BBC News - Men face jail over £3m cocaine haul in Bishopbriggs

BBC News - Men face jail over £3m cocaine haul in Bishopbriggs: "Joseph Crichton and Stephen Currie were arrested last September after police swooped on their homes in Bishopbriggs.
Officers from Strathclyde's major crime and terrorism unit were involved in the raids and said it was the largest cocaine recovery in several years.
When drugs were found at Currie's property he claimed he thought it was talcum powder.
The High Court in Glasgow heard several packages of cocaine were discovered in Crichton's family home.
Some of the stash, which had a potential value of £411,000, was stuffed inside a plastic bag.
The cocaine seized from Currie had an estimated value of £2.8m.
Judge Lady Dorrian remanded the pair, both aged 46, in custody and deferred sentencing until next month."

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Son of Hells Angels associate held after assault

Son of Hells Angels associate held after assault: "19-year-old son of a suspected Hells Angels associate is in custody following a daring daylight assault and robbery outside an Aldergrove community police office.
Caylen Pelletier is one of three men accused of running another man down in a car last Sunday.
Pelletier's father, Leonard, made headlines in 2007 after he and Caylen's then-14-year-old brother escaped severe injury after crashing their Hummer in a hail of gunfire near Peterson Road elementary school just as morning classes were beginning.
Langley RCMP received a call just after noon on Sunday from a young man complaining that three men had run him down in their car as he was walking in the 27000-block of the Fraser Highway."

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Manslaughter plea negotiated in 2008 killing of cocaine dealer

Manslaughter plea negotiated in 2008 killing of cocaine dealer: "northern Alberta man pleaded guilty Wednesday to manslaughter for the 2008 killing of his drug dealer.
On the advice of his lawyer, Anthony Shilmar had earlier led RCMP to a remote area near Little Smokey River where he buried a house trailer with the remains of Jeffrey Dykuizen inside. He advised them on how to dig it up using heavy equipment.
Shilmar was originally charged with first-degree murder. But under an agreement with the Crown, he pleaded guilty Wednesday to manslaughter and performing an indignity to a human body.
In an agreed statement of facts, court heard that in May 2008, Dykuizen and Shilmar had agreed the drug dealer could live in a trailer on the accused’s rural property near Fox Creek in exchange for cocaine. The arrangement had been made about a month prior to May 3, the day Dykuizen was killed.
Court heard that in the hours leading up to the death, Shilmar had “repeatedly and heavily ingested cocaine supplied by the deceased.”
That same day, Shilmar discovered Dykuizen had chained Deryk Law up in the trailer and beaten him with a hammer and a gun because he owed a $200,000 drug debt."

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‘Severe sentence’ urged in Creba death | Posted Toronto | National Post

‘Severe sentence’ urged in Creba death | Posted Toronto | National Post: "notorious Toronto gun crime was invoked on Wednesday during the sentencing hearing for two men convicted of manslaughter in the death of Jane Creba.
Crown attorney Maurice Gillezeau pointed to the 15-year sentence imposed for manslaughter against one of the men convicted in the 1994 Just Desserts shooting and suggested a similar penalty for Louis Raphael Woodcock and Tyshaun Barnett.
“I am asking you to hand down a severe sentence,” the Crown said to Ontario Superior Court Justice Gladys Pardu. “I am asking for a sentence of at least 15 years.” Ms. Creba was fatally wounded on Boxing Day 2005 as she crossed Yonge Street just north of the Eaton Centre, while out shopping with her sister. The 15-year-old high school student was caught in the crossfire of a gun battle between two rival groups outside of a Foot Locker store.
Woodcock, 23, and Barnett, 23, were originally charged with second-degree murder and accused of firing guns in the shootout. They were convicted by a jury this spring of manslaughter and four counts of aggravated assault, related to others wounded in the gun battle."

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WGME 13 Maine News

WGME 13 Maine News: "president of the Maine chapter of the Outlaws motorcycle gang has been ordered held without bail two days after he and other Outlaws members were arrested across many states and charged with multiple crimes.

Forty-one-year-old Thomas Benvie of Sanford faces two racketeering charges.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Wolff told federal Judge George Singal on Thursday that Benvie owned the .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol that fellow Outlaws member Thomas Mayne used to fire at federal agents Tuesday morning. The agents -- who were trying to arrest Mayne at his Old Orchard Beach home -- fired back, killing Mayne."

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