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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]
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]
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)
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.
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.
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Red Deer, Alberta, Canada One of the four dominant outlaw motorcycle clubs in Alberta prior to 1997. [142] Red Devils Motorcycle Club: c. 2001: Karlstad, Värmland, Sweden The largest and most prominent support club for the Hells Angels MC. Active in nearly 20 countries. [143] [144] [145] Road Knights: 1979 Timaru, New Zealand
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