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A witness in Michael Jones, Jason McBride and Jujhar Singh Khun-Khun香蕉视频直播檚 murder trial said he was making a brisk living selling drugs in the Okanagan, supplied by Sukh Dhak 香蕉视频直播� the younger brother of Gurmit Dhak, a member of an Indo Canadian gang that rose to prominence in the Lower Mainland in the early 2000s.

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Soon he was making more than when he dealt in Surrey.

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Sukh Dhak, the witness explained, had been a friend since they were in their teens, selling pot. As they got older he and a small group of friends started dealing cocaine and crack.

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In just a few more years, he said, the bonds they forged earlier in life took the shape of a criminal organization, with a hierarchy falling into place. Sukh Dhak香蕉视频直播檚 leadership became more clear. If they wanted to sell dope they 香蕉视频直播渉ad to go through him香蕉视频直播� and he was 香蕉视频直播済iving out orders.香蕉视频直播�

The witness said he never met with Gurmit Dhak, to secure a line of drugs. He did, however, discuss their shared business interests over dinner with friends, at hockey games, in clubs and at concerts.

He was also present for conversations where Gurmit Dhak香蕉视频直播檚 role in the organization was highlighted.

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The Bacon brothers were the heads of the Red Scorpion gang that was based out of Abbotsford.

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While Gurmit Dhak was able to broker a peaceful co-existence between the Red Scorpions and the Dhak Group, he was gunned down by other rivals in a Metrotown parking lot in 2010.

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Sukh Dhak was looking for who killed his brother and, in time, came to the understanding that Larry Amero was responsible for his brother香蕉视频直播檚 death and James Riach was also involved, said the witness.

The witness testified he knew Riach was an Independent Soldier from the Vancouver area and Amero was a full patch Hells Angel. Sukh Dhak香蕉视频直播檚 associates were to look for them.

The court has already been told how the search culminated in a shooting outside the Delta Grand hotel 香蕉视频直播� something the witness has not indicated he knew would happen, though he was active in

along with Leah Hadden-Watts and Lyndsey Black. Bacon was the only one who died. Amero was shot in the face, wrist and chest, Hadden-Watts was shot in the neck and rendered a paraplegic, Black was shot through both upper legs. Riach escaped without injury.

While much of the testimony was dedicated to the inner workings of the war between rival drug gangs, there was also a more dismal element offered to those in court.

Sukh Dahk and Manny Hairan were killed in the years that followed the Kelowna shooting and the witness started to do an unsustainable level of drugs.

He testified earlier that he had a Percocet habit that required dozens of pills. He could afford it when his corner of the drug trade was booming, but after his friends were killed that network didn香蕉视频直播檛 seem to sustain his income in the same way. He was relying too heavily on a supply of money he香蕉视频直播檇 saved in those years, and he had to come up with new streams of income.

With only a Grade 6 education, and job experience limited to drug dealing, his career choices seemed limited. He started robbing other dealers at gunpoint and stealing tailgates to sell to a chop shop.

At one point he was arrested, and things got worse.

In Kelowna cells, as he detoxed from the many drugs he was taking, his cellmate offered him something to lessen the pain 香蕉视频直播� heroin from a baggie he snuck in. He pulled it out and they did lines on the prison bench.

From there on he used heroin more frequently and, he said, his drug addiction grew out of control.