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When homicide investigators arrived at the Port Coquitlam house of accused killer Alan Taheri last December, someone inside threw a gun and a bag full of drugs out a window.
T aheri was charged Dec. 19, 2025 with second-degree murder and indignity to human remains in the slaying six years earlier of Edi Bogere, whose body was found in Maple Ridge just weeks after he vanished.
Details of the drugs and cash found during Taheri’s arrest are laid out in a lawsuit filed against Taheri by B.C.’s director of civil forfeiture.
Officers from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team and an emergency response team arrived at the house on McPherson Drive days before Christmas to arrest Taheri in connection with the 2019 murder, the director’s lawsuit says.
As they arrived, an “unknown person threw a handgun and a shopping bag from a window of the property,” the lawsuit said.
Police seized the gun and bag, which contained $8,445, 10 cellphones, a bag with 427 grams of methamphetamine inside, 10 more plastic bags with a total of 271.31 grams of meth, 53 grams of cocaine, 40.9 grams of fentanyl and 7.84 grams of ecstasy pills.
“The money was bundled or packaged in a manner not consistent with standard banking practices, including wrapped in elastic bands, including multiple elastic-bound bundles of exactly $1,000,” the claim said.
The director said the cash should be forfeited as it was derived from illegal activities, including possession for the purpose of trafficking, trafficking, possession of the proceeds of crime, money laundering and failure to declare income tax. Taheri was also involved in sending contraband to a correctional centre, the lawsuit alleged.
The director noted that Taheri “has convictions for counselling an indictable offence, possession of a weapon, possession of firearms or ammunition contrary to a prohibition order, failure to comply with probation order and breach of a conditional sentence order.”
No statement of defence has been filed.
Taheri is due in a Port Coquitlam courtroom this week on charges unrelated to the murder, but will make his next appearance on May 11 in connection with Bogere’s killing.
Bogere, 24, was a gifted soccer star who played for Coquitlam’s Sparta SC U-18 squad that won the Canadian National Championship. He was last seen alive as he left his Coquitlam home at 7 p.m. on Dec. 27, 2019. His body was found Jan. 11 in a vacant forested property in the 24500-block of Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge.
Police said at the time that the killing was neither random nor gang-related.
When Taheri was arrested, IHIT said it took years of investigation “to establish the circumstances surrounding Mr. Bogere’s death which resulted in the identification of the suspect.”
No details of the motive were released.
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