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Gangster Sentenced In Bacon Brothers Plot

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.19.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - A senior Vancouver-area gang member, who pleaded guilty to a murder plot and killing amid a bloody gang war that tragically underscored ho...

UN Gang Member Pleads Guilty

CP | Neal Hall, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.16.2013 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - A senior member of the United Nations gang has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder the Bacon brothers, the infamous leaders of a rival ...

The Notorious Bacon Brothers: Inside Gang Warfare on Vancouver Streets

Jerry Langton | Posted 05.09.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Jerry Langton

Jamie Bacon didn't even see the two guys on the street in front of the Surrey house at about one in the morning on April 13. But as he drove his Corvette into the driveway, the two men sent a cascade of .45-caliber shells at him. Five shells hit the car, seven penetrated the garage door. Jamie instinctively leapt from the car, which continued to roll until it hit the house. As the two assailants ran away, Jamie pulled out a Glock handgun and fired four shots at them.

Jonathan Bacon Gang Slaying Won't Be The Last

Jerry Langton | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Jerry Langton

Of course, selling drugs is a dangerous game. With so much money involved, friction between rival gangs often emerges, and disagreements over territory frequently erupt into violence. Because of this, gangs form alliances for mutual protection. In B.C., as with the rest of Canada, those alliances fall into two groups -- those aligned with the Hells Angels and those against them.

B.C. Men Charged In Bacon Gang Slaying

CP | Tamsyn Burgmann, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.27.2013 | Canada British Columbia

DELTA, B.C. - Three men suspected in the bloody shooting death of an organized crime kingpin outside a Kelowna, B.C., hotel nearly two years ago have ...

B.C. Gang Violence Heats Up

CBC | Posted 01.27.2013 | Canada British Columbia

The slayings of two drug-gang associates in Burnaby, B.C., Monday is likely the latest round of systematic retribution for the killing of gangster Jon...

Bacon Brother's Court Victory

CBC | Posted 12.03.2012 | Canada British Columbia

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has sided with Jamie Bacon in his fight with provincial corrections officials, saying the accused killer's rights were viol...

Grandfather Charged In Cocaine Conspiracy

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.17.2012 | Canada British Columbia

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia truck driver admitted Monday he was stupid to get involved with a high-profile gang figure, the father of his grandchil...

Kelowna Gang Shooting Victim Left A Quadriplegic

CBC | CBC | Posted 10.17.2011 | Canada

A woman wounded in a gangland shooting in Kelowna, B.C., on Sunday has been left a quadriplegic, CBC News has learned. Leah H...