Tweet The Uniformed Gang Task Force interrupted a meeting of seven well-known gangsters and associates — some of whom had loaded assault rifles — in a busy Vancouver park Wednesday afternoon. The specialized anti-gang team came upon the group in Kensington Park, at 33rd Avenue and Knight Street, about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. Sgt. Bill Whalen [...]
Tweet Police are once again warning students to employ the buddy system when walking around the University of B.C. campus late at night after a third groping incident was reported since September. The latest incident happened at around 3 a.m. on Thursday in the lobby of a student residence on campus. A woman was waiting [...]
Tweet Seven people have been arrested in a joint operation by Surrey RCMP and Vancouver police for allegedly using stolen credit cards to buy items online. Surrey RCMP Insp. Wade Lymburner said Thursday that the complex, multi-jurisdictional investigation began after information on the criminal activities was supplied to police. The fraud ring used stolen credit [...]
Tweet Police officers will be at all three West Vancouver high schools today after threatening graffiti was found on a wall at one of the schools. West Vancouver Police Cpl. Fred Harding said school officials found a written threat on a wall of the south campus of West Vancouver secondary school about a week ago. [...]
Tweet A 47-year-old man is in custody after a stabbing and possible abduction in Vancouver on Sunday morning. Vancouver police Insp. Eric Grummisch said police went to the Cassandra Hotel in the 3000 block of Kingsway after reports of a woman screaming and being forced into a vehicle. Police in nearby New Westminster later picked [...]
Tweet Two motorcycle drivers were caught on film by a police helicopter Wednesday travelling at speeds of nearly 200 km/h as they blew through red lights between Coquitlam and North Vancouver. Police said the Lower Mainland Traffic Safety Helicopter Air 1 followed two motorcycles from Coquitlam to North Vancouver, where one driver obeyed police commands [...]
Tweet A city worked testified Thursday that he had witnessed numerous arrests by police over the years while working the late shift in downtown Vancouver. Phil Pylon said he saw police making almost nightly arrests of drunken brawlers along the Granville Street entertainment district as he went about his job. But there was something confusing [...]
Tweet The shrine to teenager Laura Szendrei has fresh flowers and the police tape still guards the murder scene in North Delta’s Mackie Park, but almost two weeks after she was attacked, Delta police are yet to make an investigative breakthrough. Standing just in front of the flower-girded pictures of Szendrei, Sgt. Sharlene Brooks pleaded [...]
Tweet Vancouver police have arrested three people who occupied a police station to protest the investigation into the death of a woman in the Downtown Eastside. A news release says eight protesters entered the police station Monday evening and told staff they weren’t leaving until they were given a meeting with the police chief. Five [...]
Tweet A man was arrested Friday afternoon for groping a woman near the corner of Alberni and Bute streets in downtown Vancouver, police said at a news conference Monday. Just a week ago, Vancouver police warned women that groping incidents are rising, particularly in the city’s downtown core. Leroy Edward Laboucan, 25, is charged with [...]