A prosecutor on Friday dismissed the testimony of Abbotsford gangster Jarrod Bacon in his cocaine conspiracy trial as an “outright fabrication” and called the accused an “unmitigated liar.”
Maggie Loda told a judge that the evidence at trial is “beyond doubt” that Bacon and his co-accused Wayne Scott are guilty of conspiracy to traffic in cocaine.
Bacon, 28, and Scott, 55, have each pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy to traffic drugs.
Bacon took the stand to say that he had lied when he was caught on wiretaps talking with a police agent about a deal to import up to 100 kilograms of cocaine from Mexico to Canada.
He told the court that his true intention was to steal the drugs.
But Loda told B.C. Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Austen Cullen that the accused had lied in his testimony.
“His evidence is not worthy of any belief whatsoever,” she said. “Even if it is believed, both (Bacon and Scott) are still guilty of the offence.”
Bacon’s lawyer argued that the intention to steal drugs destroyed the conspiracy theory but Loda said that that was not the case.
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“Bacon and Scott agreed to obtain cocaine for distribution and that is true whether or not Bacon was going to steal the cocaine.”
Loda said that Bacon’s testimony should be used against Scott and that Scott’s statements should be used against Bacon.
She called him an “unmigiated liar” and said his evidence should be dismissed in whole by the court.
“It’s worth noting that Mr. Bacon gave his evidence in an obstructionist, combative and evasive way. He was disrespectful to the court and was at the best of times non-responsive.”
Loda said Bacon’s repeated assertion that Scott had nothing to do with the deal was inconsistent with his own evidence, that he’d received notes from Scott and that he used him as a pawn.
The assertion was also inconsistent with other evidence which indicated that Scott had passed on messages and set up meetings, knowing what Bacon and the agent had talked about.
Bacon claimed that he didn’t talk to girls about his business and specifically didn’t talk to his girlfriend, Carly Scott, the mother of his child.
But Loda said that evidence was inconsistent with the wiretaps, which indicate Carly was not only present at a 2009 meeting where the drug deal is discussed, but also comments on the agent’s handwriting on an eraser board.
The claim by Bacon that he was not a drug dealer, only an enforcer who beat people up, was also contradicted by the evidence, she said.
Bacon’s claim that his parents didn’t know about his criminal lifestyle was “one of the most unbelievable aspects of his testimony,” said Loda.
The prosecutor noted that Bacon’s parents drove him to meetings where drug deals were discussed, that their home was under constant surveillance and was the site of a 2005 shooting of Bacon’s older brother Jonathan and that they knew about Bacon wearing body armor.
“In the face of all of that, he said his parents didn’t know about his criminal lifestyle.”
Bacon testified that he hated police and showed during the proceedings an “open disdain for the court,” said Loda.
His testimony that he planned to steal the drugs at Scott’s house was inconsistent with wiretaps indicating Scott didn’t want the drugs in his house and that the plan was always to have the drugs picked up at a warehouse, she said.
The accused, who was under strict bail conditions, couldn’t say how he was going to get to Scott’s residence, how he would leave and where the drugs would go.
“He had no answers because none of it was true,” said the prosecutor.
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