A notorious Bacon brother is back behind bars after a shooting in Fort Nelson.
Jarrod Bacon, one of three Abbotsford brothers who were once part of the Red Scorpion gang, has been charged with aggravated assault in connection with the Jan. 29 shooting.
A bail hearing is scheduled for the afternoon of Feb. 4 at the courthouse in Williams Lake.
An employee at the RCMP’s E Division headquarters said Sunday that she could not comment on the investigation or charges.
But RCMP in the Northern Rockies region issued a news release Saturday saying two people had been arrested after the shooting, which took place in front of a local business in the area of 5000-block of 51st Avenue West in Fort Nelson Wednesday night.
One of the suspects, 41, was arrested following a traffic stop Friday night, the release said.
Later that night, a Fort Nelson residence was searched and a second suspect, also 41, was arrested.
No names were in the news release, but Postmedia confirmed with sources that Bacon, who is 41, was charged. He is listed in the online court database in connection with the investigation, though the specific charge is not accessible.
Fort Nelson is in the northeast corner of the province at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. One source said that Bacon had been living in the region in recent months.
Bacon has not been in the news since March of 2021 when the Parole Board of Canada issued more conditions on his statutory release after he had violated the ones already in place on three occasions.
The 2021 decision said Bacon wanted “to be released in another region for safety concerns.”
“File information reveals that you are identified as a member of the Red Scorpions and the Bacon Brothers organization, which is very influential in Western Canada, and has links with a notorious criminal organization,” the board member said.
While she didn’t identify the criminal organization, an earlier parole decision said it was the Hells Angels.
Bacon had been arrested in December 2020 over allegations he had quickly deleted information on a cellphone just as a parole officer, accompanied by police, arrived at his then-girlfriend’s residence to check on him. He was re-released into the community with the new conditions.
Along with his brothers Jamie and Jonathan Bacon and other Red Scorpion gangsters were targeted by United Nations gangsters at the height of the Lower Mainland gang conflict. Jamie was arrested in the 2007 Surrey Six murders and later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kill. He remains behind bars.
Jonathan, who had just formed the Wolfpack alliance with Hells Angel Larry Amero and Independent Soldier James Riach, was killed in a targeted shooting in Kelowna in August 2011. Three UN gangsters were convicted.
Jarrod Bacon was convicted in 2012 of conspiracy to traffic 100 kilograms of cocaine and initially sentenced to 12 years, which was later increased by the B.C. Court of Appeal to 14 years.
The conviction stemmed from a reverse sting where undercover Mounties posed as drug traffickers to convince Bacon to get involved in a fake cocaine deal.
After his first statutory release in early 2017, Bacon was involved in a violent confrontation outside of a bar. But his release revocation was overturned after his lawyer argued on appeal that Bacon had been released in error earlier than he should have been.
He was released again in 2018 at the actual two-thirds mark of his sentence. He was arrested in December 2018 after testing positive for cocaine.
Then in July 2019, the parole board ruled that Bacon’s statutory release would be revoked because of the challenges of managing him in the community.
When he was released again in the summer of 2020, a parole board member ordered him to live in a designated halfway house or community correctional facility to give him “the opportunity to demonstrate your motivation to adopt a lifestyle away from previous affiliations.”
