Infamous B.C. gangster Jarrod Bacon has been arrested once again, this time for assault in the province’s far north.
According to the Fort Nelson court registry, Bacon, 41, was charged with one count of aggravated assault after being arrested on Feb. 1 in the community of about 3,000 people, approximately 140 kilometres south of the Yukon border.
According to a news release from RCMP, two 41-year-old men were arrested following a shooting incident outside a local business on Jan. 29.
Bacon and the other suspect, John Chasse, are scheduled to appear remotely Tuesday afternoon in court in Williams Lake.
Long criminal history
Bacon has been in and out of prison several times over the past decade, with parole board documents showing a long criminal history and ties to both the Red Scorpions and the Bacon Brothers, a group that includes his brothers, Jamie, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty for his role in the so-called Surrey Six slayings and Jonathan, who was killed in a gangland shooting outside a Kelowna hotel and casino in 2011.
In 2012, Bacon was convicted for conspiracy to traffic cocaine after getting caught trying to smuggle $3 million worth of cocaine into Canada in 2009.
Bacon originally received a 12-year sentence that May, which was appealed by the Crown and then increased to 14 years by the B.C. Court of Appeal.
After time served in pre-trial custody, it amounted to a final sentence of nine years and two months.
Bacon was first granted statutory release erroneously in Feb. 2017, but it was suspended that July after he breached special conditions related to avoiding bars and associating with criminal peers.
His statutory release was revoked, but the decision to release him in the first place was cancelled after the parole board discovered it did not have the authority to do so because an administrative error had led to a miscalculation of his eligibility for release.
He was released again in June 2018 with conditions on residency and drug use, but after testing positive for cocaine, his release was suspended and eventually revoked in June 2019.
He was granted statutory release from prison for a third time in August 2020 with conditions he not consume illegal drugs or associate with people involved in criminal activities.
A parole board review in 2021 resulted in stricter conditions being imposed, including a requirement to live in a halfway house, to disclose personal banking information, to not own or possess more than one mobile communication device or SIM card and to take his prescription medication.
At that time, he had requested to be released into another community over what he said were safety concerns.