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All Four charged in murder plot that saw innocent Cranbrook couple
executed
By KIM BOLAN, VANCOUVER SUNNovember 3, 2010
LeaAnne MacFarlane, 43, and Jeff Taylor, 42, were gunned down May 29.
Photograph by: Facebook, ...Four men have been charged with conspiracy
to commit murder for a plot in which two people were executed by
mistake last May in their rural Cranbrook rental home.
The suspects are Lonnie James Adams, 33; Colin Raymond Correia, 33;
Lorne William Carry, 28, and Chad Everett Munroe, 33, who police say
are Cranbrook drug traffickers.
Each faces one count of conspiracy to commit murder; conspiracy to
commit aggravated assault, and counselling to commit the offences of
aggravated assault and murder.
The charges relate to a plot to kill Doug Mahon, a 39-year-old from a
rival drug gang who once rented the house where LeaAnne MacFarlane,
43, and Jeff Taylor, 42, were gunned down May 29.
Sgt. Shinder Kirk of the Gang Task Force said Wednesday that the
suspects “are no strangers to police” and were arrested without
incident last week. They have been remanded in custody.
“We want to emphasize that this investigation is not over and
additional arrests are expected,” Kirk said.
MacFarlane and Taylor were successful business owners who planned to
open a cellphone store in Cranbrook. They had recently moved from
Salmon Arm, where they had operated their first store.
“Although police will not speculate on the motive for this murder, we
do confirm that the intended target of the earlier murder conspiracy
had previously occupied the home. This murder remains unsolved, and is
currently under investigation by Kelowna major crime investigators,”
Kirk said.
The new Kelowna branch of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit
led the probe of the conspiracy, which Kirk said involved a feud
between two rival drug gangs with links to Metro Vancouver biker
groups.
He wouldn’t say which biker gang police suspect is linked, but one of
the accused, Munroe, was once convicted along with full-patch Mission
Hells Angels Jason Arkinstall of causing a disturbance at Big White on
New Year’s 1999.
More recently, Arkinstall successfully challenged the
constitutionality of Surrey’s bylaw allowing electrical inspectors to
go into homes without warrants to search for marijuana growing
operations.
Kirk said the Cranbrook drug gang conflict started just over a year
ago when RCMP were called after a shooting in front of the Sam Steele
Hotel on Oct. 29, 2009. One man was injured.
Mahon and two other men were charged at the time. Their case remains
before the courts.
“The shooting has led to ongoing tensions between two rival drug
factions resulting in a heightened threat to public safety,” Kirk
said.
He said investigators later learned of the murder conspiracy and
intervened. Police also seized an assault rifle and two other firearms
during the probe.
All four suspects arrested are known drug traffickers, as is the
target of the murder plot, he said.
“These arrests and the seizure of several weapons will go a long way
to reduce the threat to the public and police officers alike,” Kirk
said.
“The potential for violence in this investigation was significant,
violence that could have erupted at any time in any number of areas
frequented by the public.”
The violence of HA is not restricted to just their fellow criminals.
The House Of Commons Justice Commitee should outlaw HAMC as a
terrorist group.