Inappropriate relationship may hurt witness testimony Dean Recksiedler SURREY (NEWS 1130) – There are serious concerns over the future of the Surrey Six case. It comes after an investigator looking into the killings was put on desk duty for having a relationship with a witness in the case. Our legal analyst is talking about what this could mean. Michael Shapray … Read More
Man beaten by VPD officers in mistaken identity case wants compensation
Chief Jim Chu apologizes in person Shane Bighamam Goddard VANCOUVER (NEWS1130)- An update on a story News1130 first brought you yesterday, about a man arrested by mistake during a domestic violence call in Vancouver The Chief of Police has visited the man’s home and apologized in person. OMNI Television reporter Fiona Law has also spoken with the victim and says … Read More
Vancouver gang leader pleads guilty, U.S. prosecutor to seek 30-year sentence
The alleged leader of the Vancouver area’s notoriously violent UN gang is facing up to 30 years in a U.S. prison after pleading guilty to drug-trafficking charges in a Seattle courtroom on Tuesday. Clayton Roueche, 33, appeared in the U.S. District Court and accepted a plea agreement for conspiring to use small planes and helicopters to import more than 1,000 … Read More
B.C. Massacre Suspect Complains About Jail
By THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER, B.C. – A man charged in a massacre that claimed six lives in Surrey, B.C., says he is getting cold food in prison and has no pillow on his bed. Twenty-three-year-old Jamie Bacon is being held in the Surrey Pre-trial Centre awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to commit murder in the slayings in a … Read More
Bacon associate pleads guilty, three others to be charged with Surrey Six massacre
METRO VANCOUVER – Four members of the Red Scorpions gang have been arrested in connection with the worst gangland slaying in B.C. history: the execution of six people in a Surrey highrise 18 months ago. One of the four, infamous gangster Dennis Karbovanec, pleaded guilty Friday in B.C. Supreme Court to three counts of second-degree murder for shooting three of … Read More
Legal Ramifications of Fatal Crash Give Pause For Thought
Canwest News Service Forthwith, it shall ever be known as The Full Monty Defence. You drink and drive. Maybe enough to blow over the limit, maybe not: Only an onsite breathalyser test would be able to establish that fact. Soon after, you get into an accident. Rather than staying at the scene of the accident, as the law and common … Read More
Shooting was in Self Defence: Accused
Richard’s fate now in hands of jury Matthew Wild Special to The Question The jury in the murder trial of the man accused in Whistler’s first homicide in 26 years was deliberating on the fate of Shane Robert Joseph Richard as The Question went to press on Wednesday (Jan. 28). Richard, 29, who is charged with second-degree murder in the … Read More
Murder Trial in Whistler
Special to The Question by Matthew Wild The jury in the murder trial of the man accused in Whistler’s first homicide in 26 years was deliberating on the fate of Shane Robert Joseph Richard as The Question went to press on Wednesday (Jan. 28). Richard, 29, who is charged with second-degree murder in the March 10, 2007, shooting death of … Read More
B.C. Lions’ Jacobs Won’t Face Charges
Canadian Press VANCOUVER (CP) – B.C. Lions defensive end Ray Jacobs, who was arrested last month after cocaine was found in his car, will not face criminal charges. "The Crown prosecutor… has concluded that Mr. Jacobs did not engage in any criminal conduct," Jacobs’ lawyers Michael Shapray and Marvin Stern said in a release Tuesday. The 31–year–old Jacobs has maintained … Read More