The uniform gang enforcement team stopped 144 vehicles and checked 173 people
B.C.’s anti-gang agency — the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit — seized a cache of weapons and drugs during nine-day sweep of Kamloops last month.
During crack down, the CFSEU’s uniform gang enforcement team stopped 144 vehicles, checked 173 people and seized a variety of substances believed to be methamphetamine, crack cocaine and fentanyl. The anti-gang squads also seized 19 weapons, including a replica .357 magnum pellet gun, knives, brass knuckles and bear spray, and more than $48,000 in cash believed to be associated to the drug trade.
Violence related to organized crime in Kamloops has been more pronounced since the slaying of Konaam Shirzad, one of the founders of the Red Scorpions gang, who was shot to death outside his Guerin Creek home on Sept. 21, 2017.Last fall, investigators connected the October 2018 slaying of Troy Gold to the city’s drug trade. The suspect in that murder is an alleged gangster who remains active in the Kamloops drug trade.
In January, Rex Gill, a Summerland father of four, was shot dead in what police originally called a “targeted” shooting related to the gang war. The RCMP now believe the 41-year-old man was the victim in a deadly case of mistaken identity.
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