Bacon Brothers (gangsters)

The Bacon Brothers, Jonathan, Jarrod, and Jamie, are a trio of gangsters from Abbotsford, British Columbia[1] who are suspected of multiple firearms and drug trafficking charges and implicated in a rash of homicides that took place in the Fraser Valley and Greater Vancouver area.

On October 25, 2005, Jamie Bacon together with Denis Karbovanec of the Red Scorpions were arrested for uttering death threats and pointing weapons after becoming involved in a verbal alteration on Sandy Hill Road.

[42] Ker stated that Bacon was driven by his ego to order the massacre, saying: "In the twisted logic and perverse code of the criminal point of view, there is a zero tolerance policy for displays of disrespect and defiance.

[44] The elite police team spent much of their time being intoxicated at various bars and strip clubs while making sexual advances on female witnesses, which nearly ruined the case against Jamie Bacon.

[44] Two of the officers convicted claimed that their job stress made them incapable of rational thinking and the riotous bacchanalian excess that the squad engaged in was a result of their stress-induced mindlessness.

[44] Brassington's superior, Inspector David Attew of the RCMP, tried very hard to seduce the girlfriend of one of the witnesses for the Crown, which nearly caused the man to break off his agreement to testify against Jamie Bacon.

[47] In early 2008, Clayton Roueche recruited two members of Calgary's Fresh Off the Boat Killers gang, namely Billy Ly and Troy Tran, to come to the Lower Mainland to kill the Bacon brothers.

[53] On October 23, 2008, Dennis Karbovanec was stopped by the police who found he was wearing a bulletproof vest and had a loaded handgun with a silencer in a hidden compartment in his Yukon Denali automobile.

[58] On January 20, 2009, at about 3:50 pm, Jamie Bacon was driving in his Mercedes-Benz SL55 automobile on the South Fraser Way and had stopped at a red light when a SUV pulled alongside him and a group of men opened fire.

[58] Six bullets were pumped in Jamie's Mercedes-Benz, which led him to run the red light and he drove manically down the South Fraser Way at high speed, being chased by his would-be assassins.

[66] G.L had served a prison sentence in California for smuggling cocaine from Mexico, and upon his return to Canada contacted Wayne Scott, whose daughter Carly was the girlfriend of Jarrod Bacon and the mother of his child.

[66] G.L's connections with organized crime circles in the United States and Mexico together with him serving a prison sentence in California made his offer to import $3 million worth of cocaine seemed credible to Wayne Scott.

[71] Rob Gordon, a criminologist at Simon Fraser University was not impressed with the arrest, saying: "There is a colossal drug industry operating behind these kinds of individuals who, to my mind, are actually fairly low down on the pecking order".

[73] It was revealed after his guilty plea in 2019 that Brassington had billed the Crown for overtime pay while he was in fact drinking and having sex with "Jane Doe 1" in various luxury hotels in Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, Victoria, Halifax and Vancouver between June–December 2009.

[43] The statements from the two of the two detectives who sought to explain their heavy drinking on the job as due to being allegedly incapable of rational thought left the evidence gathered by the first investigation wide open to attack from Jamie Bacon's lawyers.

[86] On September 11, 2009, Jamie Bacon sued the Crown and warden Debbie Hawboldt of the Surrey Pretrial Services Centre, claiming that being held in solitary confinement was a form of torture.

[89] In a rare move, the Crown appealed the dismissal of the charges against Jonathan Bacon for the 2005 arrest, which Justice Donald Gardner had ruled was illegal because of the lack of a search warrant.

[90] Jonathan Bacon together with Larry Amero of the Hells Angels and James Riach and Randy Naicker of the Independent Soldiers formed a group called the Wolfpack Alliance in 2010.

After being shot and wounded in a restaurant, Dhak contacted the Odd Squad (youth engagement unit) of the RCMP about making an anti-gang video for high school students.

[97] In response, Dhak sent out a hit-team consisting of Jason McBride and Michael Jones from Vancouver, to be joined by Jujhar Khun-Khun and Manjinder "Manny" Hairan who travelled separately.

[98] The gunmen fired at least 30 shots into the Cayenne, killing Jonathan Bacon, wounding Amero, and leaving a 21-year waitress, Leah Hadden-Watts, a quadriplegic as she took a bullet straight through her neck, severing her spinal cord.

[102] The attack proved to be a major setback for Wolf Pack with one of its members killed, another in a hospital and a third seen widely seen as a coward as the parking lot's security cameras showed Riarch fleeing from the Cayenne.

[116] The Crown Attorney who prosecuted Jarrod at his trial in 2011–2012, Peter LaPrairie, stated to him on January 11, 2012: "“I am going to suggest to you that both your father and your mother knew exactly what was going on because they were present the night before when you and Wayne sat at their dining room table and wrote out the instructions on the green board".

[112] Bolan wrote that in her view that Jarrod's testimony was damaging to himself as he openly admitted that he had lied to get what he desired; bragged incessantly about the number of people he had beaten up; frequently exploded in rage on the stand; and arrogantly refused to answer questions from the Crown Attorney, Peter LaPrairie, giving the impression of a man who felt that he was above the law.

[112] Jarrod Bacon testified that his drug addiction drove him to crime, saying that he was paranoid and desperate for money since he was a high school student owing to his heavy use of cocaine, OxyContin and steroids.

[122] On April 3, 2009, Jamie was arrested by the RCMP Emergency response team for his involvement in the October 19, 2007, shootings of the 'Surrey Six' which included two innocent victims: Chris Mohan and Ed Schellenberg at the Balmoral Tower Highrise building in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.

[44] At his sentencing, Brassington cried hysterically in the courtroom as he admitted that his affair with "Jane Doe 1" had ruined his career, led to his marriage ending in divorce and the estrangement of his children, saying: "As a dad I shouldn't have done this.

[44] The journalist Rhianna Schunk who attended the sentencing described Brassington as a broken man who between his sobs seemed to have much self-pity for himself as he sought to portray himself as a victim, claiming that the affair was caused by work-related stress.

He reported that you were fully dressed, that you were going quickly between two rooms and that you retrieved a cellphone from under couch cushions...[the policeman] saw you sliding your finger across the screen of the phone numerous times and clicking after each swipe, suggesting that you were deleting information.

"[133] Langton wrote "Although it may sound childish and comical, the word 'goof' is considered perhaps the worst insult" in the Canadian underworld, further noting that: "At least two murders in Kingston [prison] alone since the '80s were reported to be the result of someone calling someone else the G-word".