Fugitive Gets 15 Years for Plotting Bacon Brothers Hit

0:00It's April 2nd. This has been Cooper News today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. A Canadian fugitive, once topping the most wanted list, just got hit with a 15-year sentence for plotting to take out the Bacon Brothers over 15 years back. Connor Demonce pleaded guilty to his part in the scheme, but with time already served, he's looking at under eight more years behind bars. Earlier this week in court, details came out on his role. He tracked the brothers' moves, passed on descriptions, and licensed place to the UN gang, and hooked them up with encrypted blackberry phones. Demonce bolted in 2011, hit in Puerto Rico under a fake name for 11 years, even with a $100,000 bounty on his, head until cops nabbed him in 2022. Friends, family, and folks from Puerto Rico wrote 10 support letters, praising his charity work like saving honeybee populations and toy drives for. Kids, the 47-year-old spoke up in court, denying he was ever a full-game member, just someone

1:01who helped out back then, and shared deeper morse. After years of rethinking his life from his 20s, the judge highlighted how the UN gang versus red scorpions wore wrecked communities with murders, shootings, and innocent folks caught in the crossfire, but she greenlit the joint sentence recommendation as fair for everyone. With this wrapped up, a separate murder charge from arrivals killing got stayed, closing the long chapter on that violent era.