The Brothers Keepers
They began as one faction of Red Scorpions-aligned traffickers in the Fraser Valley and became, within a year, a gang at war with nearly everyone — including the men they had started out beside. Their founder was dead before the end of 2017, his killers never charged. The gang outlived him anyway, spread to Vancouver Island, Alberta and Ontario, and is still one of the two sides in British Columbia’s gang conflict. This is the full record: where they came from, who they stood with, who they fought, and what the courts have and have not been able to prove.
Before the Brothers Keepers
The gang’s story starts with its founder, and his starts in Abbotsford.
On March 19, 2015, Abbotsford Police took the unusual step of publishing the names and photographs of three men: Sandeep Singh Sidhu, 27; Jimi Singh Sandhu, 25; and Gavinder Singh Grewal, 27. The department said all three were “involved in an ongoing conflict and a criminal lifestyle that includes violence, drugs, and weapons,” and that all three were prohibited from possessing firearms. Grewal’s record, in the department’s words, included a “criminal conviction for extortion and possession of a controlled substance for trafficking purposes.” Sgt. Casey Vinet said efforts were being made to curtail growing tensions between the men, but police were very concerned that violence could occur in public.
The conflict behind that warning was known locally as Townline Hill, after the Abbotsford neighbourhood where it produced a string of shootings. Reporting at the time identified Grewal as a leader on one side of it. Sidhu and Sandhu were later described by Postmedia as connected to the United Nations side; Sandhu was eventually deported to India, and in February 2022 was shot dead in Phuket, Thailand.
In June 2016 Grewal, then 29, was arrested and charged with manslaughter in the July 28, 2010 death of Mandy Johnson, who was shot in the passenger seat of a car in Abbotsford, and with the attempted murder of her boyfriend. A co-accused, Jason Himpfen, was charged with second-degree murder. Grewal never stood trial: he was killed before the case reached a verdict, and in November 2018 Himpfen was acquitted, the court finding there was not enough evidence that he was the shooter.
The Founding
Exactly when the Brothers Keepers began depends on who is asked. CFSEU-BC, the province’s anti-gang agency, says the gang “first emerged within the British Columbia gang landscape in 2017.” Journalism places it earlier: a 2018 Postmedia investigation described men joining “other young gangsters and traffickers to form the Brothers Keepers” before May 2016, and CFSEU itself told reporters in 2019 that the gang began expanding to Vancouver Island in 2016. The defensible answer is that the group formed between 2015 and 2017, and that police date its arrival as a recognised force to 2017.
What is not in dispute is who started it. In the words of a 2018 Postmedia account of the conflict, “Gavinder Grewal, one of the leaders of the RS-aligned traffickers, started his own organization that he called the Brothers Keepers.” He took the name from a line spoken by Wesley Snipes’ character in the 1991 film New Jack City, and had it tattooed across his upper chest in stylized script. Gang officers began seeing the same tattoo on other men in mid-2017, while Grewal was still in pre-trial custody on the manslaughter charge.
The same 2018 account described the Red Scorpions-aligned world Grewal came out of as three factions, each named for its leaders: the Grewals, the Kangs and the Dhaliwals. All three were traditionally at odds with the Abbotsford-based Sandhu–Sidhu group, whose loyalists were connected to the UN.
That is the origin of nearly everything that followed. The Grewals became the Brothers Keepers. The Dhaliwals joined them. The Kangs went the other way.
No reliable source names the gang’s co-founders. CFSEU-BC describes “approximately a dozen core members” but has never published their names, and figures circulating online of hundreds of members and associates have no police source behind them.
The 2018 Postmedia investigation, based on unnamed sources, reported that two young Lower Mainland men were hired in May 2016 to kill a Turkish trafficker in Dubai. One, Harpreet Singh Majhu, was described as having helped form the Brothers Keepers; the other, Orosman Garcia-Arevalo, as an associate “aligned with what would become the breakaway Kang group.” Within weeks of returning, both were dead — Garcia-Arevalo shot and left in an Abbotsford blueberry field on May 11, 2016, Majhu’s remains found in a burnt-out vehicle in Agassiz on June 10. The RCMP declined to comment. None of it has been tested in court, and it is included here as journalism only.
The Kang Split
The Kangs and the Brothers Keepers were, at first, on the same side. Postmedia’s crime reporting describes them as having once been aligned, and IHIT later said that at the time of the October 2017 shootings, “both Nguyen and the Kang brothers were associates of the Brothers Keepers gang.” The break came in the autumn of 2017. Vancouver police Supt. Mike Porteous, speaking on the record, put it plainly: “Gavin Grewal was fighting with everybody. He had specifically split off from the Kang group internally and that had caused a lot of violence.”
Shortly before 9 p.m., gunmen opened fire in the 11300-block of Alpen Place. Randeep “Randy” Kang, 27, was killed. His brother Gary Kang and a third man, Camilo Alonso, were wounded. A burning SUV was found nearby. IHIT’s Cpl. Frank Jang called it “a brazen shooting in a residential neighbourhood and a blatant disregard for the safety of the public.”
The case was eventually solved, and it is the clearest court finding linking the Brothers Keepers to a killing. See The T-Sav Verdict, below.
After Alpen Place, the Kangs aligned openly with the Red Scorpions — police would later describe the Kang/Latimer group as “a family criminal operation” with Red Scorpion ties — and the two sides spent the following years, in Postmedia’s phrase, “locked in a violent conflict.”
Fern Street
Grewal had been released on strict bail conditions on September 27, 2017 and moved into a unit on the 25th floor of a high-rise in North Vancouver’s Seylynn Village. On the evening of Friday, December 22, just before 8 p.m., a family member found him dead inside the apartment in the 1500-block of Fern Street. He was 30. Neighbours described a destroyed door and blood in the hallway.
IHIT’s Cpl. Jang said the killing was “targeted and linked to other gang violence in the Lower Mainland,” and that investigators were working with CFSEU “to exactly find out what his current affiliations were.” Postmedia reported it as stemming from an internal Brothers Keepers conflict.
In June 2018 IHIT released surveillance images of two men linked to a black Nissan Titan and a dark Lexus RX350 and appealed for help identifying them. “Even if they have a slight inkling as to who they are, we still want to talk to these people,” Jang said.
Nobody has ever been charged with killing Gavin Grewal.
The gang did not collapse. CFSEU’s own description of its structure explains why: not a pyramid but a set of cells, a dozen core members each with their own operations. Compare the Independent Soldiers, a gang with no way to replace its founders, which effectively ended when they died.
2018: The Year After
The first full year without its founder was among the bloodiest in the gang’s history, and the pattern it set — killings on both sides, nobody charged — held for years.
July 25, 2018. Matthew Alexander Navas-Rivas, 28, was shot dead while walking dogs near Cambridge and Nanaimo streets in East Vancouver. Postmedia described him as a Brothers Keepers member who had been on a gang boat cruise the day before. Vancouver police called it targeted.
June 4, 2018. Two Surrey teenagers, Jaskarn “Jason” Jhutty, 16, and Jaskaran “Jesse” Bhangal, 17, were found shot dead on a rural road in Campbell Heights. Neither had a criminal record. By 2019 police said the killings were targeted and linked to the regional gang conflict. The case remains unsolved. It produced its own prosecution in reverse: a Red Scorpion–Kang associate who knew the boys conspired with others, including two men flown in from Ottawa, to retaliate against suspects “believed to be connected to the Brothers Keepers gang.” One of them, Pashminder Boparai, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to assault an unknown person with a firearm and was sentenced to eight years before credit. Postmedia later reported that police regarded Brothers Keepers member Naseem Mohammed as a suspect in the teens’ deaths; he was never charged.
October 18, 2018. Mandeep Grewal, Gavin’s brother, was shot dead outside a bank at Clearbrook Road and South Fraser Way in Abbotsford. IHIT said he was targeted and that the killing was linked to the gang conflict; police sources told reporters he was not himself involved in gangs.
November 12, 2018. Jagvir Malhi, 19, a university student, was shot dead in Abbotsford. Police said he was an innocent victim, not the intended target.
December 21, 2018. Harb Dhaliwal was seriously wounded in a shooting at Richmond’s Lansdowne Mall. The man with him, Bikramjit Khakh, was unhurt — until February 1, 2019, when he was shot dead in Newton. Postmedia described Khakh as having recently aligned with the Brothers Keepers. IHIT’s Jang, linking the killing to the conflict, noted that “gang affiliations, alliances can change quickly.”
2019: Three Columns
By 2019 investigators and reporters were describing the Lower Mainland landscape as three columns: the Wolfpack — the Hells Angels, Red Scorpions and Independent Soldiers — on one side; the remnants of the Duhre and United Nations groups on another; and the Brothers Keepers, as one 2019 account put it, “sort of sandwiched” between them and in conflict with the Wolfpack. CFSEU Staff Sgt. Lindsey Houghton later summarised it the same way: “starting in about 2017, inserted into the middle of all this was the Brothers Keepers and their groups.”
The gang was also expanding. In June 2019 CFSEU warned that the Brothers Keepers were running drug lines on Vancouver Island. In August 2019 the RCMP said a pill-press laboratory dismantled in South Surrey was “connected to the Brothers Keepers crime group.” And in December 2019 IHIT charged a 21-year-old Surrey man, Tyrel Nguyen, with first-degree murder in the killings of Randy Kang and Jagvir Malhi.
The Task Force
CFSEU-BC formed a dedicated Brothers Keepers Task Force in 2018. When it went public on July 21, 2020, it described a reach unusual for a single-gang operation: RCMP detachments and municipal departments in 21 jurisdictions, working alongside Correctional Service Canada, B.C. Corrections, the B.C. Sheriffs Service, IHIT and the Canada Border Services Agency.
That the Brothers Keepers “were immediately in direct conflict with rival gangs such as the Red Scorpions, the Wolfpack, the Hells Angels, the United Nations, and numerous other individuals and groups.”
That the gang was made up of “approximately a dozen core members” with a network of 194 people, spreading to “all corners of British Columbia” and expanding into Alberta and Ontario.
That the task force had seized more than 30 kilograms of suspected fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine, stopped the gang’s intended expansion into the Nanaimo area, and coincided with a 38.5 per cent decrease in combined gang-related homicides and attempted homicides between January 2017 and December 2019.
Supt. Paul Dadwal and Assistant Commissioner Michael LeSage fronted the announcement.
Note what that list of rivals includes: the Wolfpack and the Hells Angels. In 2020, police counted them as enemies of the Brothers Keepers. Within three years police would be describing them as allies. See Associations, below.
2021: The Worst Year
January 2021. Gary Kang — wounded at Alpen Place, later a Red Scorpion and described by Postmedia as a former Brothers Keeper — was shot dead inside his parents’ South Surrey home. He was 24. The following day Anees Mohammed, described as a key Wolfpack figure, was killed, likely in retaliation according to reporting. On January 9 Dilraj Johal, once close to a Brothers Keepers leader but aligned with the UN when he died, was shot dead.
At about 8:30 p.m. Harpreet “Harb” Singh Dhaliwal, 31, of Abbotsford, was shot outside Cardero’s restaurant near Coal Harbour Quay and Cardero Street in downtown Vancouver, in a crowded public space. His brothers Barinder and Meninder were reported to have been nearby. VPD Sgt. Steve Addison said Dhaliwal was the intended target.
Within a week Vancouver police charged Francois Joseph Gauthier with first-degree murder. Court documents later described a carefully planned execution — an Airbnb, tracking devices, a silicone mask — and said Dhaliwal’s brother and a companion chased and stabbed Gauthier after the shooting. Gauthier pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and on June 29, 2022 was sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole eligibility for 20 years. In sentencing, Justice Heather Holmes described Dhaliwal as “believed to be involved in the criminal gang lifestyle, more specifically with the Brothers Keepers gang.” Who hired Gauthier has never been publicly established.
Three days later, on April 20, long-time UN gangster Todd Gouwenberg was shot dead at a Langley sports complex. Police said they were investigating the possibility that it was retaliation for Harb Dhaliwal’s killing. On May 9, UN member Karman Grewal — no relation to the founder — was shot dead at Vancouver International Airport; no source has established who was responsible. Four days after that, Jaskeert Kalkat was killed outside a Burnaby restaurant.
On May 17, 2021 Vancouver police took the rare step of naming the six men they considered most likely to be targeted or involved in gang violence. Two were Barinder Dhaliwal and Meninder Dhaliwal. Another was Damion Ryan, the Hells Angel. The next day CFSEU, Vancouver police and the RCMP jointly named eleven men, including both Dhaliwals again. Police attached no gang names; The Province identified the Dhaliwals as Brothers Keepers.
A second eleven-man warning in August 2022 again included Barinder Dhaliwal. Both lists deliberately mixed men from opposing sides.
November 3, 2021. After a three-year investigation and seven search warrants, the BK Task Force secured charges against six people. See The Courts, below.
2022: Whistler
February 8, 2022. Juvraj Jabal, 24, described by Postmedia as a Brothers Keepers gangster, was shot dead in Surrey; his girlfriend was wounded and survived. Yusuf Kontos, 26, of Ontario was charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder; in September 2025 he pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 12 years, less credit.
Just after noon, in the middle of a resort town in high summer, Meninder Dhaliwal was shot dead near the Sundial Hotel. Satindera Gill, 36, was killed with him; reporting says Gill had no gang ties. IHIT Sgt. Timothy Pierotti called it a targeted shooting “in relation to the ongoing Lower Mainland gang conflict.”
A burning vehicle was found in Whistler. Two Surrey men were arrested near Squamish after a highway checkpoint and charged with first-degree murder: Gursimran Sahota and Tanvir Khakh. No charges have been reported against three other people arrested that day.
One detail ties the case back to the airport. In 2019 Sahota had been jointly charged with three robberies alongside Karman Grewal, the UN member killed at YVR fourteen months before Whistler. No court has found that Meninder’s killing was revenge for Grewal’s, and this file does not suggest it was.
2023: A Verdict and an Edmonton Gas Station
Tyrel Nguyen, also known as Tyrel Quesnelle, a Surrey rapper who performed as T-Sav, was convicted by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Miriam Gropper of two counts of first-degree murder — Randy Kang at Alpen Place in October 2017, and Jagvir Malhi in Abbotsford in November 2018 — and two counts of attempted murder, for Gary Kang and Camilo Alonso. The judge called one of his music videos “essentially a thinly-veiled confession.”
The Crown argued Nguyen was a contract killer for the Brothers Keepers in their conflict with the Red Scorpions; he had a Brothers Keepers tattoo on his chest. On January 11, 2024 he was sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole eligibility for 25 years.
Postmedia had earlier reported that in August 2019 Nguyen attended a Hells Angels funeral alongside Harb and Barinder Dhaliwal.
November 9, 2023. In Edmonton, Harpreet Uppal, 41, was shot dead at a gas station along with his 11-year-old son. Edmonton police said the boy was not caught in crossfire: the shooters killed him intentionally once they realised he was there. Police named no gang at the time. In June 2025 an agreed statement of facts in a related extortion case stated that Uppal was a member of the Brothers Keepers. No one has been charged in the killings.
August 2023. The gang task force told Global News that the conflict had evolved into “three major pillars” — “the Wolfpack and Brothers Keepers, the United Nations, and the Red Scorpions.” Three years after CFSEU listed the Wolfpack as a Brothers Keepers rival, police were naming them together.
2024: Project High Table, Project Gaslight, and Langley
February 21, 2024. Abbotsford police arrested three men in an investigation called Project High Table: Anmol Sandhu and Navpreet Dhaliwal, each charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit murder plus drug and firearms offences, and Gavinder Siekham, charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit murder. Two days later the RCMP and IHIT announced a parallel case against eight people, including a Delta man charged with conspiracy to commit murder in a 2023 Burnaby parkade killing. The RCMP named no gang. The Vancouver Sun reported that some of the RCMP accused had links to the UN, while the three Abbotsford accused had connections to the Brothers Keepers. When Sandhu and Dhaliwal were released on bail with house arrest that summer, Abbotsford police issued a public warning describing both as connected to the B.C. gang conflict. Those charges are untested; no trial outcome has been reported.
March 2024. On March 26, Amandeep Singh Kang — the task force’s principal target, no relation to the Kang group — was shot in the arm in Cloverdale, forcing his sentencing hearing to be put over. On March 30, a failed attempt was made on another reported Brothers Keepers member, Jagraj Atwal, near Robson and Richards streets in downtown Vancouver. Postmedia’s sources described the gang’s biggest rivals at that point as the UN and parts of the BIBO/Kang and Latimer group, which they said had recently realigned with the Wolfpack.
From late 2023, Edmonton police investigated a wave of extortion targeting South Asian home builders and business owners, backed by arson and gunfire. The alleged organizer, Maninder Singh Dhaliwal, 35 — a different man from the late Meninder — was described by police as “affiliated with the Brothers Keeper organized crime group, also known as the Dhaliwal crime group.” Court documents say he left Canada for India in July 2023 and is believed to have largely directed the extortions from Dubai. He was arrested in the United Arab Emirates in late 2024; Edmonton police have applied for his extradition, though Canada has no extradition treaty with the UAE.
The prosecutions have produced guilty pleas: Divnoor Singh Asht, four and a half years for arson, extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion; Gurkaran Singh, seven years for arson, extortion and money laundering; Parminder Singh, seven and a half years. It was in Asht’s agreed statement of facts that Harpreet Uppal was identified as a Brothers Keepers member and a close associate of Maninder Dhaliwal; the same document said there was no evidence Asht himself was a member. One account in the Edmonton Journal described the extortion calls as impersonating the Brothers Keepers, which conflicts with the court documents; this file follows the court documents.
A shooting in Langley left Barinder “Shrek” Dhaliwal, the surviving Dhaliwal brother, wounded. The man killed was Johnathan Hebrada-Walters, 38, of Edmonton. On June 4, 2025 the RCMP announced that Dhaliwal had been charged with four firearms offences arising from the shooting — possessing a loaded firearm, a firearm in a vehicle, unauthorized possession, and possession while prohibited — and said the incident was linked to the B.C. gang conflict. He was not charged with murder. Kim Bolan of the Vancouver Sun reported that this was likely because he allegedly shot the hitman who came for him. Those charges are untested and their outcome has not been reported.
2025: The Numbers Fall
In September 2025 CFSEU-BC Chief Officer Manny Mann told the Vancouver Sun that gang-related homicides had fallen from 46 in 2023 to 16 in 2024, with six gang-nexus homicides through June 2025 — the lowest in nine years. He attributed the drop to members being in custody or having left the country, and said there continued to be two main sides: “one being the Wolfpack gang and aligned groups such as the Brothers Keepers, and the other the United Nations gang and its allies.” B.C.’s major groups, he said, are “plugged into international networks,” with some leaders abroad running operations through middle management — a pattern documented in this site’s Underworld in Exile file.
Naseem Mohammed
No figure illustrates the distance between what police believe and what they can prove better than Naseem Ali Mohammed, called “Lil Man.”
Born in Somalia in 1998 and raised in Surrey, he was recruited off the Newton drug lines around 2015 by Grewal himself, according to Postmedia, and rapped under the names Certi2x and Wlatt. Police sources told the Vancouver Sun he was suspected in between eight and twelve murders in British Columbia and Ontario, including the 2018 Campbell Heights killings of Jhutty and Bhangal, the January 2020 killing of Julian Johnson, the December 2020 killing of 14-year-old Tequel Willis, and the January 2021 killing of Gary Kang. A U.S. federal affidavit called him “the primary suspect in multiple gang-related homicides spanning two provinces,” and described him as a high-ranking Brothers Keepers member. His archrival was reported to be Amarpreet “Chucky” Samra, who joined the UN.
What he was convicted of was elsewhere. Arrested in West Vancouver in January 2020 on Ontario charges, he fled a curfew check that March and crossed into the United States, where he was arrested in Seattle in November 2021. He pleaded guilty in Washington state to armed robbery, was sentenced to 41 months, and was released in 2024. A Saskatoon man later convicted of second-degree murder had fled to the U.S. with him. Mohammed spent much of 2025 abroad, including in Dubai, and returned from the Middle East in November.
2026: Nine Days in January
January 9, 2026. Navpreet Dhaliwal, 28 — the Project High Table accused, on bail since the summer of 2024 — was shot dead at about 12:38 p.m. in the 3200-block of Siskin Drive, Abbotsford. IHIT called it targeted and brazen and linked it to the B.C. gang conflict. The Vancouver Sun identified him as a Brothers Keepers gangster; police named no gang.
Firefighters called to a burning house in the 12700-block of 56 Avenue shortly after 7 a.m. found Naseem Mohammed inside, shot in the head. He was 27. IHIT’s Cpl. Sukhi Dhesi said investigators believed it was targeted, with “a potential nexus to organized crime.” A vehicle found burning in South Surrey the night before is believed to be connected. By June 2026 IHIT said at least four people were believed to be involved. No arrests have been reported in either killing.
A third man shot dead in Surrey the following day, Baljinder “Binder” Singh Garcha, 46, is named here only to be set apart: investigators found no connection between him and the gang conflict. Retired VPD Supt. Mike Porteous, who had first described Grewal’s split from the Kangs nine years earlier, told the Vancouver Sun that month that it might be dangerous to call the conflict over — “That peak is over.”
After a four-week trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, a jury returned its verdicts in the Whistler killings in the last week of September 2026; IHIT announced the result on September 29.
Gursimran Sahota, 29 — guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Meninder Dhaliwal, and guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Satindera Gill. The jury recommended he serve 20 years before parole eligibility on the second-degree count.
Tanvir Khakh, 25 — guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Meninder Dhaliwal. The judge directed an acquittal on the count relating to Gill.
First-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no parole eligibility for 25 years. Sentencing had not taken place at the time of writing.
Associations
The Brothers Keepers’ alliances have moved more than almost any other gang’s in the province, and the record should be read in sequence rather than as a single snapshot.
2015–2017 — origin. One of three Red Scorpions-aligned factions (Grewals, Kangs, Dhaliwals), opposed to the Abbotsford Sandhu–Sidhu group and its UN connections. [Journalism]
2017 — the split. Breaks with the Kang group, which aligns with the Red Scorpions. [Police and journalism]
2019 — third column. Described as standing between the Wolfpack and the Duhre/UN remnants, and in conflict with the Wolfpack. [Journalism; police]
2020 — at war with almost everyone. CFSEU-BC lists the Red Scorpions, the Wolfpack, the Hells Angels and the United Nations as rivals. [Police]
2021 — shift. The Vancouver Sun describes the gang as “Hells Angels-aligned,” and notes the Dhaliwals were once connected to the Bacon Brothers. [Journalism]
2023 — one pillar with the Wolfpack. “The Wolfpack and Brothers Keepers” named together as one of three pillars. [Police]
2025 — two sides. “The Wolfpack gang and aligned groups such as the Brothers Keepers” against “the United Nations gang and its allies.” [Police]
Consistent rivals: the United Nations gang, in every description from 2017 to 2025, and the Kang group and its Red Scorpion and BIBO/Latimer associates. Allies, by 2023: the Wolfpack, and through it the Hells Angels. Not established: any reliable link to the Independent Soldiers; any stated police link to the Bishnoi gang; claims online of alliances with Ontario crews or Latin American cartels.
Geography: the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley at its core; Vancouver Island and Kamloops drug lines by 2019–2021; Edmonton, through Uppal and Project Gaslight; Ontario, per CFSEU, without published incidents; and India, Dubai and the United States through individual members.
Key Figures
Gavinder “Gavin” Singh Grewal — Founder. Killed December 22, 2017, age 30. Unsolved.
Harpreet “Harb” Singh Dhaliwal — Killed April 17, 2021, age 31. Killer pleaded guilty to second-degree murder; a sentencing judge described Harb as believed involved with the gang.
Meninder Dhaliwal — Named in 2021 police warnings. Killed July 24, 2022 in Whistler. Two men convicted in September 2026.
Barinder “Shrek” Dhaliwal — The surviving brother. Former Bacon associate; one-year sentence in 2018 for being in a vehicle with a restricted firearm while under a firearms ban. Named in 2021 and 2022 police warnings. Wounded in Langley, September 2024; charged June 2025 with four firearms offences arising from it. Untested; outcome unreported.
Amandeep Singh Kang — Described by a sentencing judge as “clearly a leader” of a subset of the gang. Eleven years, April 2024.
Naseem Ali Mohammed — Suspected by police in eight to twelve killings; never charged in any. Killed January 12, 2026, age 27.
Navpreet Dhaliwal — Charged in 2024 with conspiracy to commit murder (untested). Killed January 9, 2026, age 28.
Tyrel Nguyen (“T-Sav”) — Convicted of two first-degree murders and two attempted murders; the Crown called him a Brothers Keepers contract killer. Life, 25 years.
Maninder Singh Dhaliwal — Alleged organizer of Edmonton’s Project Gaslight extortions; described by police as affiliated with the gang. Held in the UAE. Untested.
Harpreet Uppal — Identified as a member in an agreed statement of facts. Killed with his son in Edmonton, November 2023. Unsolved.
The Courts
Set out together, the court record shows how little of this conflict has been resolved by adjudication — and how much of what has been resolved concerns people killed rather than people killing.
Amandeep Singh Kang, 29, of Vancouver — charged with instructing a person to traffic a controlled substance for a criminal organization, trafficking for the benefit of a criminal organization, conspiracy to traffic, trafficking, and three counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking. Pleaded guilty October 30, 2023 to trafficking for the benefit of a criminal organization and conspiracy to traffic fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine. Sentenced April 5, 2024 by Justice Paul Riley to 11 years. “The drugs in issue were the worst, most dangerous, and addictive illegal drugs that plague our society,” the judge said.
Andrew Miguel Best, 21 — pleaded guilty August 18, 2022 to drug trafficking and possession for the purpose of trafficking; five years.
Moshmem Khanun Khan, 45 — pleaded guilty December 21, 2022 to drug trafficking; conditional sentence order.
Tanisha Bhatti, 25 — charged with conspiracy to traffic; charges stayed April 5, 2024.
Dylan Robert Ferris, 22, and Jannat Bibi Nadeem, 21 — final outcomes not reported.
Seized in the investigation: more than 11 kilograms of cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl, a loaded Smith & Wesson .40-calibre pistol, laboratory equipment, precursor chemicals and more than $50,000.
A separate CFSEU investigation into a Fraser Valley drug line tied to the gang, opened in 2018, charged seven people. Charges against Sahel Sandhu and Gurjap Singh Bhullar were stayed because the trial date fell outside the 18-month ceiling set by the Supreme Court of Canada in Jordan; the judge found the Crown had not been proactive. No evidence was weighed.
Randy Kang and Jagvir Malhi (2017, 2018) — Tyrel Nguyen, two counts of first-degree murder, plus two counts of attempted murder. Life, 25 years.
Harb Dhaliwal (2021) — Francois Joseph Gauthier, second-degree murder. Life, 20 years.
Juvraj Jabal (2022) — Yusuf Kontos, manslaughter. Twelve years less credit.
Meninder Dhaliwal and Satindera Gill (2022) — Gursimran Sahota, first-degree and second-degree murder; Tanvir Khakh, first-degree murder. Sentencing pending.
Gavin Grewal (2017). Matthew Navas-Rivas (2018). Jason Jhutty and Jesse Bhangal (2018). Mandeep Grewal (2018). Bikramjit Khakh (2019). Gary Kang (2021). Harpreet Uppal and his son (2023). Navpreet Dhaliwal (2026). Naseem Mohammed (2026). No one has been publicly charged in any of them.
Where the Gang Stands
Nine years after police say it emerged, the Brothers Keepers have not been dismantled and have not been declared a criminal organization by any Canadian court — though one leader, Amandeep Kang, pleaded guilty to trafficking for the benefit of one. Police now place them on the Wolfpack side of a two-sided conflict that is quieter than at any point since 2016. Its best-known figures have been thinned almost entirely by killing: the founder, two of the three Dhaliwal brothers, the man police suspected as its hitman, and a High Table accused out on bail. The man police say ran their Edmonton extortions is in a Gulf state Canada cannot extradite from.
What remains is a cell structure built to survive exactly this, and a court record in which the gang’s dead far outnumber its convicted.
Standing of This File
Verified — court findings | Nguyen’s first-degree murder convictions for Randy Kang and Jagvir Malhi; Gauthier’s second-degree murder plea for Harb Dhaliwal; Kontos’s manslaughter plea for Juvraj Jabal; the September 2026 Whistler verdicts; Amandeep Kang’s plea and 11-year sentence; Best’s and Khan’s pleas; the Bhatti stay; the Jordan stays; the Project Gaslight pleas and the agreed statement of facts identifying Uppal as a member.
Verified — police statements | CFSEU-BC’s 2020 description of the gang, its size and its rivals; the 2015, 2021, 2022 and 2024 public warnings; the 2019 RCMP link to the South Surrey pill lab; the 2023 and 2025 police descriptions of the gang as aligned with the Wolfpack; Edmonton police’s description of Maninder Singh Dhaliwal as affiliated with the gang; the dates and circumstances of each killing listed.
Journalism, not adjudicated | The three-faction origin account; the name and tattoo; the 2016 Dubai episode; the membership labels applied to Navas-Rivas, Khakh, Jabal, Navpreet Dhaliwal, Atwal and the Dhaliwal brothers; the Hells Angels funeral; Naseem Mohammed’s suspected role in eight to twelve killings.
Not established | The founding year (2015, 2016 or 2017); the co-founders’ identities; who killed Gavin Grewal; who hired Gauthier; any responsibility for the YVR killing; any court finding that the gang is a criminal organization; any outcome in the Project High Table charges or Barinder Dhaliwal’s firearms charges.
Update Trigger | Sentencing of Sahota and Khakh; any charge in the Grewal, Uppal, Navpreet Dhaliwal or Mohammed killings; the outcome of Barinder Dhaliwal’s firearms case; Project High Table trial dates; Maninder Singh Dhaliwal’s return from the UAE; any new CFSEU-BC file naming the gang.
- CFSEU-BC — Brothers Keepers Task Force releases of July 21, 2020; November 4, 2021; November 1, 2023
- RCMP / IHIT — statements of Cpl. Frank Jang (2017–2019), Sgt. Timothy Pierotti (2022), Cpl. Sukhi Dhesi (2026); IHIT release on the Navpreet Dhaliwal homicide (Jan. 9, 2026); RCMP release on charges in the September 2024 Langley shooting (June 2025); RCMP Federal Policing and IHIT release (Feb. 23, 2024)
- Abbotsford Police Department — public safety notification (Mar. 19, 2015); Project High Table arrests (Feb. 2024); public notification on two gang-conflict members (Aug. 1, 2024)
- Vancouver Police Department — charges in the Coal Harbour homicide (Apr. 24, 2021); high-risk list (May 17, 2021)
- Edmonton Police Service — Project Gaslight releases (2024–2025)
- The Canadian Press — Whistler convictions (Sept. 2026)
- Bolan, Kim — Vancouver Sun / The Province (Postmedia) — reporting on the Dhaliwals (2021), Gary Kang (2021), the Feb. 2024 arrests, Amandeep Kang’s sentencing (Apr. 2024), the September 2025 CFSEU assessment, Naseem Mohammed (Jan. and June 2026), the January 2026 killings, and the Whistler verdict
- Postmedia / National Post — investigation into the 2016 Dubai killings (Aug. 2018); account of the early conflict and the three factions (2018)
- CBC News — Nguyen conviction and sentencing (Jason Proctor); Edmonton Uppal killings (Nov. 2023) and Project Gaslight agreed statement of facts (June 2025); Whistler (2022, 2026)
- Global News — Grewal homicide and suspect appeal (2017–2018); Surrey pill lab (Aug. 2019); 2021 charges; gang “pillars” (Aug. 2023); Project Gaslight (2025)
- CTV News — Gauthier court documents; Amandeep Kang sentencing; Vancouver Island expansion (2019)
- Indo-Canadian Voice — reporting on the three columns (2019), Harb Dhaliwal, the Jhutty–Bhangal revenge plot, Nguyen’s sentencing, and the Whistler convictions
- Glacier Media (Vancouver Is Awesome, Castanet, Pique, Squamish Chief, Prince George Citizen) — guilty pleas, sentencing delays, the Jordan stays, and the Nguyen sentence
- Black Press (Abbotsford News, Langley Advance Times, Surrey Now-Leader, North Delta Reporter, The Progress) — Barinder Dhaliwal’s 2018 sentencing, Mandeep Grewal, Himpfen acquittal, January 2026 homicides
- Times Colonist — syndicated Postmedia reporting on the early conflict, Gary Kang, and the 2024 downtown shooting
- Gangland Files — Wolfpack Alliance, Red Scorpions, Hells Angels Canada, Damion Ryan, Bacon Brothers, Independent Soldiers and Underworld in Exile files (internal cross-referencing)