Report of imminent gang war false: Kamloops RCMP

Mar 4, 2016 | 2:40 PM

KAMLOOPS — RCMP say they can’t corroborate a local media report that Kamloops is on the verge of a turf war between rival drug-dealing gangs.

Corporal Cheryl Bush was responding to a story printed in Kamloops This Week citing an unnamed justice official who claimed a bloody gang war is imminent.

Bush says investigators don’t have any evidence to support that theory.

“There is nothing arising from our intelligence, our investigations, or our community connections that support the increased threat level indicated in a recent local news article,” Bush told CFJC Today, adding, “while street level drug trade does exist, there is no indication of any escalating risk to the public.”