A UN Gang member who was on the lam for more than a decade has pleaded guilty in relation to a plot to kill the Bacon brothers when they were living in Abbotsford.
Conor D’Monte is among those who were charged with conspiring to murder the three Bacons – Jonathan, Jarrod and Jamie – when they were running the rival Red Scorpions gang.
But a more serious charge against D’Monte is expected to be stayed in court: the first-degree murder of rival gangster Kevin LeClair, 26, who was gunned down on Feb. 6, 2009 in a Langley strip mall.
The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU) of British Columbia and the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) announced D’Monte’s plea to the murder conspiracy on Wednesday (Oct. 22).
In 2008 and 2009, the UN Gang and the Red Scorpions were immersed in a violent conflict that included several murders and drive-by shootings – often in broad daylight in public places.
Eight people were charged in January 2011 with conspiring to kill the Bacons in the period from Jan. 1, 2008 to Feb. 17, 2009.
The CFSEU and IHIT say, in total, there have been 18 arrests and 12 convictions of UN Gang members and associates over the years.
But D’Monte left Canada in 2011 before he could be arrested for the murder conspiracy or LeClair’s killing, as did his co-accused Cory Vallee.
Vallee was arrested in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2014 and was convicted of both charges in 2018. He was sentenced to life with no parole eligibility for 25 years.
D’Monte, who was using a different name, was arrested in Puerto Rico in 2022 and extradited to Canada.
He appeared in a Vancouver courtroom on Tuesday (Oct. 21) to enter his guilty plea, with his next court date scheduled for Nov. 12 to set a date for his sentencing hearing.
Jonathan Bacon was fatally shot in Kelowna in August 2011.
Jarrod Bacon was sentenced in May 2012 to a 14-year prison term for conspiracy to traffic cocaine when he was living in Abbotsford.
He was out of prison and was re-arrested in relation to a January 2025 shooting in Fort Nelson that sent one man to hospital, but that charge was dropped the following month.
Jamie Bacon remains in prison after being arrested in relation to the 2007 Surrey Six killings. He pleaded guilty in 2020 to conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to another five and a half years in jail.