B.C. fentanyl overdoses setting records, again

B.C. recorded its deadliest month ever for drug overdoses. 175 people died in June, up from the record of 171 deaths set in May. Experts suggest that making dicetylmorphine (prescription heroin) more readily available would be one option to address the problem. “It's simple. If you just give those to people … all these massive costs to society would just go away.” A total of 189 people have died of COVID-19 in B.C.

Outlaws biker Ron Clause busted for assaulting cops, again

Ron Clause, 51, is charged with assaulting a peace officer.

A man charged with attacking an OPP officer during a traffic stop has links to an outlaw motorcycle club and a past conviction for assaulting a cop. Ron Clause was charged with assaulting a Middlesex OPP officer last week after cops pulled over a pickup truck that they say was carrying a gun, ammunition and 27 grams of meth. Clause was convicted of the same crime in 1996 and sentenced to four months in jail. A separate charge of assaulting a police officer that year was withdrawn.

Ryan Mark Daigneault

Clause’s social media connections include Outlaws. One of them is Ryan Mark Daigneault, president of the London Outlaws chapter, who was charged with organizing a hit on a Hells Angels three years ago. The Crown withdrew the charge against Daigneault in 2018, one week before he was supposed to go to trial for counselling to commit murder. The Hells Angels were said to be not pleased and would seek retribution. “The Hells Angels will lose credibility if nothing happens,” one Outlaw said. Nothing happened. London HAMC Chapter president is Rob Barletta.

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Gold robbers escape in Mexico, again

A light plane, described as a "Cessna-206 type," landed, and within 10 minutes everyone was gone.

Canadian miner Alamos Gold Inc. reports that a group of armed robbers intercepted gold dore bars on the runway at its Mulatos mine site in Mexico. The Mulatos mine is an open pit gold mine located in Sonora about 200km east of Hermosillo city. Five heavily armed robbers subdued security guards who were loading the bars for transport on a plane.

No one was hurt. The take is 2,600 ounces of dore bars, which are around 80% gold. That would make the heist worth a cool $3.2m. A mine owned by Mineria Penmont, a subsidiary of Fresnillo, was robbed a few weeks ago. Armored trucks transporting ingots were attacked and robbed by armed men in Caborca, Sonora.

It was not the first highway robbery of precious metals mined by Penmont, 47 doré bars, 722 kgs, were stolen in November.