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The Red Scorpions have been involved in an increasing number of well-publicized incidents of gang violence in the Vancouver area, in part due to their bitter rivalry with the United Nations gang. The Red Scorpions-United Nations relationship worsened after the infamous Bacon brothers left the UN to join forces with the Red Scorpions. [6]
In early 2009, a series of gang-related shootings occurred due to what police describe as a gang war in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.Alleged participants include the Independent Soldiers, the Sanghera Crime Family, [1] [2] the Buttar Crime Family, the United Nations Gang, the Red Scorpions, and the Vancouver chapters of the Hells Angels.
During the gang war in Vancouver in 2008 and 2009 fought between the Red Scorpions and the United Nations gang for the control of the cocaine trade, Kim Bolan, the crime correspondent of The Vancouver Sun newspaper, maintained a blog about crimes in the Lower Mainland. [15]
The Hells Angels through their proxy of the Independent Soldiers sought to play off both sides, selling both the UN gang and the Red Scorpions guns and ammunition. [5] Despite the name of 2009 gang war, the conflict actually started a year earlier in January 2008 when the Red Scorpions made a murder attempt against Roueche. [64]
Red Scorpions (Formerly a member of the Wolfpack Gang Alliance) [9] [10] Ugly crew– Peterborough, based street gang involved in money laundering, taxation of other groups in the area involved in the narcotics trade. [11] United Nations gang – Primarily Caucasian, Asian, Indo-Canadian, and Persian (member of the Dhak-Dhure-UN Alliance)
One person is dead and two others wounded after a shooting in the food court of the Vancouver Mall in Vancouver, Washington, and the suspect is at large, police say. ... In Other News ...
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.
A motorcycle gang member killed Thursday night started the shootout that left him dead, according to court records. Investigators believe two members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club — Jordan ...