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Cops warn of rising gang tensions People connected to the Dhak and Duhre families are believed to be in danger, say police Investigators are concerned that the public could be caught in the crossfire JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Two brazen, targeted shootings of known B.C. gangsters in less than a month may be the kindling that sparks renewed gang warfare in the Lower Mainland, say police. The officer who heads the province’s gangs task force issued an “unusual” alert yesterday to anyone with links to two notorious crime families after a known gangster was shot and wounded last week in Surrey. Supt. Tom McCluskie told reporters both that incident and the high-profile slaying of Red Scorpions gang boss Jonathan Bacon in August amount to a high expectation by his 80 investigators that more attacks are on the way. “I’m not trying to instil fear in the citizens, but certainly there’s enough tension in there that we’re concerned there will be a retaliation,” he said at a news conference in Delta.
Supt. Tom McCluskie
The 24-year-old man shot in his car on Friday was a known member of the Dhak crime group, which police say runs an illegal drug ring throughout the Lower Mainland. One member of that family, Gurmit Dhak, was shot dead in his BMW at a suburban Burnaby mall last October, in another scenario police said was planned. While the public is not the intended target, McCluskie said, there’s no telling where or when the tension will flare up again as gang rivalries rear their head. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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