EDITION May 1 Abbotsford gangster Jarrod Bacon and his
former father-in-law Wayne Scott are facing 15 to 21 years in prison after a sentencing hearing last Friday in B.C. Supreme Court. They were found guilty Feb. 3 of conspiring to traffic 100 kilograms of cocaine.
May 3 Abbotsford Police are concerned after male
strangers approached young girls on different occasions and tried to convince them to get inside their vehicles last week.
May 8 Abbotsford gangster Jarrod Bacon was sentenced to 12 years in jail for conspiring to traffic up to 100 kilograms of cocaine worth $3 million back in 2009. Bacon, 29, was also given almost five years credit for the time he has been in jail awaiting trial.
May 10 The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is looking into the possible murder of an 80-year-old man found on his rural Abbotsford property on Saturday.
May 15 Family, friends and coworkers of Baldev
Grewal are reeling after he was killed when he pushed a fellow truck driver out of the path of a runaway car in Calgary on Friday.
May 17 Abbotsford city planners unveiled their
vision for a model university district that will evolve over the next three decades into a walkable, compact, green urban hub.
May 22 Bob Ahuja has a lot of compassion and a
big dream - to ride his bike across Canada for 17 days this fall in the Sears National Kids Cancer Ride and raise $25,000 to help kids fight cancer.
May 24 Former Abbotsford pastor and missionary charged with child sex offences, Patrick Marini, 69, pleaded guilty in Abbotsford provincial court for an incident on Feb. 11 involving a 15-year-old boy.
May 29 Crown counsel has opted to lay criminal
charges against RCMP Const. Jordan Braid, who was involved in a head-on crash that killed Mission father-to-be Steve Genberg on July 12, 2011 near Agassiz.
May 31 An Abbotsford neighbourhood was
all abuzz after a black bear repeatedly visited the Abbotsford Virtual School grounds on Pine Street near downtown Abbotsford.