Abbotsford News Tuesday, July 9, 2013
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Good Samaritans have come to the aid of an Abbotsford woman who was robbed last Tuesday while travelling in her mobility scooter. Kim was traumatized by the incident, which took place at about 3 p.m. on Roberts Avenue – located between McCallum Road and Bourquin Crescent East, one block south of South Fraser Way. She phoned The News on Friday to warn others with mobility issues to be wary of their surroundings. Kim had been returning from having her scooter repaired at the MediChair location at McCallum Road and Switzer Avenue, and was heading to her home in the area of Old Yale Road and South Fraser Way. She was passing through the parking lot behind the bowling alley near MediChair, and noticed two men. As she progressed along Roberts Avenue, one of them came up on her right, which distracted her while the other one stole the floral tote bag she had stored in the basket of her scooter. The bag contained her ID, $220 cash and her Samsung Galaxy S4 cellphone, which she had just purchased on June
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Thieves targeted a woman travelling on a mobility scooter on Roberts Avenue last week. 25. Kim, who lives on a fixed income, said she rarely treats herself to anything new, but wanted a good, reliable phone. She has no friends or family in the community, and she relies on the device to make medical appointments and to keep in touch with her two daughters and three young grandchildren. It brought a bit of excitement and joy to an otherwise challenging life. Kim broke her neck five years ago when she was pushed down the stairs in a domestic incident.
She spent four months recuperating in hospital and has ongoing physical issues, including difficulties in walking, showering, sleeping and eating. Kim said the incident also resulted in her suffering anxiety and panic attacks. The robbery has magnified these issues. “I haven’t slept and I haven’t eaten for three days,” she said on Friday. Kim reported the incident to police, but the men were wearing hoodies and she was unable to get a good description of them. She is concerned that other vulnerable people could become prey for the thieves. “People need to know to watch their backs,” she said. Kim approached government agencies to see if she could be compensated for her stolen funds, but she was turned down. The story was posted on The News’ website on Friday afternoon and, by Monday, a group from University of the Fraser Valley came forward with enough donations to cover the money that had been stolen from Kim. Kim was touched when she received word of the donation. “I am so, so eternally grateful, after all that I’ve been through,” she said.
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pleaded guilty in April of this year to the conspiracy charges and to manslaughter in Barber’s death. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison. During the period of the conspiracy charges, the Bacons were living in Abbotsford. In May 2008, the Abbotsford Police Department (APD) warned the public that anyone associating with the Bacon brothers was putting their life at risk. In October of that year, the APD installed video surveillance cameras in the Bacons’ neighbourhood in east Abbotsford. In Jan. 20, 2009, Jamie Bacon was shot at numerous times in broad daylight at the busy intersection of South Fraser Way
and Sumas Way. He fled in a black Mercedes SL55 and slammed into a stone stairway at the Keg restaurant on West Railway Street, but was not injured. Jamie is currently in prison, serving a seven-year term on weapons offences while awaiting trial in the Surrey Six murders. Jarrod is also in prison, serving a 12-year sentence on conspiracy to traffic cocaine. He has appealed that sentence, seeking a lighter term. The Crown has also appealed, saying the term should be longer. Jonathan was killed in a drive-by shooting in Kelowna in August 2011. Three people have been charged with this murder, but a trial date has not yet been set.
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Five UN gangsters have pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill the Bacon brothers in 2008 and 2009. Barzan Tilli-Choli, Karwan Ahmet Saed, Ion Kroitoru, Yong Sung John Lee and Dilun Heng entered the pleas on Monday in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver. Sentencing will take place at a later date. The five had also been charged with the first-degree murder of Langley’s Jonathan Barber, who was gunned down in May 2008 in Burnaby while driving Jamie Bacon’s vehicle to have stereo equipment installed, and the attempted murder of Barber’s girlfriend
Vicky King, who was following in a separate vehicle. Those charges are being stayed by the Crown. At the time of the conspiracy, the UN Gang and the Red Scorpions – to which the Bacons were aligned – were embroiled in a war for control of the Fraser Valley drug trade. The five were among eight people charged in January 2011 with conspiring to kill the Bacon brothers – Jamie, Jarrod and Jonathan – in the period from Jan. 1, 2008 to Feb. 17, 2009. Co-accused Conor D’Monte and Cory Vallee have been at large since the charges were announced. Dan Russell had his case severed from the others and
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