Fugitive Gangster Sentenced for B.C. Gang War

0:00A man tied to one of British Columbia's bloodiest gang wars just got hit with a 15-year prison sentence for plotting to murder the bacon. Brothers. Conor Demonte, linked to the United Nations gang, copped a guilty plea last October on that conspiracy charge from the 2008-2009 conflict with the rival Red Scorpions. That war lit up the lower mainland, turning streets into battlegrounds, and putting whole communities at risk with non-stop violence. Demonte bolted after charges dropped in 2011, hit out as one of Canada's top fugitives, then got nabbed in Puerto Rico, back in February, 2022, before extradition here, in March, 2024. Meanwhile, locals there knew him as a do-gooder, running Christmas drives for kids, fixing schools, and even pushing honeybee rescues after Hurricane Maria. But the other murder charge against him for killing a Red Scorpions member got stayed after this sentencing, closing one chapter on that dark, era for good.

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