eric Gia-Hwa Cheung,
40, allegedly used his connections to organized crime to help him with
a campaign of terror against people linked to the Justice Institute of
BC (JIBC).
He was arrested along with his
alleged accomplice Thurman Ronley Taffe, 54.
(Vancouver Sun)
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Charges in
arsons, shootings
Accused is
lottery winner
VANCOUVER - Half the roughly three dozen shootings in the
Surrey
and
Delta
area since March have been linked to a drug feud between two groups
involved in 'disorganized crime,' said RCMP.
(CP)
OTTAWA - In Atlantic Canada, the Bacchus
outlaw motorcycle club runs the drug trade, according to police biker
crime specialists. In oil-rich Alberta, bullets fly when the Red
Scorpions clash with the United Nations crew. In the Prairies, the
White Boy Posse's migration east from Edmonton has spilled blood in
Saskatchewan.
(CBC)
CALGARY -
He has walked alone through some of
the most unsafe neighbourhoods in Calgary in hopes he'd be stopped by
gang bangers wanting to know what he was doing on their turf.
(Globe & Mail)
MANILA - James Riach, Barry Espadilla, Ali Shirazi and Tristan Olazo remain in custody in the Philippines on charges. (Vancouver Sun) PREVIOUS: 4 Canadians arrested Raid finds 2 Canadians
KARACHI - A remote-controlled bomb hidden in a motorbike has torn through a crowd of young football players in a soccer-obsessed slum in the Pakistani city of Karachi, killing an estimated 10 children and teenagers. (Guardian UK) MORE: Bomb kills 11 Children killed
NUEVO VALLARTA - Reputed drug trafficker Nicholas Michael Lucier was detained in the Pacific coast city of Nuevo Vallarta. (EFE)
SICAMOUS
- Colin Martin, who the US accuses of being the kingpin in a
cross-border drug smuggling operation that left 2 people dead, has
been ordered extradited to the US.
(CBC)
MORE:
Martin remains in custody
Drug bust
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VANCOUVER - 2 men with gang links who were
beaten while awaiting trials in Metro Vancouver jails have been
awarded by the BC government to settle their lawsuits. Independent
Soldier associate Jesse Margison was given a $3M settlement after
suffering severe brain damage when another inmate at the North Fraser
Pretrial Centre stomped on his head in August 2012.
Allen Ogonoski, a former gang member
of Surrey Thugs Inc, was awarded $496,600 for the brain injury he
suffered after being attacked in Surrey Pretrial by a rival gangster
on Aug 15, 2011.
(Vancouver Province)
SEATTLE - Kevin Donald Kerfoot, 53, was sentenced in Seattle to 13 years in jail after entering a guilty plea in April following an unsuccessful 10-year fight to remain in Canada. (Vancouver Sun) MORE: 13 years
EDMONTON - A Provincial Threat Assessment
identified 138 criminal networks operating in Alberta.
In their latest annual report, ALERT
has identified 245 criminal networks active in the province.
(Sun Media)MORE:
Marijuana makes up more than half of ALERT drug seizures
JIANGSU PROVINCE - Knife-wielding gangs are clashing outside hospitals and spilling each other's blood in China over a precious resource - blood donations. (Epoch Times)
DAWSON CREEK - The streets of Dawson Creek have become a battleground in a growing drug turf war, and now police are asking the public for assistance to try and stop it before innocent bystanders are killed. Police think there's as a many as 6 different gangs vying for the drug trade in Dawson Creek and the surrounding areas. (CBC) MORE: Shooting, kidnapping linked to drug war
VANCOUVER - The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU-BC) has released its annual report aimed at discouraging involvement in gangs, especially for young women who follow the lustre but find something entirely different. (CP) REPORT: Youth, girls and gangs 2015
HALIFAX - Police in Ontario say the gang
known as North Preston's Finest is actively recruiting girls and women
from the Maritimes, forcing them into a life of prostitution in cities
across Canada.
(CBC)
LOS ANGELES - Over 800 hundred law enforcement officers and agents served dozens of arrest and search warrants in Operation Thumbs Down, an 18-month investigation that targeted members and associates of the Rollin’ 30s Harlem Crips. (FBI) MORE: Gang raid Images of children with guns
VANCOUVER - For the first time, the provincial anti-gang police unit has issued an accessible report on criminal gangs for the public – a document that says BC organizations maintain headquarters in this province while doing business around the world. (Globe & Mail)
CALGARY - 8 people are facing more than 100 charges in connection to alleged criminal activity in the Calgary area. The charges follow a nearly year long investigation into drugs and weapons in the Calgary region as well as BC’s lower mainland. (CTV)
LOS ANGELES - P Jeffrey Brantingham, an anthropologist at UCLA who uses statistics to study crime, has applied the Lotka-Volterra equations to gangs. (Smithsonian)
Tattoos are useful indicators to identify individuals who are members of a gang or a criminal organization. It is important to note that an image may have several different, occasionally innocuous, meanings, depending on the interpretation of the individual or gangs using it. (CBSA handbook posted by Public Intelligence) MORE: Unemployed Tattoo leads to conviction
VANCOUVER - Gangsters from BC are increasingly doing business with drug cartels in Mexico - a recklessly naive trend that has resulted in 5 deaths in the past 4 years, police say. (CBC)
BILLINGS - A Canadian citizen will spend more than 7 years in federal prison for smuggling guns from Montana into Lethbridge, Alberta. (Billings Gazette)
Are you worried your child might be involved with a gang? Police say there are several warning signs that you should watch out for. (CTV) MORE: Career choice
VANCOUVER - Nazfar Mirhadi and Veronica Moncur were found not guilty in BC Supreme Court, but 5 others were found guilty. The 7 were arrested in October 2011 after a 29-year-old man was kidnapped from a restaurant in downtown Vancouver. (CTV) MORE: Gang related kidnapping
RCMP in the Northwest Territories say they have arrested 22 people following a series of drug busts in four communities. (CBC) |
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TORONTO - Folorunso Owusu was convicted of 2 counts of second-degree murder. Owusu fired a gun at the Danzig party organizer Nahom Tsegazab during a confrontation, hitting him and a young woman. Tsegazab and an unidentified man shot back into the crowd of 200 people killing Joshua Yasay, 23, and Shyanne Charles, 14, and injuring 21 others. (Toronto Star) New generation mentored by old |
Reckless discharge of a firearm 'Very intelligent, always laughing' Police link BQ deaths with gang war Threat of retaliatory violence
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VANCOUVER - They are not necessarily poor. They do not especially cleave to any code based on ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Instead, gang experts in BC say, the youth involved in shootings and the drug trade are different in this province. (Globe & Mail) Mayor's task force on gang violence prevention .pdf |
Concrete roadblocks set up in front of homes Bad press for BC BC or Colombia? Faster, higher, stronger - and deadlier Crime bill could help ID gangsters Drug hotel is about to empty out Clouding the issue of gang crime |
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TORONTO - Blood was spilled over the alleged Rob Ford crack cocaine video. Mohamed Siad, 27, was stabbed while in custody when other gang members wrongly blamed him for the heat coming down on them in Project Traveller because of the alleged crack video. (QMI) Caught up in police raids |
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MANILA - Independent Soldier James Riach along with his Canadian co-accused Ali Shirazi have been sentenced to life in prison. Riach and Shirazi had possessed more than $2.5M worth of ecstasy and shabu. Also arrested and charged was Riach's long-time BC associate Barry Espadilla. But Espadilla was released 18 months later after an appeals court judge accepted his lawyer's argument that police lied to get search warrants in the case. He has since returned to Canada. (Vancouver Sun) |
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Suspect VANCOUVER - Police have closed in on a former Surrey man believed responsible for the high-profile slaying of Indo-Canadian crime boss Sandip Duhre in January, 2012. Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil, who is currently being held in Greece pending extradition to Toronto, is believed to have organized the grisly Duhre murder in the Sheraton Wall Centre. Duhre took several bullets to the head as he sat eating at a high-end restaurant on the evening of January 17. |
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VANCOUVER - The Cory Vallee murder trial has offered a fascinating glimpse into the violent world of the notorious United Nations gang and its targets. UN members-turned-Crown witnesses have testified that the gang plotted against rivals, killed young street-level dealers, and even arranged a hit on one of its own members, who was hiding out in Mexico. One of those witnesses, a man who can only be identified as C due to a publication ban, also described discussions he had with the gang's leader in 2011 about killing me. (Kim Bolan) |
New court documents .pdf BC gang leader arrested in Texas Wanted gangster running BC ski business Former biker boss pleads guilty Father of victim dismayed at pleas
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Bacons & friends VANCOUVER - Jarrod Bacon's sentence has been revised to 14 years, instead of the 12 he received earlier this year for conspiring to import cocaine into Canada from Mexico. (CP) |
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VANCOUVER - Police across the Lower Mainland are pulling out all the stops to combat a new wave of deadly gang violence that involves both volatile younger players and gangsters with criminal links that date back a decade. (PostMedia) |
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VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has ruled that a United Nations gang associate should be allowed out of immigration detention pending his deportation to Iraq. (PostMedia) Gang charges .pdf |
UN and the Canada-Mexico connection Trail leads from drug raid to murders Murder of Eugene & Michele Uyeyama |
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VANCOUVER - 2 members of a Vernon, BC-based drug gang known as the Greeks have been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years after being convicted of murder. Dale Sipes was given two life sentences, one for the torture and murder of David Marniuk in 2004 and the other for the execution-style murder of Ron Thom in 2005. Leslie Podolski was sentenced to life for being an active participant in Marniuk's death. Both of the convicted men were described as gang enforcers. (CBC) |
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Criminal organization sentences KELOWNA - Thomas Fraser and his associate Jason Herrick, both of Kelowna, were the first people in BC convicted of committing their crimes for the benefit of a criminal organization. |
Gang task force tackles escalating violence RCMP Briefing Note .pdf |
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VANCOUVER - 50-year-old Thomas Gisby was shot twice at close range at a Starbucks in Nuevo Vallarta. Police say Gisby was the head of his own gang called the Gisby Crime Group and was involved in drug trafficking as well as other illegal activities for two decades. (CTV) |
TORONTO - Fed up with Ottawa's response to organized crime, five provinces are taking the law into their own hands. In an unprecedented move, justice ministers from Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta signed an inter-provincial accord to work together to combat bikers, mobsters and gangsters. (Toronto Star) |
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OTTAWA - The number of federal inmates who belong to gangs behind bars has climbed 32% in the last 5 years. (CBC) Notorious twins' guilty plea big win for gang unit |
Drug bunker found 7600 Nixon Rd The RCMP's gangster 'hit list' Big Circle Boys born of Red Guards BC Homicide Statistics - 1999 to 2004
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CALGARY - FOB gang member Trong Nguyen conspired to murder a rival
gangster and tried to coax a police agent into carrying out the
killing. But the Crown
failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt 2 other accused, Henry Le
Nguyen and Byran Balla, were part of the murderous plot.
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WILLIAMS LAKE - At least 3 First Nations gangs with roots in
nearby reserves are at war in and around the small ranching and
lumber town in BC's Central Interior.
Gangs known as the 712, Indian Outlaws and Chilcotin Rebel
Warriors clash over drugs, money and revenge. The violence has
flared on reserves such as Soda Creek and Anaham, leaving native
leaders in despair.
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Retaliation watch HOBBEMA - When 15-year-old Preston Thom heard bullets flying as he stood outside his home in the Hobbema townsite south of Edmonton, he gave his little brother a hard push and told him to run. It was enough to save the 12-year-old, but not Preston. |
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WINNIPEG - Today - a mere 6 years after the Most Organized Brothers (MOB) first blipped on the Winnipeg Police Service radar - cops say the gang has grown into a major criminal threat with more than 100 documented members and associates. (Winnipeg Sun) |
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TORONTO - Some 70 people allegedly affiliated with a violent west-end street gang were arrested in raids overnight Thursday. More than 800 police officers executed some 50 warrants targeting the Five Point Generalz. The raids were the result of a nine-month investigation into the gang dubbed Project Patton. (CBC)
Police made catch, now courts begin their release International crime group exposed |
Accused sparred with victim years before |
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Hatred began with death threat
Deaths of Shillingford, Taylor and Eminess
Gang shreds off member's tattoo Judge blasts Crown over hearing delays Gangsters post You Tube evidence for cops 2 charged with human trafficking |
Raids target Latino Americanos 40-shot fusillade hits club district Abduction linked to school shooting Gang fight behind downtown shootout Driftwood's furtive '3 generals' unmasked Police probe officer over raid Police raid nothing new for some |
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Gunned down LAVAL - Harry Mytil, allegedly tied to the Bo-Gars, was gunned down inside the garage of the Henri Julien St home where he was residing. |
Club Temptation case suspended Raids on window-tinting suppliers 300 officers conduct drug raids Drug raid targeted Dominican gang Construction, arson, drugs and weapons
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SAN DIEGO - 19 people have been charged as part of a 3-year
investigation into the Mexican Mafia prison gang.
'According to the investigation, the defendants operated in
two groups, led by either federal prisoner Jose Alberto 'Bat'
Marquez or California death row inmate Ronaldo Ayala.
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Iron grip on California's jails DoJ: racketeering indictment targets Mexican Mafia
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Mexican mafia members arrested Man charged with smuggling Ecstasy Drew Street Gang arrested for racketeering |
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LONDON - A deadly wave of gang warfare is currently gripping the streets of London with the police struggling to contain the rising tide of bloodshed. The shocking level of violence has erupted as gang members seek revenge in tit for tat attacks across the capital. Many are triggered on social media, as rival factions post rap videos online taunting one another, or mocking enemies over recent deaths or brutal assaults. Since the start of this year, the Metropolitan Police have investigated more than 50 murders, many linked to warring gangs. (Daily Mail) |
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