Overview

Traffic on the blog has spiked once again so I thought I'd recap some of the top stories to keep them fresh in our minds before they get buried in the archives.

Operation Skeletor

The David Giles drug trafficking trial out of Kelowna has finally hit the court and is big news. Operation Skeletor as I refer to it rising out of the Kelowna Summer Jam is the largest and most successful police undercover operation in the history of the province. The Panama connection makes it significant.

The bust came after Pat Fogarty, the person in charge of the ang Task force came up with some absolutely ridiculous statements claiming that there is no wolf pack and that the Kelowna Hells Angels aren't the problem, it's the other guys we have to worry about. That prompted me to make a post questioning what side he was on because he was obviously wrong running interference for the Hells Angels in the press.

The joint operation between the RCMP, Gang Task force and the OMGU proved him wrong in a very big way which forced us to question his leadership. Was he just an idiot? Who told him to say that? Some of the officers in the field? That would be scary indeed.

The David Giles drug bust involved the interception of $4 million in exchange for 200 kilos of cocaine which was partial payment for a plan to purchase more than 500 kilograms of cocaine for over $14 million. The Vancouver Province reported that it was suposed to be 500 kilos a month. This proved Pat Fogarty wrong in a very big way as did the stolen car boat and motorcycle ring tied to the Kelowna Hells Angels. It was a huge operation that Hells Angels associate Johnny Newcome plead guilty to. Johnny Newcome ran the chop shop out of Cycle logic which was owned by Richard Goldammer. It was a huge stolen car ring tied directly to the Hells Angels.

Tragically but not surprisingly, after they did such a great job on those two busts Christy clark's government cutting funding to the Gang Task force and gor rid of the OMGU. Just like they eliminated the police task force that investigated money laundering in BC Casinos after it issued a dammed report about how bad it was. That is organized crime. When the government gets rid of a police task force after it successfully disrupted an organized crime ring.

After sabotaging future operations, Pat Fogarty the second rose up once again trying to convince us that the Hells agels aren't a problem in BC any more. That is a lie. They just stopped investigating them. Nevertheless, Operation Skeletor is clearly the most successful undercover police operation in the history of the province. They should be promoting people involved with that not clowns like Bill Fordy.

Operation Skeletor makes up for sabotaging Operation Phoenix and the Western Wind bust. It was even more successful than EPandora which was groundbreaking even thought the convictions were much less significant.

Edmonton Hells Angles drug bust

The post about Dominic DiPalma Jr. from the Edmonton Hells Angles getting busted with two kilos of cocaine is getting a of of traffic. December 2013 I named him as the member in charge of the Whiteboy posse. That makes him responsible for all their drug trafficking and all their violence enforcing for drug debts. Dominic DiPalma was sentenced to six years for cocaine trafficking.

Prince George brutal assault

The new news in Prince George is the fact that Kitt Alwood was implicated in that brutal sexual assault in Prince George. The court records claim one of the accused cell phone records claimed she collected drug debts for Kitt Alwood. January 2013 I named her as the predator using a clothing line and a bad rap music promotion to lead young kids astray.

Kelowna couple found dead

The post about a couple in Kelowna found dead recently is getting a lot of traffic. One of the victims was Marcello Verna. Marcello was the nephew of Hells Angel Carlo Verna.Tragically, his mother, Calo's sister, also died back in 2013 at the age of 43. June 2013 I wrote a blog post about Carlo Verna expressing my concern that the club might screw him over after the took all his money. It is a real tragedy his family members are dying all of a sudden. With friends like those, who needs enemies?

City orders Buddhist Temple torn down

The Vancouver Province is reporting that the city of Burnaby is ordering a buddhist Temple destroyed because they didn't have a building permit. The Province also points out they need a permit to tear it down as well so the irony is shameful.

How many times have dirty politicians flipped agricultural land into industrial to pay off their dirty campaign contributors? Lets start with the Campbell Heights money laundering centre in Surrey. Then let's look at the proposed Mega Casino in South Surrey all the residents freaked out about. The plan was to build the mega casino on agricultural land and have the city flip it into industrial so their dirty campaign contributors could make a fortune just like they did in Campbell Heights. They are rezoning a huge amount of agricultural land in Delta for a freaking shopping mall destroying migratory bird habitat forever and thay's OK.

So now the dirty politicians won't make any concessions for something as positive as a Buddhist temple. Anyone who has studied martial arts knows that Buddhist Temples are a sacred positive influence in society. Much more so than a casino that launders drug money for organized crime.

Shots fired in Surrey

The Vancouver Province is reporting that "Surrey RCMP were called to the area of 62nd Avenue and 142nd Street around 6:30 p.m. Saturday after a number of 911 callers reported hearing what they believed to be shots. According to a statement from the police, shell casings were located in the area and witnesses reported the occupants of one vehicle had been firing at another vehicle. Both vehicles “drove off,” the police said. Further investigation found further shell casing two blocks away at 142nd Street and 64th Avenue. An abandoned white Ford pickup which matched witness descriptions was found nearby with bullet holes."

Lonnie Landrud and the murder of Deena Braem

This one kind of baffles me. Deena Lyn Braem was last seen alive hitchhiking to her home in Bouchie Lake from Quesnel on September 25, 1999. Her body was recovered on December 10, 1999 north west of Quesnel near Pinnacles Provincial Park. In 2009 the Vancouver sun reported that 10 years later Deena's death is still a mystery.



Deena was murdered on the highway of Tears. The Highway of Tears dates back to 1998 when the name was used at a vigil in Terrace to pay tribute to five women who at that time had disappeared along the 720-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 connecting Prince George to Prince Rupert.The Prince George Citizen reported that the murders along the highway of tears date back to 1969 and continued in the /70's so it started before and continued after Robert Pickton. The Highway of Tears web site claims the number of murders are up to 40.

The Lonnie Landrud story is bizarre yet he seems so coherent. He claims he witnessed the murder of Deena Braem and claims she was murdered by a police officer. We've talked about means and motive in the past. I see no motive in a cop killing this young girl. We have heard of cops stealing drugs from police lock ups. We heard that sex trade workers claims police officers extrted them into perofming sexua favoyr claiming that if the didn't have sex with the police officer they would arrest them for prostitution. These things are believable but murder?

A New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report claiming that police abuse of aboriginal women in BC included threats, torture and sexual assault. The report also contains troubling and graphic allegations of physical and sexual abuse, including from a woman, identified as homeless, who describes how police took her outside of town and raped her. Rhoad said the woman told her the officers then, "threatened that if I told anybody they would take me out to the mountains and kill me and make it look like an accident."

Rape is believable but murder seems extreme. We know Jim Brown is a freak and the Dianne Rock story raises huge concerns. Obviously not all cops are bad. Yet when we see idiots like bill fordy getting promoted it is clear that there is corruption in the administration of the RCMP. How far that rabbit hole goes is something I simply cannot answer.

Kitt Alwood implicated in brutal Prince George sexual assault

The Prince George Citizen is reporting that "Mercedes Rae Jewett appeared in custody Thursday alongside co-accused Hayden Lee Alwood, 20, for a sentencing hearing after each pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault and unlawful confinement. Jewett also previously pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm, while Alwood is also guilty of assault with a weapon. In all seven people, including five minors who cannot be named, have pleaded guilty for their part in the Jan. 7 2013 assault on the two victims, who were 17 at the time of the offence."

The day after the assault "Jewett had been arrested and her phone seized, complete with text messages bragging of the crime and other messages that the Crown said showed she was working for Alwood's mother in some capacity to enforce drug debts." Mercedes bragged about the assault and collected drug debts for Hayden's mother Kitt Alwood.



Kitt Alwood was the predator getting young kids involved with lousy fake rap music and ran an urban underground clothing line known as CRU clothing. The Crew just happened to be the name of a puppet club in Prince George that sold crack for the Hells Angels. Here's a picture of the accused Hayden Alwood posing with the deranged Madchild Shane Bunting:



"The Court heard Jewett started drinking at 13, using crack cocaine by 16, which became a daily habit at 17 when she started working on the street to support the habit. She quit when she became pregnant, but was back at it six months after the birth of her daughter." This is a pictue of Mercedes in a crack house posing wiht a blown up condom in her mouth.



"In an agreed statement of facts, court heard Jewett threw a party at her home and woke up the next morning recalling a dream of a male tugging down her pants. A 15-year-old girl said she'd had a similar dream. So Jewett called a number of friends to tell them "that a guy had broken into their apartment and tried to rape them," Crown said. They found an iPod in the room and decided that the culprit was connected to the device, and tracked down the owner. Jewett invited the 17-year-old boy to her apartment the next day. When he showed up, at least six people were waiting for him and he was almost immediately punched in the face."

So here we have a crack addict and street worker who collects drug debts for Kitt Alwood telling the court that she told her coaccused that the victim raped her. Yet that claim fails the test of believability. No doubt everyone was repeating that claim to rationalize the brutality of the assault which included sodomising the victim with a broomstick before leaving them half dead in the snow. Yet if the victim had actually raped Mercedes who was older and tougher than the victim, would they not get suspicious when Mercedes invited him over to her home afterwards? The only believable part of the story is that they brutally sexually assaulted the victims and that Mercedes did in fact collect drug debts for Kitt Alwood. That part is believable. The rape story is not which once again shows the mob mentality of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.



Glen Louis, also known as G Money also "worked" for Kitt Alwood. He was a horrible rapper that bragged about collecting drug debts and wrote about releasing his "family" Mercedes and Hayden from prison after being arrested for the assault. He counseled one of the younger kids in a song to take the fall for them instead. Raising kids without consequences is child abuse.

All of the little rat crew wore T-shirts that said Free EmCee Dusty referring to Dustin Lee Pierini. Dustin was involved with Scott Payne who cut off a guy's finger for a $170.00 drug debt owed to the Crew. So these are the little deranged rats posting pictures of them with cats as members of the KKK - Kitty Kat Killars who took over the real Crew after the big boys retired. Little freaks.



The rape allegation was a complete fabrication. Older kids were present egging them on. That Is what empowered them in their brutality and is why they had no remorse.

Judge orders inspection of Kelowna and East Vancouver Hells Angels clubhouses

The Vancouver Province is reporting that "A judge has agreed to allow the provincial director of civil forfeiture to conduct an inspection of two Hells Angels clubhouses being targeted in court proceedings. On Friday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Barry Davies approved a consent order that had been signed by all parties allowing an inspection to be carried out of the Vancouver and Kelowna clubhouses."

The Kelowna and East Vancouver clubhouses have not yet been seized only the Nanaimo clubhouse has. Instead the police have applied to the courts for the right to seize those two clubhouses. Clearly the Kelowna clubhouse has been the root of a great deal of crime. The question is, was it purchased with the proceeds of crime. It is incomprehensible how it was not purchased with the proceeds of crime and should be seized. It's time to take out the trash.

Kelowna Fentanyl Drug Bust

Kelowna Cap News is reporting that "Kelowna Mounties are recommending criminal charges against four suspects after raiding two West Kelowna properties Wednesday."

"The RCMP executed a search warrant March 2 at a commercial property in the 2600 block of Auburn Crescent which yielded the following seizures: An estimated 500 “fake” Percocet and OxyContin pills; 195 grams of powder suspected to be Fentanyl; 2 industrial pill presses in which police believe each have the capacity of producing approx. 2500 pills per hour; Chemical mixer, which showed significant signs of use; 8 kg of suspected Fentanyl powder recovered from a shop vacuum believed to be used to clean up after pill production;"

"A second search warrant was also executed at a rural property in the 700 block of Petterson Road in West Kelowna which resulted in the seizure of: An estimated 800 “fake” OxyContin pills suspected to be laced with Fentanyl and Several gold bars, which police suspect may be related to a reported theft." Why does theft always coincide with drug busts?

"Police estimate that this operation has potentially produced hundreds of thousands of pills, likely distributed locally and possibly beyond. After the nearly three month long investigation, four individuals are facing potential charges, a 37-year-old man & a 26-year-old woman both of West Kelowna, as well as a 29-year-old Kelowna man and a 25-year-old Calgary man. The list of charges include possession of a controlled substance, possession for the purpose of trafficking, production of a controlled substance, and importation of a controlled substance."

"The Kelowna RCMP SEU have also been successful in shutting down other similar illegal drug operations throughout the Kelowna Region over the past few months."

Two bodies found in Kelowna - Another Update

CTV is reporting that police found a man and woman's body in West Kelowna Wednesday morning. The Vancouver Province reports that "West Kelowna RCMP said they responded to a report of sudden death at 7:02 a.m. after the discovery of two bodies in the area of Shannon Way and Westville Way. The bodies were found off the roadway in a wooded area."

Update: Global is reporting that "Police have yet to name the two people found dead in the woods just off Shannon Way in West Kelowna on Wednesday morning, but Facebook posts from friends and family are mourning the deaths of Marcello Verna and Kimberly Ansell. RCMP are confirming that a weapon was recovered at the scene and are still referring to the case as sudden deaths but are not looking for suspects." That would tragically imply murder suicide unless they simply have no suspects to look for.

Kelowna Info News is reporting that Ansell was a mother of two and Verna was a recent graduate from Immaculata High School in Kelowna. Carlo Verna was at one time a full patch Hells Angel until they sucked him dry and stole all his money.



Tragically another body was found inside a vehicle in the area of Bear Creek Road, about two kilometres past Parkinson Road in West Kelowna January of this year. The Peachland view reported that it was Twenty-two year old Tura McCarty of Summerland. Police classified the suspicious death as a homicide and said McCarty was targeted by his killer.



In 2013 Police reported that two bodies found in a black SUV that had crashed into a light standard in a condominium parking lot were victims of a homicide, not a car crash. Police confirmed that Tiffany June Goruk and Jeremy Daniel Snow were the victims of that homicide. Jeremy was involved in a cross border drug bust back in 2009.



Apparently there have been several missing persons in BC the last few months. Global is reporting that "The Delta Police are investigating after a missing person’s case led them to finding human remains at an unoccupied home on Tsawwassen First Nations land." The RCMP claim "Although the residence is on Tsawwassen First Nation Land, we do not believe it is connected to the Tsawwassen First Nation." Sometimes criminals dump bodies on First Nations land to hide the identity of the suspects.

Update: Looks like the Popo are going to blow it off as a murder suicide. How convenient. Was Jeremy and Tiffany a murder suicide? I think not. Lest we forget that Larry Pace (Lars) who now lives in Kelowna, plead guilty to murder n Halifax where he hit someone over the head with a baseball bat and injected him with a lethal dose of heroin to make it look like an OD. Murder suicide just doesn't make sense like with Jesse Haddan's friend in Maple Ridge. And just for the record, Brandy Sarionder didn't commit suicide either.

New Update: Castanet is clarifing that: "Const. Jesse O’Donaghey says the RCMP does not have any suspects to look for at this point in the case, but this may change in the future, as the investigation is ongoing.' That would imply that it is not a murder suicide.

Another Update: Tragically, Marcello's mother passed away in 2013 at the age of 43. The obituary lists Carlo Verna as her brother which would make Marcello Carlo Verna's nephew.

Rod Sweeney's trial has begun

The Canadian Press is reporting that Winnipeg Hells Angel Rod Sweeney's trial has begun. He is accused of chasing down a guy and his kid on their bicycles while in his car and beating him with a metal pole.

Update: In 2011 Kevin Sylvester shot Hells Angel Rod Sweeney in the head as he sat in his tow truck with his young son beside him in retaliation for the disapearance and presumed murder of his brother Darwin Sylvester, who was president of the former Spartans motorcycle club. In 2001 Dale Sweeney, a member of the Angels and brother of Rod Sweeney was charged with attempted murder for shooting Kevin Sylvester.

The Winnipeg Free Press reported that in 1982 "the Los Brovos and the Spartans merged - the Spartans were led by Darwin Sylvester, Graham's younger brother. The reason for merger was to present a united gang the Hells Angels could take over. With the merger, the Spartans ceased to exist."

"The merger unravelled in late 1983 when two Los Brovos were arrested for the rape of 27-year-old woman. The crime made headlines after a deputy police chief was brought in to mediate between the bikers and the victim's angry brothers and father. A van the rape victim's sister owned was found rigged with dynamite. Sylvester and his fellow former Spartans wanted the accused kicked out of the merged gang, feeling they were bad for publicity and brought too much heat. The Los Brovos refused. Sylvester left the gang." Things got ugly after that.

However, "In June 1975, three Spartans gang members -- including its co-founder, Graham Sylvester -- were charged with the rape of a 16-year-old girl. They were later convicted."

"In late 1994, Stadnik flew to Winnipeg and demanded a truce between the two gangs. He set up a third motorcycle gang, the Red Liners, of independent bikers and known drug dealers. The thinking was that by throwing a third gang into the mix, the pot would really start to boil. Whoever rose to the top would become a Hells Angel.

In May 1996, longtime Los Brovos member David Boyko was murdered in Halifax while attending a Hells Angels event. It's believed Magnussen shot Boyko to death to move up the Hells Angels' ranks. In May 1998, Magnussen's bound, decomposed body was pulled out of the St. Lawrence Seaway. He had been beaten to death, wrapped in plastic and dumped in the seaway.

"Ten years later, the violence has renewed, and at the centre of it is the Hells Angels, which despite three high-profile police stings that led to numerous arrests of members and associates, have yet to suffer a knockout blow."

Prince George, Abbotsford and Nanaimo shootings, prison fatality

The RCMP are reporting that they responded to a shooting in Prince George Sunday morning. Someone fired a shotgun at a house then fled the scene. News 1130 is reporting that there was a suspicious death at the Fraser Regional Correctional Facility in Maple Ridge last night. The altercation was a fight between two individuals.

Abby News is reporting there was a shooting in Abbotsford Sunday morning. The Surrey Leader reported that ERT was in Surrey monday evening executing a warrant on a robbery suspect.



Update: The Nanaimo Blletin is reporting that: "Two men are in custody and the police investigation continues into what appears to be a drive-by shooting in Nanaimo today. Police responded to calls about shots fired on Wakesiah Avenue near Second Street shortly before 4 p.m. "We had reports of multiple shots fired into an unoccupied vehicle parked in a residential area of Nanaimo near a children's daycare," said Const. Gary O'Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman."