Police investigate shooting at legal grow-op
NIAGARA FALLS - Niagara regional police say officers and paramedics responded on Monday afternoon after a 45-year-old man called 911 to report that he had just been shot. (CBC News)
Notorious B.C. drug smuggler busted again
Less than a year after B.C. skipper John ‘Phil’ Stirling was released from a U.S. prison where he served seven years for cocaine smuggling, the controversial sea captain is back behind bars. (Vancouver Sun)
Chilliwack Mounties take down drug gang
Mounties in the Fraser Valley say they have dismantled a major drug operation after a seven-month investigation. Officers found suspected cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin, loaded handguns and blasting caps after executing search warrants in both Chilliwack and Abbotsford. (The Province)
BC gangsters busted in Winnipeg have long histories with police
Two B.C. man — one convicted in a high-profile 1982 slaying and the other as Independent Soldier gangster — have been charged in a major Winnipeg police investigation into a drug trafficking organization. (The Province)
Surrey RCMP issue warning about victim of two targeted shootings
VANCOUVER - Thomas Gabriel Saul, a 35-year-old New Westminster resident, was targeted in an Aug. 21 shooting in Burnaby, and again this week in a shooting on Tuesday in Surrey's Fraser Heights area. (The Province)
RCMP charge ex-Vice Canada editor with conspiring to smuggle cocaine into Australia
TORONTO - The RCMP have charged a former Vice Canada editor and music journalist with conspiring to import large loads of cocaine into Australia, supporting allegations the National Post revealed in 2017. A sales agent for the media company’s Toronto operations was also charged. (National Post)
Hells Angel arrested, likely biggest ever seizure of meth in Manitoba say RCMP
Police say a series of organized crime raids executed in Winnipeg and the Interlake Wednesday has likely brought in one the largest seizures of meth Manitoba has ever seen. (Global News)
Reality show doc, woman charged with drug rapes
LOS ANGELES - A California physician who appeared in a reality TV dating show and an alleged female accomplice have been charged with drugging and sexually assaulting two women, and authorities said Tuesday there could be many more victims. (Toronto Sun)Surgeon who appeared in reality show charged with multiple sex offences
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Drug company founder convicted of bribing doctors with money, strippers to sell fentanyl
A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions of dollars in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance. (CBC)
Toronto police seize coke, cash, high-end watches in $8 million bust
Four men are in custody and two more on the run after Toronto police dismantled a ‘professional’ level cocaine trafficking operation. (Toronto Sun)
