Notorious gangster Jarrod Bacon and his former father-in-law Wayne Scott were found guilty in B.C. Supreme Court Friday of conspiring to traffic cocaine back in 2009.

Justice Austin Cullen said the Crown had proven that during an undercover sting the two Abbotsford men agreed to purchase up to 100 kilos of cocaine from a police agent for as much as $3 million.

And Cullen said Bacon's testimony last month that he, alone, planned to rip off the drugs without paying the agent dubbed GL was demonstrably false.

"There are a number of inconsistencies and logical flaws in the story advanced by Bacon," Cullen said in his lengthy reasons for judgment, read out over two hours.

"I do not accept Bacon's evidence as truthful or capable of raising a reasonable doubt about the existence of a conspiracy."

And he said when Bacon took the stand in his own defence, "he was at times evasive in his answers and at times confrontational and argumentative."

Other evidence during the four-month trial contradicted many of Bacon's assertions under oath, Cullen said.

He claimed to only be an enforcer and not a drug dealer, yet demonstrated his "knowledge of the drug world" in his meetings with GL and Scott about the cocaine.

He knew the lingo, the hand signals, the prices and the trade, Cullen said.

Bacon also claimed in court that he often wrote mundane things on a green eraser board, so his use of it during a video-taped meeting with GL was not at all "sinister."

Yet Cullen noted other testimony from Bacon where he said: "I am not exactly a Boy Scout here. I am a criminal and sometimes I talk about criminal things and I would do that so I would use a board so nobody else could hear what was going on."

Cullen said there was also enough evidence to convict Scott, 55, despite his lawyer claiming he was only facilitating meetings between GL and Bacon and not a party to the conspiracy.

On the contrary, Cullen said Scott passed messages between the parties, allowed his house to be used, came up with plans for the delivery of cash and cocaine, and was to receive a commission from the deal.

The pair was arrested in November 2009 after the undercover investigation by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU).

The case centred on 27 intercepted telephone calls and meetings between GL and Scott and Bacon in the summer of 2009.

Defence lawyers for both Bacon and Scott had argued that the evidence of GL should be rejected as he was a long-time cocaine smuggler who approached police so he could earn enough to retire.

Cullen accepted that GL was of "unsavory character" and motivated by money. But he said there was enough corroborating evidence to convict each of the accused.

Bacon appeared by video-link from the Surrey pre-trial jail for the verdict. Scott was in court in person.

He was not taken into custody because his lawyer Jeremy Guild said he planned to make an application that his client was entrapped, meaning the verdict would be set aside.

Bacon's lawyer Jeffrey Ray said he would need time to consider whether to join the entrapment application.

The case has been put over to Wednesday at 2 p.m.

Outside court, Supt. Pat Fog-arty of the CFSEU said he was pleased with the ruling.

"It is all about clarity - clarity of conspiracy law," Fogarty said. "A lot of what we do centres around conspiracies. And it is always good to know where the courts lie on conspiracy so that we can follow that lead. We are agents of the state and it is what the courts tell us is the rule of law which we have to follow."

He said that when GL approached police in early 2009, they saw an opportunity to investigate.

"I would never say that Jarrod Bacon would be a target because of his notoriety, but on the basis of the evidence and the intelligence that we had, and the opportunity - often times these things are opportunities - we capitalized on that opportunity, and here we are today."

He said at the time of the sting there was a lot of violence across the Lower Main-land resulting from a gang war between the Bacon group and their enemies in the United Nations gang.

"If you look at where we are now, many of these people are either prosecuted or before the courts," Fogarty said. "This is just one level of completion in terms of providing that level of safety to the Abbotsford community in this case, but more so in the Lower Mainland too to alleviate this gang stuff."

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