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One of the founders of a notorious B.C. gang has been resentenced to 30 years in a U.S. prison on drug charges, restoring an earlier sentence that was overturned on appeal.
Clay Roueche the founder of the United Nations Gang, was sentenced in a Seattle court after pleading guilty to conspiracy to export cocaine, conspiracy to import marijuana and conspiracy to engage in money laundering.
Roueche, 35, had initially been handed a 30-year sentence in December, but an appeal court ordered the judge to hold a second sentencing hearing and clarify the evidence he considered.
Judge Robert Lasnik elaborated in his ruling Tuesday that Roueche led a major criminal organization and that its drug trafficking and money laundering has inevitably led to violence.
Roueche was arrested in May 2008 in Texas after he was turned away from the Mexican border.
He pleaded guilty in April 2009, admitting that since 2005 he conspired with others to export cocaine from the U.S. into Canada and conspired to import B.C. marijuana into the U.S.
