VANCOUVER 鈥� The B.C. Court of Appeal has added two years to the cocaine conspiracy sentence of notorious gangster Jarrod Bacon.
Justice Edward Chiasson said Bacon deserved a 14-year term, instead of the 12 years he was handed last year by B.C. Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Austin Cullen.
Chiasson said that Bacon was a career criminal and that "the sentence of 12 years was not fit.
"The operation was sizeable, well-developed and reasonably sophisticated," Chiasson said of the drug conspiracy in which Bacon got involved.
"Taking into account all of the circumstances of this case, I would impose a sentence of 14 years."
Appeal Court Justice Mary Newbury agreed, but the third judge who heard the appeal, Justice Anne MacKenzie disagreed and said in a dissenting decision that the 12-year term imposed by Cullen was sufficient.
Bacon and his former father-in-law Wayne Scott were arrested in November 2009 by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit after a reverse sting using an agent identified only as GL.
GL, an acquaintance of Scott's, approached the CFSEU about becoming an agent and said he believed he could get at Bacon, whose Red Scorpion gang at the time was locked in a bloody street war against rivals from the United Nations gang.
GL, a convicted smuggler himself, convinced both Bacon and Scott he was bringing in large shipments of cocaine from Mexico and both accused bought in to the fake deal.
Both Bacon and Scott were convicted in February 2012 based on incriminating statements surreptitiously recorded over several months in 2009. Bacon was sentenced in May 2012 and Scott was handed a three and a half year term last September.
In a separate ruling released Thursday, the Court of Appeal upheld the sentence handed to Scott.
