UN Gang had close links to Calgary’s Fresh Off the Boat Killers: Police

UN Gang had close links to Calgary’s Fresh Off the Boat Killers: Police

July 12, 2013. 7:02 pm • Section: The Real Scoop

Clay Roueche in prison June 2013

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After Jonathan Barber was shot to death in May 2008, alleged killer Troy Tran admitted to an associate that he mistakenly believed he hit Jamie Bacon because all “white guys” look the same.
Tran, a Calgary gangster linked to the Fresh Off the Boat Killers (FK), was regularly in B.C. in the company of United Nations leader Clay Roueche and others in the gang behind a lengthy conspiracy to murder the Bacon brothers and their Red Scorpion associates.
While Tran has not been charged in the Barber murder, both he and FK gangster Billy Ly were listed as unindicted co-conspirators in B.C. Supreme Court this week in both in the slaying of Barber and the plot to kill B.C.’s most notorious gangster siblings.
And the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the case is still open despite the guilty pleas July 8 of five gangsters in the conspiracy, suggesting more charges may be coming.
Police experts say the connections between the B.C.-based UN and the Calgary gang run so deep that Alberta gangsters were willing to kill for Roueche in this province.
Sgt. Jennifer Pound, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said Friday that “police believe there was a clear link between the Fresh Off the Boat Killers and the UN gang during the period of the indictment” in the Bacon plot.
Abbotsford Police Det. Andrew Wooding, who worked on the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit probe into the UN that began in 2006, said that in the early days of the case, investigators watched as Roueche met with numerous Calgary FK gangsters, including Ly, Tran and the late Mark Kim, who was gunned down on New Year’s Eve 2007.
“It became clear from our surveillance that these guys were actually working with Roueche and taking direction from Roueche,” Wooding said.
“At the time, we believed the FK were adopted by the UN and they were benefiting by getting better access to cocaine through the UN supply lines and the UN were bringing that sort of oversight and organization and the threat of a larger group that are looking after you.”
Not only have Ly and Tran been implicated in the murder of Barber, an innocent stereo installer, but others in the FK are linked to other shootings in both Vancouver and Chilliwack, The Vancouver Sun has learned.
Wooding confirmed that both Ly and Tran were with Roueche and two others in February 2007 when the group was targeted in a shooting after leaving a downtown Vancouver nightclub around 5 a.m.
One of the FK members was paralyzed after being shot in the head.
Also that February, Chilliwack resident Clayton Eheler, identified in court documents this week as a Bacon associate at the time, was shot near his house as he drove with a woman and a young child. He survived.
Wooding said that minutes later Chilliwack RCMP pulled over Roueche’s van, driven by another UN member with a Calgary FK gangster inside. The assault rifle used in the shooting was never located, though a Glock was found in a secret compartment in the vehicle. No charges were ever laid.
Later that year when the FK’s Mark Kim was shot to death in Calgary, Roueche arranged for another member of the gang wounded the same night to get treatment in B.C.
He also made sure he was at Kim’s funeral in Calgary a few days later.
Tran also agreed in 2007 to forfeit to the B.C. government more than $240,000 in suspected drug profits found in his vehicle when he was stopped in Vancouver 18 months earlier.
The agreed statement of facts entered in B.C. Supreme Court as part of the UN guilty pleas says that Roueche first turned to the FK for help killing the Bacons “in late 2007/early 2008.”
The statement also details some of the efforts of Ly, Tran and the UN to kill their enemies. Between January and May 2008, both Tran and Ly were with UN conspirators as they scouted out the Mission house of Bacon associate Dennis Karbovanec hoping to shoot him.
Roueche was captured on wiretap talking about Tran and Ly as the “C-town guys” and said they were more willing to proceed with public shootings.
“The C-town guys, they’re f—king anywhere, anytime. Boom, boom, boom,” said Roueche, who is serving a 30-year U.S. sentence for drug smuggling and money laundering.
Hours before Barber was shot to death on Kingsway after picking up a Bacon vehicle to install speakers, Tran and Ly were involved in another Burnaby shooting. They were in one UN vehicle that was shot at by another car full of UN members who mistook their allies’ car for a vehicle belonging to their rivals. Ly was hit in the shoulder.
Even then, he didn’t abandon the mission on behalf of his UN brethren.
He was still hunting for the Bacons with Barzan Tilli-Choli outside a Lil Wayne concert at GM Place in January 2009.
A wiretap captured Ly giving advice to Tilli-Choli to “unload the whole thing” — a reference to emptying the clip if he came upon the Bacons’ rented limo. Police stopped the UN conspirators before they could act.
Both Tran and Ly remain in Calgary. Ly was arrested last month at Vancouver airport on aggravated assault charges out of Calgary.
CFSEU Sgt. Lindsey Houghton said Friday that “it should come as no surprise to people that gangsters here in B.C. are using criminal connections from outside the province to do their dirty work.
“It happens regularly and you even see B.C. gangsters going to other parts of Canada to do dirty work,” he said.
CFSEU anti-gang officers have been at the Calgary Stampede this month “because we know B.C. gangsters go there to not only holiday, but to do their business,” Houghton said.
“So we are there working with our Alberta counterparts to find them and keep track of them and hopefully prevent any violence from happening there,” he said.

The, "C Town Guys" notice the gang flashes occasionally in this clip...

 
Tim Chan,Killer, Clayton Roueche Associate