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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]
In January 2003, the UN gang killed the Red Scorpion Edward "Skeeter" Russell in revenge for Thiphavong's death. [29] An audio tape of an UN gang member, Gupreet "Bobby" Rehal emerged with Rehal laughing about Russell's murder, which led the Red Scorpions to conclude that he was Russell's killer. [29] Hooites-Meursing was ordered to kill Rehal ...
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.
TDA members flashing gang signs and wearing their uniforms of choice — Chicago Bulls T-shirts and caps — could be seen outside the Standard Club migrant shelter downtown, where two local ...
In the early twentieth century, for instance, Red Hook’s docks were controlled by an Irish gang, the White Hand. “At first they robbed everyone blind, but there was little violence,” writes ...
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)