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Bacon Funeral Cancelled

Wednesday 24 August 2011

A funeral service for slain gangster Jon Bacon, 30, was to be held later this week for family and close friends. But several sources have told me that the family decided to cancel the event.

Instead, Bacon was cremated and the family gathered in a Lower Mainland park Tuesday to say good-bye.

The Gang Task Force has said publicly they would be on-hand for the funeral of any high-profile gangster, including Bacon, to ensure public safety. Obviously there would have been security concerns surrounding any Bacon event, considering the long list of enemies that Jon, his brothers, and their associates have.

There was a viewing at Langley's Henderson Funeral Home last Friday attended by only 30 people or so. Police watched from a respectful distance and there were no incidents.

I will leave the Real Scoop up and running for your comments until Wednesday morning and then close it down till Labour Day so I can get back to my end-of-summer plans.

Let's hope that things remain relatively quiet out there in terms of gang violence.

 

Drunk gangster busted with loaded gun

A man with out-of-province gang connections was arrested in downtown Kelowna early Wednesday morning.

On August 24, at approximately 2:26 a.m., the Kelowna RCMP were advised of a disturbance call in the 300 block of Bernard Avenue.

A drunk man with organized crime connections was busted with a loaded handgun in Kelowna early Wednesday morning.
"Upon arrival the RCMP received information that a large white male had been standing on the sidewalk with what appeared to be a handgun in his pants and his shirt pulled up over the lower half of his face," says RCMP Staff Sgt. Terry McLachlan.

McLachlan says the male had reportedly been in an altercation with patrons in a bar and stated that he was waiting for someone to come out of the bar.

"The male was reported to have departed in a white SUV. When RCMP members arrived, the described white SUV was not seen."

Officers spotted a similar white SUV across the street with the suspect inside.

"The 29-year-old intoxicated male was taken into custody and a loaded .45 calibre handgun was seized from the white SUV."

McLachlan says the male is affiliated with organized crime in Edmonton, Alberta, and has an existing warrant from there.

The male will be appearing in Kelowna Provincial Court Wednesday, August 24, to face weapons-related charges.

 

Jonathan Bacon won't appear in court again, after all. The eldest of three perennially accused, criminally sanctioned brothers, he was facing trial on more drugs and weapons charges. Then bang, bang, bang. Bullets flew on Sunday.

Tuesday 16 August 2011

Jonathan Bacon won't appear in court again, after all. The eldest of three perennially accused, criminally sanctioned brothers, he was facing trial on more drugs and weapons charges. Then bang, bang, bang. Bullets flew on Sunday. One-third of a notorious fraternal enterprise is gone.

Bacon was shot dead Sunday afternoon after leaving the Delta Grand Okanagan, a conspicuous hotel and casino complex in downtown Kelowna. A masked assailant pointed an automatic rifle at a white Porsche Cayenne and fired, killing Bacon and wounding as many as five other passengers, including two women and at least one known member of the Hells Angels, reportedly a close friend of the deceased. The shooter fled in another vehicle. As of Monday afternoon, no arrests had been made.

According to published accounts, Bacon and alleged criminal cohorts had been under police surveillance but not immediately before the brazen attack, which took place about one kilometre from a clubhouse used by a local chapter of the Hells Angels.

It had to be horrifying, especially to bystanders at the Delta Grand, but violence has followed the Bacons everywhere. Alleged to be the core of a criminal gang called the Red Scorpions, the brothers have suffered attempts on their lives before, and had always survived. Police took the very unusual step of warning the public to steer clear of the Bacons, lest innocents get caught in gang wars and deadly crossfire.

Jonathan, 29, survived a 2006 shooting on the driveway of his family's former Abbotsford home. James (Jamie) Bacon, 25, the youngest of the three brothers, took a bullet outside the same suburban house the following year, as he climbed out of his brother's Corvette sports car.

"Someone, but more likely two people, opened fire on him with a barrage of 45 calibre bullets," read a B.C. provincial court judgment, related to that shooting incident.

"At least five bullets hit the Corvette, seven went through the attached garage door, and one became embedded in [a Bacon family SUV]. James Bacon was hit by one bullet in the back between his shoulder blades, which would likely have seriously injured or killed him, except for the ballistic vest he was wearing."

The Bacons aren't boys to back down. Jamie fired back at his unnamed assailants with a Glock handgun, a prohibited weapon in Canada. Two men then emerged from the Bacon home and stashed the weapon in a "secret compartment" installed inside the family SUV.

Police discovered the gun, and three other prohibited semi-automatic weapons, inside the secret compartment, during their investigations the next day.

Not two weeks prior, Jamie Bacon was sentenced to three years in prison, on an earlier drugs-related robbery conviction. Why was he not locked behind bars, but instead free to drive around in a Corvette? Because the court had determined he'd already served an "equivalent sentence" of 14 months for the robbery, in pre-trial custody. So he walked, took a bullet in the back, and fired at his assailants with his Glock.

He was arrested again in 2008, this time with Jarrod, the middle Bacon brother, now 28. The pair were accused of dozens of firearms offences. Jamie was eventually convicted on some of those charges; Jarrod's charges were stayed. But their legal problems were far from over and their notoriety only grew.

In 2009, Jamie was charged with first-degree murder, and conspiracy to commit murder, for his alleged role in the 2007 massacre of six people in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb. He was delivered to a Surrey remand centre and eventually was placed in solitary confinement. He complained: He found his living conditions deplorable.

Bacon took the remand centre to court and won. A B.C. Supreme Court judge found that Bacon's Charter rights had been breached. "His treatment by the administration and guards is highly arbitrary and further accentuates his powerlessness," the judge ruled.

Later court documents attest that "Mr. Bacon's circumstances at Surrey Pre-Trial have improved considerably" since the ruling. His trial on the so-called Surrey Six charges still looms.

Jarrod Bacon, meanwhile, is locked up and awaiting trial on charges related to more drug trafficking allegations. Jarrod avoided prosecution in 2004 on an attempted-murder rap; the charge was stayed after an alleged victim refused to testify.

Although brother Jonathan's luck ran out Sunday, all three Bacon boys had caught some breaks.

They benefitted from able defence lawyers and a legal system that spat them back into society. And they had supportive parents: That's made their trajectories more strange.

The brothers didn't come from poverty or a broken home. As one judge noted recently in a court decision, the Bacons brothers were raised "in a middle-class home - both parents had good employment."

David Bacon was employed by the Abbotsford school district, and was put on paid leave in 2008. Susan Bacon has been manager at a local credit union.

They have stood by their sons - and fought for them, in the courts and in the press - through all of the shootings, the accusations, the trials and convictions, and through what they have claimed are campaigns of police and public harassment aimed at themselves, always themselves, the self-appointed victims caught in a cycle of mean-spirited prosecution, to say nothing of guns and drugs and bloodshed.

Now they are forced to cope with the murder of one of their own. Awful for any parent. But no one can say this came as a surprise.

Everyone was warned and we all saw it coming: Retaliatory violence. What else could come, except for more?

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