Three in ‘Sanghera crime group’ convicted on weapons charges
Posted May 17, 2012 5:55 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130)- A BC Supreme Court has convicted three of five men accused of dozens of weapons charges in connection to a violent gang war in Vancouver.
Boby, Navdip and Savdip Sanghera were convicted of a variety of weapons charges including possession of a prohibited weapon and unlawfully being in a vehicle with a firearm.
Charanjit Rangi and Jaspreet Virk were acquitted on all charges.
When the men were arrested, Vancouver police said they were part of the so-called Sanghera crime group.
Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu conceded at the time that a “brutal” gang war was being waged in the city and he alleged the Sanghera group was partly responsible.
Vancouver police claimed the group engaged in a series of retaliatory drive-by shootings during an escalation in gang violence in Vancouver in 2008 and 2009.
