Accused UN gang killer told undercover cop he’s innocent
Accused United Nations gang killer Cory Vallee told an undercover cop planted in his jail cell in 2014 that he was innocent of all the charges he faced.
The secretly recorded conversation occurred on Aug. 17, 2014, the same day Vallee was escorted back to Canada from Mexico.
In it, Vallee tells the cop — whose identity is shielded by a publication ban — that he had been charged with two murders, as well as attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
“And on the form it says I’m being investigating for three more,” Vallee explained.
The cop expressed shock: “No f---king way. Seriously?”
“Yep,” Vallee said. “When they read out the charges, I said, ‘That’s it?’ ”
He said the police officers then “looked at me and they laughed.”
But Vallee also told the cop, who was posing as a criminal arrested at Vancouver airport, that he was not guilty of any of the charges.
“I am innocent. I didn’t do them,” he said. “I don’t have anything to worry about.”
He said he held a regular job his whole adult life before taking off to Mexico, fearing police were about to arrest him.
“Not many people who get charged with gang stuff have a job and go to work every day,” Vallee said. “I used to work for the city. I used to drive a garbage truck.”
The recorded conversation, which lasted several hours, is being played on video for B.C. Supreme Court Justice Janice Dillon at Vallee’s murder trial.
Vallee’s lawyer Tony Paisana is challenging the admissibility of the conversation, alleging his client’s Charter rights were violated.
Vallee was originally charged with the May 2008 murder of stereo installer Jonathan Barber, the attempted murder of Barber’s girlfriend, conspiracy to kill the Bacons, as well as the February 2009 murder of Bacon associate Kevin LeClair.
Both the Barber murder charge and the attempted murder charge were recently dropped by the Crown.