A UN Gang member who was among those who conspired to kill the rival Bacon brothers when they were living in Abbotsford in 2008 and 2009 has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Conor Vincent D’Monte was sentenced Wednesday (April 1) in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver.
He previously pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit murder of the Bacons – Jonathon, Jarrod and Jamie – and their associates between Jan. 1, 2008 and Feb. 17, 2009 when they were running the Red Scorpions gang.
Court records indicate that after credit for time served, D’Monte’s remaining jail time is seven years, 10 months.
Sgt. Sarbjit K. Sangha, media officer with the The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU), said D’Monte’s sentence reflects “the serious and calculated nature of the violence that occurred during one of the most turbulent periods of gang conflict in B.C.’s history.”
“The actions of those involved put countless lives at risk and contributed to significant harm in our communities,” Sangha said.
D’Monte had also been charged with the first-degree murder of rival gangster Kevin LeClair, 26, who was gunned down in February 2009 in a Langley strip mall, but that was stayed at sentencing.
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 Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU) of British Columbia and the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) previously said there have been 18 arrests and 12 convictions of UN Gang members and associates over the years.
D’Monte left Canada in 2011 before he could be arrested for the murder conspiracy or in relation to 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 in 2024.
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.
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