Police intelligence on heightened alert as recent high profile murders are apparently causing paranoia and chaos in criminal community

Hells Angels hold a funeral service
for slain member Green on October 29
at Vancouver’s Fraserview Hall.
Photo by Sukhwant Dhillon

October 16
* Hells Angel Robert (Bob) Keith Green, 56, of Burnaby Green was murdered in Langley. RCMP received a report of suspicious circumstances in the area of 23700 72nd Avenue and found Green suffering from injuries consistent with foul play. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was called in. Green succumbed to his injuries.

October 18
* IHIT announced that Jason Francis Wallace, 27, had been charged with second-degree murder in Green’s death. Police sources confirmed that Wallace was a member of the 856 gang that originated in Aldergrove. What is baffling is that the 856 group and the Hells Angels were cooperating with one another. In fact, according to one media report, Leonard Pelletier, who had been charged with drug trafficking along with Wallace in 2015, is Green’s cousin.

October 26
* Mohammad Rafiq, 44, associated to the Hells Angels’ White Rock Chapter, was shot shortly after 1 a.m. in the 6000-block of Broadway in Burnaby. He was located in a vehicle partially lodged inside a residence at the intersection of Broadway and Fell Avenue. He survived. CTV showed a high-powered rifle that was found at the scene.
* Shortly after 7 a.m., dismembered parts of a body that had been scattered in the 24300-block of Robertson Crescent were found. On October 28, police announced he was 27-year-old Shaun Alan Clary and was believed to have gang associations.

THE investigations are still ongoing into the high profile murders and at least one attempted murder that have rocked the Lower Mainland in the past month and a half as police try to figure out any connections between them. At this stage, there is nothing that can be publicly disclosed, police say.
However, there is one thing that they are sure of, and that is, as gang expert Staff-Sgt. Lindsey Houghton of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. put it to me on Thursday is: “Any time there are murders, especially murders of people of prominence and significance, it sends shock waves through that part of the criminal community. There are probably people that are questioning their choices.”

Lindsey noted that this is a lifestyle that breeds paranoia and chaos, especially when one of them is killed – when it’s one of their own or one of their friends.
When I asked Lindsey if police expected changes in the criminal world following the events mentioned above, he said that any time such events take place, especially ones where these individuals believe they are allies, friends or associates, “it sends even more shockwaves and ripples and we often see realignments, not necessarily “switching sides,” but we see people realigning, trying to fill the voids, those sorts of things.”

He added: “ It adds another element of chaos to their world where these people are in some cases literally scrambling to protect their self-interests, whatever little empires that they have built or managed to build, because in every case these are a house of cards and  they can come tumbling down, crashing down on them at any time whether their sugar daddy, if you will, or their supplier is taken out by the police or by a rival or by a friend or they are arrested, whatever it is, there are so many variables that contribute to this chaos.”
Lindsey pointed out: “That’s what’s important for us to get across to people. It’s not worth it. Things are always going to end badly.”

I then asked Lindsey if police intelligence was on heightened alert now as they try and figure out what’s going on, he replied: “Yes, absolutely. We are constantly at a state where we are always wanting to and actively seek out intelligence whether it’s to confirm information and intelligence or whether it’s to get new information and intelligence to advance investigations proactively or reactively.”
He added: “And any time you have a series of incidents like what we’ve seen happen in the last month and a half, it certainly heightens that need to be able to confirm and gather in order to be able to keep a lid on things.”

source : http://www.voiceonline.com/police-intelligence-on-heightened-alert-as-recent-high-profile-murders-are-apparently-causing-paranoia-and-chaos-in-criminal-community/