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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]
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 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.
The so-called Lal crew were a small gang based in unit 1505 in the Balmoral Tower condo in Surrey. [1] The Lal crew consisted of the 22-year old Edward "Eddie" Narong, one of the founders of the Red Scorpions who had broken away to found his own gang; the 26-year old Michael Justin Lal and his younger brother, 22-year old Corey Jason Lal; and the 19-year old Ryan Bartolomeo. [1]
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. ... You can get TurboTax for ...
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)
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 gang war increased the dependence of both the Red Scorpions and the United Nations gang on the Hells Angels, cementing their control of the Lower Mainland underworld. The police response to the gang war was greatly hindered by the perception that the police forces in the Lower Mainland were grossly inept, which made people unwilling to come ...