Many Indo-Canadian Men Have Allegedly Been Killed Over Bacon Murder As Police Took Too Long To Bring Charges
DELTA – One of the most notorious Indo-Canadian gangsters Jujhur Khun-Khun – who gained instant infamy from an episode involving his Surrey girlfriend who eventually died after she fell or was thrown from his car – is one of three men charged with killing of Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon, who was also one of the dreaded Caucasian gangsters.
Khun-Khun, along with Michael Jones, both 25-years-old, and 37-year-old Jason McBrider are now charged with first-degree murder. Each are also charged with four counts of attempted murder in the incident that also involved members o f the Hells Angels.
Two of Bacon’s associates, Hells Angel Larry Amero and Independent Soldier James Riach, were wounded in the shootout, as was Leah Hadden-Watts, then 21, who was shot in the neck and left paralyzed.
Bacon, a high-profile gangster, was gunned down outside the Delta Grand Okanagan hotel in Kelowna in August, 2011.
Officers with BC’s Combined Special Enforcement Unit say they arrested the trio in separate stings on Friday following an 18 month of investigation into the death of Jonathan Bacon.
Police did not say where the investigations are involving nearly a dozen Indo-Canadian men who have been murdered over the last few years, not to mention the more than 150 that have been killed in over a decade.
Chief Officer Dan Malo says 100 officers executed warrants to arrest the men without incident in Vancouver, Surrey, and Toronto.
Malo alleges Bacon’s murder prompted retaliatory murders that caused certain crime groups in B.C. to align.
Police say Bacon, Amaro and Riach were in Kelowna that weekend as part of crime alliance dubbed the “Wolf Pack.”
Khun-Khun is well known to police, and was the target of a gangland shooting in 2011. He was critically injured in a Surrey shooting as he picked up a gangster from their Surrey home. Khun-Khun was shot again last month, in an incident that saw gangster Manjinder Singh Hairan executed, police added.
The three accused were arrested last week in simultaneous raids across Canada. Khun-Khun was picked up at his home in Surrey, McBride was arrested in Toronto and Jones was arrested in Vancouver.
Sgt. Lindsay Houghton, spokesperson for the CFSEU, all of the men charged are linked to the late gangster Sukh Dhak, 28, a member of the Duhre crime group who was killed in a targeted attack with his bodyguard Thomas Mantel, 30, in Nov. 2012. Before his death police regularly warned that Dhak, who was on trial for drug trafficking, could be targeted by rivals following the fatal shooting of his brother outside of Metrotown Mall in 2010.
Duhre gang leader Sandip Duhre was gunned down in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Vancouver on Jan. 16, 2012.
Monday’s arrests could usher in another spat of retaliation gun violence, said CFSEY Supt. Dan Malo.
“Whenever we disrupt the regular organized crime activities of these violent individuals there’s always some flow that comes from that, and we need to with our police intelligence community pay particular attention to that,” Malo said.
