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Alleged gang hitman was North Vancouver garbage man

In a plot twist worthy of the Sopranos, a man police allege was a hit man for Metro Vancouver's notorious United Nations gang was working a day job as a garbage collector for the District of North Vancouver at the time one of the killings he has been
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In a plot twist worthy of the Sopranos, a man police allege was a hit man for Metro Vancouver's notorious United Nations gang was working a day job as a garbage collector for the District of North Vancouver at the time one of the killings he has been charged with was carried out. Cory Vallee, 37, was arrested earlier this month in Guadalajara, Mexico after almost four years on the lam.

He faces two first-degree murder charges plus a charge of conspiracy to commit murder connected to the Lower Mainland's gang war.

Vallee was charged in January 2011 with the fatal shootings of Jonathan Barber on May 8, 2008 and Kevin LeClair on Feb. 6, 2009.

Barber, 24, was shot in Burnaby in what is believed to be a case of mistaken identity after he picked up a car belonging to one of the Bacon brothers - ringleaders of the Red Scorpions gang - to install a stereo.

At the time of Barber's killing, Vallee was working as a garbage man for the District of North Vancouver, a job he held from April 2006 to October 2008. LeClair was gunned down in a Langley parking lot.

Vallee had been on Interpol's most wanted list since murder charges were laid. His next court appearance is Sept. 26.