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VANCOUVER – Two Indo-Canadian men are among seven people charged with drug trafficking in a 2018 Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia (CFSEU-BC) led investigation.
CFSEU-BC has laid 38 criminal charges have now been laid against 25-year-old Sahel Sandhu and 37-year-old Gurjap Singh Bhullar and five others after an investigation that proactively targeted alleged drug trafficking related to gang activity in the Mission and Abbotsford areas.
Sandhu faces 7 counts and is charged with 4 counts of Trafficking in a Controlled Substance and 3 counts of Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking.
Bhullar faces 5 counts and is charged with 2 counts of Trafficking in a Controlled Substance and 3 counts of Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking.
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When Vancouver police raided a Langley farm in November 2017 as part of a gang investigation, they found stolen cars, stacks of licence plates, bulletproof vests, gas canisters, black clothing with the Walmart tags still on and a dozen firearms.
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“These kill kits were all assembled and ready to go at this farm,” VPD Supt. Lisa Byrne said this week.
There were also two grenades, a silencer, an overcapacity magazine, balaclavas and latex gloves.
There were also two grenades, a silencer, an overcapacity magazine, balaclavas and latex gloves. Police believe the blueberry farm, co-owned by a man linked to the Brothers Keepers gang, was being used as a staging ground by would-be hitmen. No charges were laid in connection with the rural property on 240th Street. But owner Dave Sharma and other family members were taken to court last year by the B.C. government, which alleged the 17-acre farm was being used for criminal activity. After first denying the allegations in court documents, the Sharma family agreed to settle the claim in October by paying more than $200,000 to the director of civil forfeiture.
I put this weekend feature together over the course of a few days last week to try to put in some context all the violence we have seen so far this year. Unfortunately the violence is continuing with the May 22 murders in Coquitlam and Calgary, as well as the May 20 hit in Nanaimo – all of which appear to be linked to the Lower Mainland gang conflict. Here’s the weekend feature: Anatomy of a Metro Vancouver hit: Imported hit men, kill kits, guns.