Accused B.C. killer charged in jail stabbing
A B.C. gangster charged with killing an Okanagan woman three years ago is now accused of stabbing a fellow prisoner at Ontario's Millhaven Institution.
Ekene Anigbo, also known by his rapper name Lolo Lanski, was charged last week with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and carrying a concealed weapon.
The charges came after another prisoner “suffered serious injuries when he was assaulted with an edged weapon. The victim was transported to hospital for treatment and is recovering,” Bill Dickson, of the Ontario Provincial Police, said in a news release.
The attack happened on April 15 at about 11 p.m., Dickson said, prompting the Correctional Service of Canada to contact the OPPled joint penitentiary squad. Charges were laid April 18. Anigbo is serving a 33-month sentence handed down in September 2022 after he pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm and breach of a court order a year earlier.
He was arrested on Oct. 7, 2021, inside the lobby of a Richmond hotel with two bags. One contained a P80 9-mm semi-automatic handgun with an illegal extended magazine containing 30 rounds. The second contained a black Kel Tec semi-automatic rifle with a folding stock.
Anigbo, formerly aligned with the Red Scorpion gang, but now considered independent, was then charged in April 2023 with the first-degree murder of Kathleen Richardson in June 2021.
When charges against Anigbo and co-accused Jalen Falk were laid, police said they believed the Naramata businesswoman was killed because her son, Wade Cudmore, was involved in the B.C. gang conflict.
Damienne Darby of the B.C. Prosecution Service said Monday that no trial date has been set for Anigbo and Falk in the Richardson killing. Their next appearance in Supreme Court in Kelowna is May 1, with pretrial motions scheduled to begin in January.
A month before Richardson's murder, Vancouver police issued a warning poster about six gangsters involved in the violent conflict that had spread across the province.
Anigbo was one of those named, as were Wolfpack gangster and Hells Angel Damion Ryan and Brothers Keepers members Barinder and Meninder Dhaliwal. Ryan is in jail awaiting trial on drug smuggling charges in Manitoba. He was also recently charged in the U.S. in a murder for hire plot allegedly involving an Iranian drug lord working on behalf of his country's regime. Meninder Dhaliwal was shot to death in Whistler in July 2022, for which no one has been charged. Cudmore — Richardson's son — is also still before the courts, charged with killing brothers Erick and Carlo Fryer in May 2021 in the Naramata area.