Judge denies bail to UN gangster charged with plotting to kill Bacons

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has denied a bail application from a United Nations gangster charged with plotting to kill the Bacon brothers and their Red Scorpion associates.

Troy Tran, 33, and his gang-mate Billy Ly, 32, were arrested in January following a lengthy investigation by law enforcement agencies in B.C. and Alberta.

They were charged with one count of conspiring to kill the rival Bacon brothers during a bloody gang war in 2008 and 2009.

Ly was released on strict bail in April by Justice Catherine Bruce.

But on Friday, Justice Jeanne Watchuk denied Tran’s application to be released from custody pending his trial.

The reasons for her decision, which took her more than an hour to read in court, are covered by a publication ban.

Both Tran and Ly grew up in Calgary where they are alleged to have gotten involved in a gang known as the Fresh Off the Boat Killers, or FK.

The Vancouver Sun has previously revealed the FK’s close relationship with the UN gang founded in the Fraser Valley by Clay Rouche in 1997.

When Tran and Ly were arrested, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team identified them as UN members.

Both Tran and Ly were earlier identified in B.C. court documents as non-indicted co-conspirators in the plot to murder Jamie, Jonathan and Jarrod Bacon.

Jamie Bacon is currently awaiting trial in the Surrey Six murders. Jarrod Bacon was convicted of conspiracy to traffic in cocaine and sentenced to 14 years and Jonathan Bacon, the eldest of the trio, was murdered in Kelowna in 2011.

Already several members and associates of the UN gang have been convicted for their role in the plot to kill the notorious siblings, which spanned 2008 to 2009 and led to a series of shootings, attempted murders and murders across the Lower Mainland. Killed in the dispute was Jonathan Barber, a young man who was mistaken for Jamie Bacon when he was shot to death in Burnaby. His girlfriend was wounded. Red Scorpion Kevin LeClair was killed in Langley.

Still wanted in the murder conspiracy is Conor Vincent D’Monte, who is believed to have fled Canada in 2011. And another accused, Cory Vallee, is set to go to trial in October in B.C. Supreme Court on two murder counts, as well as a conspiracy charge.

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