Pubdate: Sat, 25 Dec 2004
Source: Maple Ridge News (CN BC)
Copyright: 2004 Maple Ridge News
Contact:  http://www.mapleridgenews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1328
Author: Janis Cleugh
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)

LOCAL MAN CHARGED IN GROW-RIP KILLING

Two suspects who allegedly killed a Surrey man during an apparent marijuana 
grow operation "rip" in Coquitlam last year made their first court 
appearance Thursday after being arrested this week.

Manh Tuan Doan, 22, of Maple Ridge, and Huy Quoc Do, 49, of Vancouver, are 
each charged with the manslaughter and kidnapping of Tuong (Tommy) Buu Vo 
on Nov. 18, 2003.

Vo's body was found by an area resident in a house in the 1500-block of 
Manzanita Court on Westwood Plateau, Coquitlam. Two nearby homes, on 
Erskine Street and Salal Crescent, also were being investigated at the time 
of the homicide.

"There were indications of grow-ops in a couple of those locations and 
evidence leads us to believe that this was, in fact, the result of a 
grow-operation rip-off that went wrong," said Coquitlam RCMP Cpl. Jane 
Baptista during a news conference in August to appeal for the public's 
help. Tuesday, Baptista said killing "was most likely not a random thing," 
she said, adding Vo was known to police.

His cause of death has not being released, however, it may have been 
connected to organized crime, according to Coquitlam RCMP. The arrests of 
Doan and Do come after a 13-month long investigation by the RCMP's 
Integrated Homicide Investigative Team and the Coquitlam RCMP's Major Crime 
Unit.
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