How Hells Angels and criminal gangs came to control much of the Vancouver docks

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By Gavin van Marle

12/05/2015

For everyone who was thrilled to see freight get top-billing on television worldwide when the second series of the brilliant Baltimore cop drama The Wire concentrated on the city’s container ports, here is a two-part piece of fantastic investigative reporting from Canada on how a lot of the country’s ports have been infiltrated by leading drugs gangs importing vast amounts of cocaine and other nefarious substances. Engrossing.

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