B.C. gangster charged with aggravated assault after lakeside beating

A longtime member of the Independent Soldiers gang has been charged with aggravated assault after a man was beaten with a golf club at a lake in the Okanagan Saturday.
Jody Archie York, 43, appeared in Vernon provincial court on Monday and was released on $2,000 bail.
York was charged after the attack at Monte Lake, between Vernon and Kamloops, just before 8 a.m. Saturday morning.
Sources said the victim was with friends on one side of the lake when they heard a woman screaming from a group on t