DB Services - 3rd world criminal builder - Bankrupt

The trustee has received 45 unsecured claims totalling about $12.3m. Under a best-case scenario, $126,019 would be available to unsecured creditors while any other senario returns zero.

Margaret McKay

DB Services of Victoria Inc., the builder of the fraudjob 11-storey RidgeView Place (formerly Danbrook One) in Langford has filed for bankruptcy. 147 unsecured creditors are stiffed for more than $51m says Margaret McKay. Investigation by Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia found the structural engineer on the project, Brian McClure, was not qualified and negligent. Danbrook One did not meet the building code, and the structural design included many deficiencies. No independent reviews of the building’s design were done before construction. Theodore Sorensen and Brian McClure are no longer engineers.

Matthew McKay

Owners of the vacant Danbrook One apartment building in Langford are suing the seller, builder, engineer and City of Langford for damages they claim were caused by negligence. The new building was evacuated days before Christmas 2019 and deemed too dangerous for habitation. Centurion Apartment Properties bought the 90 unit building in August 2019. Sorensen Trilogy Engineering (Brian McClure) was the structural engineer on the project. Design Build Services (DB Services) designed and built the property. They say Centurion should have done more due diligence, the idiots.

Brian@sorensentrilogy.ca

Long time Langford ex-Mayor Stew Young accepted no blame, naturally.

Remediation is said to be a minimum of $1m with Centurion losing $200k per month in lost rents. 28 serious concerns were outlined by Read Jones Christoffersen Limited Consulting Engineers (RJC). The building is not evenly supported enough to distribute weight to the foundation. This manner of grotesque issue ought never have happened. The remaining residents of Danbrook One were ordered out by the owner, Centurion Property Associates Inc. The letter states residents must “freely accept and fully assume all such risks, dangers and hazards and possibility of personal injury, death, property damage, expense and related loss, including loss of income or property.” There are multiple building code deficiencies, in addition to the lateral system load. The building, when being constructed, was listed for sale at $37,970,000.

An engineer alleged in court that he believed the designs were copied from drawings his firm made for another building in Victoria.

Shores have been installed on the second and third floors of Danbrook One. It appears the structure lacks multiple load bearing columns. The cost savings of NOT providing these columns would be large. A great deal of labor, concrete and steel reinforcement would not need to be paid for, with a corresponding direct increase to bottom line profitability. The temporary shores can only address concerns involving the gravity system. The lateral system load, if an earthquake shakes the structure, requires a far more extensive fix, one that shores alone cannot provide. A retrofit of that nature would be another never seen in this lifetime. This operation specializes in rental buildings, meaning quality in their shit construction doesn't need to exist.

Residents are being told to get out after the city received a report confirming major structural issues that represent a risk to tenants. On Dec. 3, the city received a notice from Engineering and Geoscientists BC about an investigation into violations of the building code by one of it's members.

Contractor was Victoria Construction. owen@victoria.construction. Owen Kelly.

Only through crime could the checks and balances in B.C.'s building trade be thwarted.

Concerns were proven valid. The city revoked the building's occupancy permit. There are deficiencies in the building’s structural design and its as-built structure. The builder is DB Services, owned by Matthew McKay, partner with his mother Margaret McKay and with Gary Lahnsteiner. There are some dozen odd buildings built by DB Services around Langford and each needs an independent engineering report to determine the potential for danger. The city has already found issues in another DB Services rental property. Your author has building experience, including site management. NEVER have I witnessed anything remotely close to this offense. The moral culpability of endangering people's lives is jaw dropping.

See ----->Owen Patrick Kelly - Victoria Construction - Danbrook One
See ----->Langford Mayor Stew Young

Ravinder Samra whacked - update

The killers of Ravinder Samra might have good reason to be getting paranoid. Cops have released photos of a pre-burned 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe and they say it sat for hours on the west side of the 8100-block Minler Road before the execution of Ravinder Samra. Killers should be wondering if cops have their photos too.

Ravinder Samra was killed by multiple gunshot wounds and died on the street. He joins his brother in the afterlife. Amarpreet Samra was shot and killed outside a banquet hall in Vancouver in May. 10 minutes after Samra was killed, a torched car was found on Blundell between No. 4 and No. 5 roads. See ----->Amarpreet 'Chucky' Samra shot dead

Port Metro Vancouver and HAMC - flashback 2015 - update II

It is being reported that the overpaid labourers on West Coast docks had an issue with a single word in their labour dispute, that being 'normal'. The provision at issue was that 'normal' maintenance work would continue to be done by union members. The 70 retards elected to the 'contract caucus' of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union shit themselves and decided they needed to continue their 18 day strike because 'normal' rubbed them the wrong way, the poor babies. No, we aren't making this up. Longshoremen in Vancouver can't figure out if they are on strike or not. Wage of $65 per hour for unskilled laborers isn't nearly enough. https://www.ilwu.ca/

The union representing B.C. port workers says its membership has voted to reject a mediated contract offer. Union leadership recommended the deal to its membership. A labour board ruled the second strike by the port workers was illegal, prompting the union to issue 72-hour strike notice, which it then reversed hours later. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is so ass-backward it is not funny. The on again off again strike is estimated to be costing the Canadian economy $250m per day. The 4-year package rejected by the ILWU included a compounded wage increase of 19.2%, a signing bonus of $1.48 per hour worked to be paid to each employee, (around $3,000) and an 18.5% increase to a modernization and mechanization retirement lump sum payment. Who are the organized criminals?

This appeared in 2015. A specialized police unit that investigates crime on the waterfront will be cut by almost a third after Port Metro Vancouver axed $400k a year of its funding. The cut takes effect Jan. 1, meaning the RCMP-led National Port Enforcement Team will be reduced from 13 to nine cops. The funding cut comes just months after a Vancouver Sun investigation revealed that at least 27 Hells Angels, associates, criminals and other gangsters work as longshoremen on the Port Metro Vancouver docks. Police documents show an unaddressed organized-crime problem on the waterfront dating back more than 20 years.

Damiano Dipopolo

Police told the Sun that organized crime maintains its foothold on the waterfront for strategic purposes — so drugs and other contraband can be smuggled in some of the more than 1.5 million containers that pass through the four container terminals at Port Metro Vancouver every year. Just over three per cent of the containers arriving are screened by the Canada Border Services Agency.

The Sun identified at least six full-patch Hells Angels who are active members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Some have worked on the docks for years, like Al DeBruyn, a senior White Rock Hells Angel who started in 1981. Other Hells Angels joined the longshoremen more recently. Rob Alvarez of the Nomads chapter and Damiano Dipopolo started on May 24, 2012. West Point Hells Angel Ryan Sept started just last year, nominated by another full-patch member of his chapter.

The Sun documented 27 active longshoremen with gang or criminal links from various sources of information, including public records and union membership lists. That number doesn’t include the “inactive” members of the union who are also Hells Angels — East End President John Bryce, Nomads Angel Gino Zumpano, Haney member Vince Brienza, West Point member Larry Amero and former Vancouver president Norm Krogstad.

Punjabi rapper Sidhu Moose Wala whacked - update

Sachin Bishnoi has been extradited to India from Azerbaijan. He is one of the accused in the high-profile murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala, who was fatally shot on May 29, 2022. Alongside Sachin Bishnoi, Lawrence Bishnoi is also implicated in the murder, as is Goldy Brar, a gangster wanted in Canada. They played a leading role in planning the assassination of Sidhu Moose Wala.

He was whacked in his Punjabi village in Mansa, a day after authorities cancelled his security detail. Goldy Brar and Lawrence Bishnoi have been implicated in Moose Wala’s murder.

Within hours of the killing Lawrence Bishnoi reportedly said on social media: “Today, Moosewala was killed in Punjab, I, Sachin Bishnoi, Lawrence Bishnoi take the responsibility. It’s our work. Moose Wala’s name surfaced in our brother Vikramjit Singh Middukhera and Gurlal Brar’s murder, but the Punjab Police did not take any action against him. We also came to know that Moose Wala was also involved in the encounter of our associate Ankit Bhadu. Moose Wala was working against us. Delhi Police had taken his name but Moose Wala used his political power and saved his skin each time.”

See ---->Gangster Dilpreet Singh, 'Baba' charged in hit

Michael 'The Nose' Mancuso headed back to slammer - sunk by gravy

Acting Bonanno mob boss Michael Mancuso is headed back to the slammer for 11 months — thanks partly to a chat with a wiseguy about making pasta gravy. Mancuso, 68, was released in 2019 after serving a decade in prison for a murder plot. He had been using his girlfriend’s Long Island eyeglass shop as a meet-up spot to gossip with mobsters, prosecutors said. That was verbotten. “Are you gonna do the gravy today or make the sauce?” Mancuso asked Colombo soldier Michael Urvino on an Oct. 24, 2020, wiretapped call. Urvino responded, “No, I’m making it in the morning … cause we’re not gonna eat early. What time you want to eat tomorrow?”

Michael Urvino

Verdict in the Marengo trial of Ridouan Taghi postponed

Saïd Razzouki, Ridouan Taghi.

A court in Amsterdam said weeks ago that the cases against main suspect Ridouan Taghi and 16 co-defendants are so complex that a new date will have to be established for a verdict. The original judgment date of October 20, 2023 is unfeasible, the court declared. Prosecutors are seeking life for Taghi and his right hand man Saïd Razzouki. The Marengo trial is one of the biggest murder trials in the history of the Netherlands and started over two years ago. The defendants are accused of planning 13 gangland murders, of which six were carried out between 2015 and 2017 in the ‘Mocro mafia’ drugs war. Investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries was murdered in 2021 because of his involvement in a gangland murder trial. Taghi and Razzouki are the leaders of the gang who set out to ruthlessly dominate the Dutch underworld.

Anyone considered a threat was put on Taghi’s death list including innocent people he feared could provide information to cops.

Taghi micro-managed some killings, ordering his hit teams to put three bullets into the head of one victim and to carry out the murders “with style.”

See ----->Marengo trial

Trevor Parkstrom - 'no regard for law and order'

One man crime wave Trevor Parkstrom, 48, has pleaded guilty to another half dozen charges throughout the Okanagan. Parkstrom puts the 'P' into prolific. When cops arrested Parkstrom in a stolen truck they linked him to 12 files since December 2022 and 22 files in the past 90 days. RCMP said that Parkstrom is named to 150 calls for service since 2013. Lawyers return on Oct. 5 to set a date for Parkstrom’s sentencing, which will take place in First Nations court in Kamloops. Parkstrom is free on bail at a Kamloops recovery facility. He likely won't stay caged for long if he does get time. In 2022, Kelowna had the highest reported crime rate of 10,532 per 100,000 residents. Lethbridge came in second at 9,358 and Winnipeg in third at 8,757. Citizens may look to Trevor Parkstrom as to why.

Amarpreet 'Chucky' Samra shot dead - update

Properties in Maple Ridge and Langley used in the dial-a-dope drug operation of brothers Ravinder and Amarpreet Samra stand to be seized. They join a $1.6m home in Richmond. A 2019 Dodge Ram 1500, a 2018 Mazda CX-9, a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee and a 2014 BMW X5 are also sought, along with $90k in jewelry. Gangster Amarpreet 'Chucky' Samra, 28, was gunned down at a wedding reception in May. The UN gangster's time ran out with many saying the killers are from the Brothers Keepers. A burning vehicle was found later. Both Samra and his older brother, Ravinder Samra, were guests at the wedding.

The brothers are aligned with the UN gang, which has been in violent conflict with the Brothers Keepers gang for years. Both Samra brothers were on a poster issued by cops that warned the public to stay away from them. In 2015 Ravinder Samra was shot twice in a hit attempt at the Cactus Club in Langley.

Career gangster Jason Himpfen in forfeiture crosshairs

The Province wants to keep the $80k it landed after busting wicked career terdbag Jason Himpfen. Himpfen, 48, is before the courts again on a series of drug and firearm charges. He was named in a public warning in 2021. Himpfen has an encylopedic criminal record, including convictions for trafficking, weapons, resisting or obstructing a cop, carrying a concealed weapon, and theft.

In 2016, Himpfen was charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Mandy Johnson, 22, in Abbotsford. Johnson was sitting in the passenger seat of a car driven by her boyfriend, Gater Browne. He was the intended target and was not scratched. Co-accused was the late Brothers’ Keepers founder Gavin Grewal. In November 2018 Himpfen was acquited though “Himpfen is probably or likely guilty”

HA arrive for 40th anniversary bash - update

Up to 300 bikers are gone. The weekend was relatively peaceful, noted cops. One incident occurred in a Langley restaurant where HA in colours were asked to leave and they refused to pay. Cops were involved until other Hells Angels eventually covered the bill.

Hundreds of bikers from across Canada are partying at the gang's compound in Langley to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the White Rock, East End and Nanaimo chapters. Peons from the puppet club Langford Savages were tasked with gate duty. Events gives cops a chance to photograph every biker coming or going.

Club events virtually never result in trouble. The gang's primary goal is to appear as big and bad in public as possible. The gang's goal is absolutely not to attract cop heat on business operations.