It is a dark reality for students heading back to school in B.C., as parents are being warned to watch out for the signs of possible gang recruitment.

“Gangs target youth as young as 13, and probably even younger, but the 13-year-olds are starting to get involved, and so we need intervention,” said Kathleen Hughes, career counsellor at Progressive Intercultural Community Services (PICS).

Metro Vancouver Crimestoppers is advising guardians that as the school year ramps back up, gangs are on the lookout to recruit new targets – preying on vulnerable kids.

Linda Annis is executive director at Metro Vancouver Crime Stoppers and said, “often its youth that aren’t fitting in to other teams, kids that aren’t involved in sports, sometimes new Canadians – people are coming here, their parents ar

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