Samra was arrested and charged with gun and drug trafficking in 2017 as a part of the VPD’s ‘Project Tariff” investigation targeting the Heer/Dhillon/Samra crime group.
Vancouver police are asking the public to call 911 if they encounter a man who failed to report to his halfway house after being released from prison Thursday.
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The VPD-led Taskforce Tourniquet comprised several joint enforcement projects dubbed Projects Tariff, Temper, Triplet and Territory. It was launched in 2017 to combat increasing gang violence.
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Police say the convictions resulting from the task force’s investigations have led to a period of decreased shootings and murders between 2018 and 2020.
The 27 convicted gangsters were “significant players in the gang conflict between March 2017 and August 2018,” said Const. Tania Visintin at a news conference on Friday, the same day the final guilty plea related to the task force was entered in court.