Thomas Gisby pleaded poverty in tax affidavit

When he was gunned down in Mexico Saturday, B.C. native and crime boss Thomas Gisby was a wealthy man with real estate assets in the Lower Mainland valued at more than $2 million. But a decade ago he filed for bankruptcy, claiming he had no choice after unfair tax assessments by the Canada Revenue Agency. Police say Gisby was an international drug trafficker with cartel connections in both Mexico and Colombia that allowed him to rank at the highest level of Canadian organized crime. But it likely was his association with a violent mid-level gang known as the Dhak-Duhre group that got Gisby gunned down at a Nuevo Vallarta Starbucks just after he ordered his morning coffee.