B.C. drug kingpin marked for death
 

In the crime business, silence is golden.

You talk to the cops, you become a marked man, especially when tens of millions of dollars are at stake. Colin Martin of Malakwa B.C., a self-confessed drug kingpin knew the risk he was taking when he offered to help American Drug Enforcement Agents bust some major cross-border smuggling operations that were moving marijuana, ecstasy and cocaine, provided they let him continue to do business unimpeded for 10 years, U.S. court papers show.

He claimed to have the “ability to control 70 percent of the work that comes out of B.C. and what comes into B.C.,” explaining that he “had a long history of credibility” in the drug business, which he had been in “for most of my adult life,” the Grand Jury indictment against allged drug smugglers state.

Martin offered to identify other B.C. drug lords and direct law enforcement agencies to drug loads as long as they “only arrested other people.”

What Martin did not anticipate was that his offer to help in the war on drugs would be made public in the court documents filed in Seattle three days before Christmas.

Three days after Christmas, Mounties knocked on his door to tell him that there was a contract out on his life.

“We warned him on Dec 28 and are monitoring the situation,” confirmed RCMP spokesman Sgt. Tim Shields, adding publically identifying informants was “absolute insanity”.

“We felt a duty to inform him,” said Shields, who declined further comment when asked if Martin had approached the RCMP to offer his services, before making his pitch to the Americans.

There are many in B.C.’s six-billion-dollar drug trade that moves marijuana and ecstasy south in exchange for cash, cocaine and guns, who would like to silence Martin.

They include members of the Hells Angels, the United Nations Gang and the Independent Soldiers, all of whom have used Martin’s helicopter services to move their contraband.

Their high-grade “Sugar Shack” marijuana went to the U.S. for about $2,500 to $3,000 Cdn. a pound, while the cocaine came back to Canada at about US $14,000 per kilo.

Machine guns, grenades and even rocket launchers were sometimes part of the exchange.

How long Martin can dodge the hitmen who want him dead is anyone’s guess.

A murder contract like this is worth anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000.

Generally, the hit team will involve about five people — the shooter, the back-up shooter, the driver, the spotter and the body-disposal guy.

That was some of the information the Americans gave the Mounties, after they publically named Martin as a wannabe informant and learned from their surveillance that their mistake was to end in murder.

The hit team, according to U.S. sources, was already on its way to Malakwa, B.C. when police presence likely warned them off.

Martin has not only talked about his operations to the cops.

He was featured in a CBC documentary last November on marijuana smuggling.

According to U.S. court documents, Martin is named alongside Sean William Doak, James Gregory Cameron and Adam Christian Serrano, all of whom are in B.C.

The Americans allege that this crime syndicate which was busted in “Operation Blade Runner” in February 2009 in a cross-border operation in Washington State and B.C., resulted in the seizure of two helicopters, 83 kilograms of cocaine, 340 kilograms of marijuana, and 240,000 ecstasy tablets, valued between $10 million and $15 million, plus a significant amount of cash, guns, and other equipment.

Among the helicopter pilots linked to Martin’s operations were Jeremy Snow, 29, who is serving a four-year sentence in the U.S. after he touched down in a Northern Idaho forest with 80 kgs of marijuana and Sam Lindsay-Brown, 24, who hanged himself in the Spokane County Jail after his arrest last February.

The Americans say they will try to extradite Martin. Martin says he plans to fight the extradition.

Given his public label as an “informant”, a U.S. jail cell may be the safest place for him to be for the next little while.

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Oh shit this will turn out to be like Smoking Aces, assassins killing each other for the kill
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That is pretty intense. So hollywood-like haha

Well he won't do that again. Can't say I really care either way, get killed, live in hiding his whole life either way he's fucked.

oh shit! that's scary

Malakwa B.C?

wtf sounds like a small ass town

what a snitch

rofl if he was that stupid to offer up info and ppl and not think it would get out, i doubt he was any sort of "kingpin" more like a farmer who got lucky? (bad choice of words) to be a part of something that was going to make him rich

BC guys all fucking rat on eachother

look at the bacon bros and all those guys involved in the surrey 6 murders, they all have reduced sentaces because they are obviously just spilling everything once they are inside
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Haha, that is fucking stupid. The cops totally played him, and now is just using him as bait to lure out other drug lords. I guess good move by them.

OK, I have the popcorn salted and the lazy-boy is reclined. Let the games begin!!! This will be like watching a season of the real Sopranos. I love it when karma kicks in.

got played :P

sucks for him. hes gonna have to have some major plastic surgery done and move to some little tiny island where no one can find him otherwise hes done sooner or later theyll get to him

epic

1 gone, 10 million others to replace him. Life goes on.

It's only a matter of time before Hollywood makes a movie about our massive drug industry.

Childen playing a grown man's game
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wow, he's fucked haha

r u saying you are a grown man? :D

it is, its in shuswap

Rookie of the year.

our drug industry is boring compared to other cities, plus there's dozens of movies on gang/drugs, no one would want to see a bunch of white boys and asians, it'd be recast with whoever's selling the most rap albums

anyways, pretty sure most people would snitch than do much time when the pigs offer something too good to turn down

I would be pissed off if I was a cop in charge of protecting this guy now. If they want this guy dead they wont have any problems paying a little extra and taking out any cops that happen to get in the way. At this point the whole disposing of the body part is sorta useless. If he goes missing they will know he is dead. I guess the only advantage is if they cant find the body there really isnt any evidence.

Generally, the hit team will involve about five people — the shooter, the back-up shooter, the driver, the spotter and the body-disposal guy.


Why have 5 people? Why not just get one really good sniper to wait for him and pick him off from 1 km away?

Oh wait, when you hold your gun sideways gangsta style, you can't hit shit. That's why you need a backup shooter and need to be within 10ft to make sure you get him.

Heh. What I meant was that guys who roll over on each other are self-made "kingpins" with no idea on how they should be acting when they get tagged. They roll over on each other as soon as anything starts to get difficult.

People who have respect for their scumbag criminal business will respect the nature of "the game" and take their hit with a stiff upper lip.