A gangster who was recently living under 24-hour police protection in Port Moody has pleaded building to three counts of second-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder.

The RCMP has announced in a news release that Dennis Richard Karbonovec, 27, pleaded guilty to murdering 22-year-old Surrey resident Christopher Mohan, 19-year-old Surrey resident Ryan Bartolomeo, and 26-year-old Surrey resident Michael Lal.

Mohan was an innocent person who was shot in a drug-related  gangland slaying of six people on the 15th floor of a Surrey condominium tower in October, 2007.

Karbonovec, an associate of the Bacon brothers, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder of 21-year-old Surrey resident Corey Lal.

Karbonovec has been linked to the Red Scorpions gang, which police say has been involved in a  drug war with the United Nations gang.

Also named in the conspiracy was 23-year-old James Kyle Bacon of Abbotsford and 24-year-old Cody Ray Haevischer of Nanaimo.