VANCOUVER – A B.C. 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.
Originally seven men faced charges, but last year, the same charges were stayed against Gordon Taylor and Udham Sanghera – the purported leader of the group.
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