{"id":622580,"date":"2026-04-23T04:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622580\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:49:11","slug":"notorious-b-c-gangster-jamie-bacon-released-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622580\/","title":{"rendered":"Notorious B.C. gangster Jamie Bacon released from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of B.C.\u2019s most notorious gangsters is out of prison after serving his sentence for his role in the Surrey Six massacre.<\/p>\n

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Jamie Bacon is living in Edmonton under a curfew and a string of court-ordered conditions.<\/p>\n

He will be monitored by Alberta Provincial Corrections as well as the local police in Edmonton, according to the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C.<\/p>\n

Bacon has been described as the mastermind of the 2007 murder of six people in Surrey\u2019s Balmoral Towers.<\/p>\n

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Two innocent bystanders were killed in the targeted hit of four rival gangsters.<\/p>\n

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Bacon was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to 18 years behind bars.<\/p>\n

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Because of time served, he has now completed his sentence.<\/p>\n

Six other people were convicted for roles in the killings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of B.C.\u2019s most notorious gangsters is out of prison after serving his sentence for his role in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2169,43,233521,233522,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-622580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-jamie-bacon","11":"tag-jamie-bacon-surrey-six","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}