Ken Yaretz was a drug dealer in Kamloops who during a police stop in August 2008 had been found inside of the car of Jayme Russell, the president of the Kamloops chapter of the Independent Soldiers. Yaretz together with his best friend Damien Marks had just moved into a new basement apartment when both men went missing on 17 April 2009. In May 2009, the corpses of Marks and Yaretz were found buried on the house at Knouff Lake owned by Roy Fraser. It was stated by locals that it was "common knowledge" that Fraser was a drug dealer whose remote house had a marijuana grow-opt owned by the Hells Angels. Fraser was charged with murder, but fled while on bail. Brittney Irving of Kelowna was a 24-year old healthcare professional who was addicted to Oxycontin. To pay for her addiction, she was worked as a marijuana dealer for the both the local chapters of the Independent Soldiers and the Hells Angels. On 6 April 2010, she went to meet an Independent Soldier drug dealer, Joelon "Joey" Verma and vanished. Her corpse was discovered by the police on 25 May 2010. During the police investigation of Irving's murder, Verma rammed a gun into the belly of another man, Mike Roberts, and told him: "You have to take the fall for this [Irving murder]...If you don’t I have no choice but to kill you, your wife, your children and your grandchildren. I’m sorry, that’s just how we do business." Verma was charged with her murder. On 17 October 2013, Verma was convicted of Irving's murder and was sentenced to 25 years in prison with no chance of parole. Verma broke down in tears as the guilty verdict was announced in the courtroom.
