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Gang leader and another man charged after shooting in Fort Nelson, B.C.

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 04 Feb, 2025 03:00 PM

A man well known to police and identified in the courts as a gang leader faces charges in connection with a shooting in Fort Nelson, B.C.

Police say Jarrod Bacon has been charged with aggravated assault, while John Chasse faces an assault charge in connection with the shooting that sent one person to hospital last Wednesday.

Mounties say one of the men was arrested Friday during a traffic stop, and the other was arrested after a search warrant was executed on a home that evening.

Court records show both men have criminal histories dating back decades in B.C., and Bacon has been identified by police and in the courts as one of the leaders of the Red Scorpions, a drug trafficking group tied to a deadly gang war in the province.

Bacon and Chasse, who are both 41 years old, were scheduled to appear in Williams Lake provincial court on Tuesday.

Records show Chasse is due in Richmond provincial court on Feb. 18 for alleged probation violations, and he also faces drug trafficking charges in Abbotsford this March for alleged offences in Mission, B.C., dating back to 2022.

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