Organized crime: heat rises around Jarrod Bacon
The criminal gang warfare in Western Canada seems to be moving to Quebec soil, as two men approached an ex-inmate near a halfway house in Quebec in an attempt to track down one of the most notorious criminals in Quebec. British Columbia.
The only problem: their target, Jarrod Bacon, would not be in Quebec, but in the Montreal area.
According to our information, last week two black men showed a photo of Jarrod Bacon to the ex-inmate near a halfway house in the Capitale-Nationale, in order to find out if he was residing there.
The worrying information, to say the least, has reached the ears of law enforcement authorities.
Jarrod Bacon, 37, is a notorious criminal in British Columbia. He was released from prison at the end of March after serving his sentence for attempting to import 200 kg of cocaine into the country. He has since been staying in a halfway house in the metropolitan area.
The two individuals who were trying to locate Bacon have not been arrested and it is not clear why they want to locate him.
Reign of fear
But you might think that people are resenting Jarrod Bacon, the one who has created fear in British Columbia for the past two decades along with his two brothers, Jonathan and Jamie.
The three brothers were senior members of the Red Scorpions criminal gang, who were engaged in a bloody war with another criminal group, the United Nations (UN).
Since the mid-2000s, the siblings have been suspected of drug trafficking and numerous violent crimes involving firearms.
In 2012, the youngest of the family, Jarrod, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring to smuggle cocaine, but his sentence was increased to 14 years in the Court of Appeal.
He was first released on parole in 2017.
His release was, however, revoked three times rather than once over the following years due to breaches of his conditions.
Jarrod Bacon and his two brothers have made headlines in British Columbia multiple times over the past 20 years, mostly because of their criminal activities.
The youngest of the Bacon brothers, Jamie, was arrested in 2009 for his involvement in a massacre two years earlier in Surrey, British Columbia, in which six people, including two innocent people, were coldly shot. Local media have dubbed the affair "Surrey Six".
First charged with premeditated murder, Jamie Bacon eventually pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of conspiracy to murder. He is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence.
To date, the "Surrey Six" case is considered the deadliest event involving gang members in the history of the province.
Close to the Hells
The eldest sibling, Jonathan, was the alleged leader of the Red Scorpions when he was assassinated outside a Kelowna hotel in 2011.
He was at this time with Larry Amero, a member in good standing of the BC Hells Angels. Amero suffered very serious injuries in the attack, but he miraculously survived.
Larry Amero is a name well known to police authorities in Quebec, he who was arrested in 2012 as part of the Loquace project, led by the Sûreté du Québec.
This important investigation targeted a consortium of criminals who decided to take control of the importation and distribution of cocaine in Quebec while the majority of the Hells Angels were behind bars following Operation SharQc.
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/06/03/crime-organise-la-chaleur-grimpe-autour-de-jarrod-bacon
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