March 29, 2024

Cocaine bust in Langley

Langley mounties have made a big cocaine bust. It happened last Thursday morning in the 2-7-200 block of 8th Avenue. Police were called about three occupants of a van throwing three hockey bags into a ditch. RCMP recovered two of the bags containing 21 bricks of cocaine, worth half-a-million dollars on the street. However, the third bag and the … [Read more...]

Drug smuggler who swallowed more than a kilo of cocaine stopped at YVR

A smuggler – who swallowed 42 condoms filled with drugs – was kept from boarding a plane to Australia, thanks to a routine check by security at YVR. The man was detained last month and kept in a controlled environment at a local hospital until the narcotics could be recovered. The condoms were filled with liquid cocaine, amounting to a … [Read more...]

Cocaine, $10,000 cash missing from Nanaimo RCMP

Mounties in Nanaimo have revealed that drugs and a stack of cash have been missing from an evidence locker since last December. The detachment's chief superintendant, Norm McPhail, says 0.3 grams of cocaine and $ 10,000 disappeared as they were being moved to permanent storage. Officers from Victoria are now looking into the incident, while one … [Read more...]

Bacon brother in court for cocaine trafficking

With millions of dollars in illicit cross border drugs at stake, we're getting a peak into the drug dealing world of the Bacon brothers today.       It comes at Jarrod Bacon's trial on a cocaine trafficking charge.  Money was no object.   Jarrod Bacon had $ 3 million available to buy cocaine, and he voiced … [Read more...]

Bacon pleads not guilty on cocaine charge

  Accused gangster Jarrod Bacon has entered a not guilty plea to a charge of conspiracy to traffic cocaine. He's appearing by video link at his BC Supreme Court trial in Vancouver. Also charged with the same count of trafficking is Bacon's alleged associate Wayne Scott. Crown lawyers claim the offences took place in Abbotsford and around BC … [Read more...]

Cocaine dealer case dismissed due to delays

VANCOUVER - An "unrepentant" Prince George cocaine dealer has been allowed to walk away from his conviction because the legal process took almost four years between his arrest and conviction.In a scathing judgment, Provincial Court Judge Michael Brecknell blames a serious lack of court resources for the delay."The fact that an unrepentant drug … [Read more...]

2 men convicted of sailing cocaine to Vancouver Island

VICTORIA -; Two men arrested in connection with a massive cocaine bust on the northern tip of Vancouver Island have been found guilty. Thirty-nine-year-old Scott Pedersen of Victoria, B.C., and 38 ... Vancouver News latest RSS headlines - Big News Network.com … [Read more...]