Accused trafficker Jarrod Bacon took the stand in his drug trial Monday, and claimed that he didn't plan to buy cocaine from a police agent -- he wanted to steal it.
Twenty-eight-year-old Bacon, the middle brother in a trio of notorious suspected gangsters, testified in B.C. Supreme Court and admitted that he and his father-in-law Wayne Scott agreed to purchase as much as 100 kilograms of cocaine from the agent in August 2009.
Bacon told the court that during a meeting with the agent to arrange the deal he wrote on a board so as not to be heard, but he still made incriminating comments that were caught on tape. He said he told the agent that he had the backing of a broker who was funding the deal.
But Bacon said he never planned to pay for the haul and the hand-off was set up as a trap so that the agent would bring him at least 10 kilograms of cocaine. He said he was going to punch out the agent when he arrived.
"That's typically how a jack is set up," he testified.
"I thought for sure I would be able to rob him.... He stood no chance against me."
No cocaine was ever exchanged between the agent and either Bacon or Scott.
At the time of the sting, Bacon was dating Scott's daughter Carly, with whom he has a young child. Bacon also admitted to the court that he was using drugs at the time, snorting Oxycontin and cocaine, doing steroids and smoking marijuana.
Police have linked Bacon and his brothers to the infamous Red Scorpion gang, but Bacon testified that his parents lived a regular life and apparently did not know about his criminal lifestyle.
The eldest Bacon, Jonathan, was killed last summer in a shooting outside the Delta Grand hotel in Kelowna. Brother Jamie is currently in jail awaiting trial in the Surrey Six shootings that left six people dead in October 2007.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Lisa Rossington
