Tweet A 17-year-old American student who fell to his death from a viewing platform at the Capilano Suspension Bridge last June was high on LSD and had previously been caught by a school chaperone in an out-of-bounds area, says a BC Coroners Service report. Coroner Mark Coleman concluded that LSD was a contributing factor in [...]
Tweet Two members of a major cocaine trafficking ring operating out of Vancouver were sentenced Thursday to lengthy jail terms. Cesar Maidana, 56, was the supplier of the drug ring that moved large quantities of cocaine from a Vancouver apartment to Toronto and Montreal. He was sentenced to 14 years in jail, reduced to 13 [...]
Tweet Authorities say more than $800,000 worth of heroin was seized at the Vancouver airport last month during a security check. The drugs were found on April 22 after Canadian Border Services agents took aside a 32-year-old man arriving on a flight from Germany and inspected his luggage. An X-ray scan helped officers find a [...]
Tweet Vancouver police department Const. Peter Hodson was fired and arrested Wednesday after being charged with drug trafficking, breach of trust and break and enter with the intent to commit extortion. The 31-year-old officer, a former University of B.C. basketball player who later helped create literacy projects in Africa, is also accused of the illegal [...]
Tweet RCMP in B.C. have seized 1,001 kilograms of cocaine and charged two men who sailed into a remote Vancouver Island port on a 50-foot Panamanian-registered sailboat. Scott Pedersen, 39, of Victoria and Vicente Hernandez, 38, of Mexico were arrested March 6 in Port Hardy and later charged with one count each of possession of [...]
Tweet A 38-year-old man is facing smuggling charges after police say they found four kilograms of heroin hidden in his luggage at Vancouver International Airport last month. The Canadian resident was en route from India on Feb. 22 when Canada Border Services Agency officers became suspicious and ordered a search. Officers found the heroin hidden [...]