A Coquitlam car company is suing a slew of gangsters, including all three Bacon brothers, alleging they falsified leases, missed payments and damaged vehicles that were targeted in shootings or illegally armoured.
Four Star Auto Lease Ltd. filed the suit in New Westminster Supreme Court during the summer against Jonathan, Jarrod and Jamie Bacon, their former associate Dennis Karbovanec and some of their one-time girlfriends.
The suit says the defendants violated the terms of the leasing agreements by "failing to maintain insurance over the vehicles, directly altering numerous of the vehicles to render these uninsurable in the province of British Columbia, permitting or otherwise allowing the vehicles to be destroyed or destroyed to such an extent they are deemed irreparable, failing to make payment as they become due and upon demand, and giving false or misleading information when applying for the leases."
The company is seeking general, aggravated, punitive and special damages.
It also claims the Bacons and Carly Cristin Scott modified the vehicles "in such a manner as to render them unsaleable and uninsurable in the Province of British Columbia."
No specifics are provided, but Four Star owner Erich Schmidt had earlier reported in the media that the Bacons had sent some of his vehicles to Ontario to have them armoured without permission.
Schmidt did not return phone calls about the suit.
Two of the Bacons, Jamie and Jarrod, remain in pre-trial detention on separate indictments.
Jamie is charged with first-degree murder in the Surrey Six case and Jarrod is facing a charge of conspiracy to traffic cocaine.
Eldest brother Jon is on bail, facing his own series of gun and drug charges.
Karbovanec is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for shooting three of the Surrey Six victims.