Update: Charges against notorious Red Scorpion gang member Jarrod Bacon has been dropped in a BC court.
The charge against Jarrod Bacon was stayed in Fort Nelson court just weeks after he was arrested. He was charged with aggravated assault in the Jan. 29 shooting in Fort Nelson.
His co-accused, John Chasse, who was charged with assault, also had his charge stayed.
The Crown didn’t give a reason for staying charges.
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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 in Fort Nelson, BC.
A bail hearing for Jarrod Bacon is scheduled for Feb. 4 in Williams Lake court.
Also charged in the same incident is John Chasse, 41, North District RCMP Cpl. Madonna Saunderson said Monday. The two men were arrested in the shooting that was in front of a local business in the area of 5000-block of 51st Avenue West in Fort Nelson. The victim is expected to recover, say police.
The Bacon Brothers, Jonathan David (born January 31, 1981), Jarrod Wayne (born March 14, 1983), and James “Jamie” Kyle (born August 1, 1985), are a trio of gangsters from Abbotsford, BC who are suspected of multiple firearms and drug trafficking charges and implicated in numerous homicides. Jonathan, the oldest, was murdered in Kelowna in August 2011.
The Bacon family came from Edmonton. David Bacon was a special needs teacher and moved to Abbotsford for a teaching job. His wife Susan worked as a property manager for the Prospera Credit Union.
Journalist Jerry Langton previously wrote in his book The Notorious Bacon Brothers: inside gang warfare on Vancouver streets, that the Bacon brothers were typical of the gangsters in the Lower Mainland who usually came from middle-class families with loving parents. They lived in middle-class affluence in a nice house with supportive parents. They went to good schools, excelled athletically and were popular. They were just some guys who thought they could get rich selling drugs, he said.
In 2006 the brothers joined the notorious Red Scorpions gang in BC and soon took over the gang.
There was a gang war in the Lower Mainland from 2007-09 as the Red Scorpions fought the United Nations gang. The Hells Angels and the Independent Soldiers played both sides supplying guns to both.
Jamie Bacon pleaded guilty to conspiracy for Surrey Six murders in September 2020. He was serving five years and seven months and was given almost 12 years pre-trial remand credit.
Jarrod Bacon had his parole revoked and was returned to prison in September 2017 but was paroled again in August 2020.
