James Clayton Riach,Barry Gene Espadilla were arrested while police found eight firearms, 350 grams of cocaine, drug packaging paraphernalia

Two young Vancouver gangsters are facing weapons and drug charges after police raided their Yaletown apartment and found a cache of illegal guns, including one with a silencer. As more than 500 gang police specialists gathered in Vancouver last week for the 2008 Western Canada Gang Conference, investigators from the B.C. Integrated Gang Task Force, RCMP E Division Criminal Intelligence Section, National Weapons Enforcement Support Team and the Vancouver Police Department Emergency Response Team, executed a high-risk search warrant at the home in the 1200-block of Homer Street. Two residents of the suite, James Clayton Riach, 24 and Barry Gene Espadilla, 23, were arrested while police found eight firearms, 350 grams of cocaine, drug packaging paraphernalia and $22,000.00 in cash. Sgt. Shinder Kirk, gang task force spokesman, said the two men “are known to be well entrenched in the gang lifestyle, and are no strangers to police or the criminal justice system.”
Both have been detained in custody.

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