Five people were arrested Friday evening as B.C. climate activists wrapped up 14 consecutive days of protest ahead of the United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Vancouver police confirmed they have one person in custody after a shooting that left a neighborhood already reeling from a weekend shooting in more turmoil.
VANCOUVER Vancouver police are investigating after a man was found dead in his home in East Vancouver on Monday morning. Police say Jin Cai, 53, was murdered. “Officers were called to the home, near Victoria Drive and East 49 Avenue, shortly before 11 a.m. yesterday, after a body was discovered inside,” reads a statement from the Vancouver Police Department’s Sgt. Steve Addison. No arrests have been made, and the force’s major crime section has been assigned to the case. Cai’s murder brings the city’s total number of homicides for 2021 up to nine, Addison said. Anyone with information on Cai or the incident is asked to call detectives at 604-717-2500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
VANCOUVER A Vancouver man is out thousands of dollars after a jewelry scam in the city’s east side, prompting a warning from police that similar incidents could be on the rise as weather warms up and provincial health restrictions ease. In a statement Tuesday, the Vancouver Police Department confirms a 61-year-old resident of the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood was ripped off on Monday afternoon. Police say he was walking near Joyce Street and Vanness Avenue around 3 p.m. that day when a man and a woman in a white SUV approached him, claiming they needed money to feed their kids, and to buy a plane ticket home.
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