Thirty-year-old Red Scorpions gang boss Jonathan Bacon was gunned down on Sunday afternoon while in the company of a full-patch Hells Angels member and an alleged member of the Independent Soldiers

The fatal shooting of Red Scorpions gang boss Jonathan Bacon and the wounding of a known member of the Hells Angels has raised questions about what they were doing together.
    R-C-M-P Superintendent Pat Fogarty, with the anti-gangs task force, says their affiliation was likely based on making drug profits.
    He says there's no loyalty among gang members, who often work for different players.

    Thirty-year-old Red Scorpions gang boss Jonathan Bacon was gunned down on Sunday afternoon while in the company of a full-patch Hells Angels member and an alleged member of the Independent Soldiers Employing a combination of smarts and muscle, the three siblings from Abbotsford became one of the most successful – and most feared – gangs in British Columbia’s criminal underworld. Sunday’s slaying of Jonathan Bacon brought a swift and bloody end to their violent career

When Jonathan Bacon and his younger brothers Jarrod and Jamie burst onto the Abbotsford crime scene soon after getting out of high school just over 10 years ago, they were hungry, reckless and bold enough to take a shortcut to success.

Until he was slain in a drive-by gang shooting outside a Kelowna casino on Sunday, Jonathan led his brothers and their Red Scorpions gang on a decade-long crime rampage that terrified neighbours and even intimidated their gang rivals.

“The Bacons brought something different to the table. They made it very, very clear that they were not afraid of anybody,” said Inspector Andy Richards of the Port Moody police, who has been investigating gangs in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland for 30 years. “That really aggressive style ultimately paid some dividends for them.”

Police say the Bacon brothers kicked off their crime career by breaking into and stealing from the many marijuana grow-ops flourishing in the area. “Instead of doing all the hard work and logistics, they would just go and rip them off,” said Detective Andrew Wooding of the Abbotsford Police Department’s gang suppression unit. “They cut their teeth that way.”

The youthful gangsters quickly moved on to the huge profits to be made in so-called dial-a-dope operations, where criminals hand out 24/7 phone numbers, often on a business card, that clients can call for speedy delivery.

“That’s where the real money can be made, controlling those phones,” said Det. Wooding, estimating a single line could bring in up to $5,000 a day. “They had all kinds of drugs, every commodity covered.”