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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.
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] In response, Roueche placed bounties on the lives of the Bacon brothers with the bounty for killing Jamie Bacon being $300,000. [64]
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]
Independent Soldiers Gang – Decades old organized crime gang active across Canada (a part of the Wolfpack Gang Alliance) [125] [126] Kang Crime Group – Also known as "BIBO gang" or "Blood In, Blood Out gang" (formerly a member of the Wolfpack Alliance) [127] Malli-Buttar Crime Groups Coalition [128] [129] Punjabi mafia [130] [131]
During the ensuring gang war for control of the drug trade in the Lower Mainland, the Independent Soldiers served as proxies for the Hells Angels. [ 41 ] On 6 August 2008, a shooting took place on Upland street in Prince George with a man, known as W.B. due to a court order, being seriously injured. [ 42 ]
Between 2002 and 2009, there was a bloody gang war between two rival East Asian gangs the FK and FOB gangs which resulted in 25 gang related murders. East Asians were not the only group involved in gang violence. There were also White/Italian, (East) Indian, and, in some cases, Black gang members of these gangs.
He also showed a reporter a gang Whatsapp thread with texts from gang members threatening turf wars with the Venezuelans. Octavia Mitchell, 52, lost her son to gun violence in 2010 and her nephew ...
Gangs in Vancouver (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Organized crime in Vancouver" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... 2009 Vancouver gang war