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Hooites-Meursing started to engage in gun-running and smuggling cocaine for the Red Scorpions while having B.C. Bud marijuana smuggled into the United States. [15] By 2005, the Red Scorpions had become a major gang in the Lower Mainland. [9] The gang primarily sold cocaine, heroin and ecstasy via the so-called "dial-a-dope" lines. [9]
In January 2003, the UN gang shot and killed the Red Scorpion Edward "Skeeter" Russell in revenge. [9] When a tape emerged of an UN gang member, Gupreet "Bobby" Rehal, laughing about the killing of Russell and stating he arranged for the murder, [10] the Red Scorpions decided that he must had been Russell's shooter. [9]
The Brothers Keepers were founded in 2016 [12] by Gavinder Singh Grewal; with most of the gangs membership and leadership formerly made up of former Red Scorpions. Grewal was rumoured to have taken the gang's name from a line uttered by Wesley Snipes’ gangster character in the 1991 movie New Jack City. [13] [14]
At least seven people were injured in a Long Beach, California, shooting late Saturday, according to police. Officers with the Long Beach Police Department responded to the shooting in the area of ...
The homicide victims whose deaths police are attributing to the gang members, all of whom were fatally shot, include Arron Sutton, 18, killed in Florence on Nov. 15; Christopher Woods, 61, killed ...
Three suspects are still at large after opening fire and killing multiple people at a party in Monterey County, police said. King City police responded to a report of shots fired at a residence in ...
The leader of the Independent Soldiers, Parminder Singh "Peter" Adiwal was shot several times and badly wounded in an attack by a member of the Red Scorpions gang in April 2009 that left him a paraplegic. [44] [17] In April 2009, Naicker became the new leader of the Independent Soldiers. [19]
Ten people linked to a Southern California street gang were charged with federal crimes, a year after a member shot and killed two suburban police officers, authorities announced Wednesday.