40 Facts About Clayton Roueche

Clayton "Clay" Franklin Roueche was born on May 31,1975 and is a Canadian gangster best known for founding the United Nations gang of Vancouver.

Clayton Roueche's family owned a scrapyard and recycling business that made a profit of $1 million per annum.

Clayton Roueche was described as a rambunctious and adventuresome youth who loved camping by the Fraser River and underage drinking in local bars, which he entered with false identity cards.

Clayton Roueche did not wish to follow his father into the scrap business as his father recalled: "If we went out to eat after work, he'd sometimes refuse to get out of the car, because he wouldn't go into a restaurant looking dirty".

Clayton Roueche was first arrested in 1994 after he was seen visiting the home of a drug dealer, but was not charged.

In 1997, Clayton Roueche met James Coulter, who became his best friend.

Clayton Roueche had connections through his Lao Canadian girlfriend with various Asian organized crime figures in Vancouver, and soon began to sell drugs to Coutler and his friends.

Clayton Roueche began to work for a Vietnamese organized crime figure known as Vu.

Clayton Roueche came to be fascinated by the Japanese concept of kaizen, and under the influence of Buddhism believed he was a reincarnated samurai.

Clayton Roueche began to sell drugs for Vu, which made him a profit of about $1,000 per day.

Clayton Roueche was typical of the gangsters in the Lower Mainland in coming from a middle-class family with loving parents, which was not the norm in the rest of Canada where the gangsters tended to come from working-class families and broken homes.

Clayton Roueche discovered that the Kootenays region was where most of the marijuana in British Columbia was grown and starting in 1997 began to export marijuana to the United States.

Clayton Roueche made an offer to the best growers of marijuana in the Kootenays, offering to pay generously even if the crop was seized by the police or ruined by an early frost, provided the growers sold exclusive to him.

Clayton Roueche came to be the most successful and wealthiest marijuana dealer in British Columbia.

Clayton Roueche opened up grow-ops all over Abbotsford to grow marijuana.

Clayton Roueche became the principal player in smuggling marijuana into the United States, smuggling about 20 tons of marijuana per annum usually by helicopter, making a profit of about $120 million US dollars.

In 1998, Clayton Roueche moved into a house in Abbotsford with his girlfriend.

Clayton Roueche was the object of an assassination attempt, being shot at while eating at a restaurant.

Clayton Roueche believed he survived because of the Buddhist prayer beads he had with him at the time, inspiring him to convert to Buddhism.

Clayton Roueche crafted for himself a philosophy based upon the various Asian martial arts films he had seen.

Clayton Roueche opened up a new restaurant called the Millennium Cafe and purchased real estate all over the Fraser river valley.

Clayton Roueche was described by the American journalist Jesse Hyde as a muscular man with his body covered with elaborate Asian-themed tattoos who somewhat incongruously wore glasses.

Clayton Roueche adopted his wife's daughter by a previous marriage and fathered two more daughters.

Clayton Roueche's marriage came to be a strained one as his wife flew into rages over various issues.

Clayton Roueche came to be involved in a feud with the Bacon brothers for the control of the drug trade.

Plante recorded Punko as saying that Clayton Roueche had hired David Giles, a "full patch" member of the Angels East End chapter, to work as a debt collector by beating up two drug dealers who were in arrears to him.

In late 2005, Clayton Roueche spoke with a police informer, Ken Davis, about his plans to have Davis take US$500,000 to California to buy 25 kilograms of cocaine to smuggle into Canada.

Clayton Roueche spoke about his wish to have Davis recruit some street level drug dealers in San Jose to work for the UN gang.

Clayton Roueche further wanted Davis to recruit American truck drivers to sell ecstasy and BC Bud marijuana in Texas, saying he found some clients in the Lone Star State.

Clayton Roueche was unhappy with Davis, saying he was taking too long to go to Los Angeles and that if he did not move faster on his next trip, he would send down some thugs to Seattle to beat Davis up.

In October 2007, Clayton Roueche was convicted of assault after he beat another man at a party.

Sometime in late 2007 or early 2008, Clayton Roueche recruited Ly and Tran of the Fresh Off the Boat Killers to come to the Lower Mainland to kill the Bacon brothers.

The police in the United States started an investigation of Clayton Roueche code-named Project Frozen Timber.

Clayton Roueche's passport showed that he frequently visited Vietnam, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Lebanon, Thailand, Macao and Hong Kong, but most notably he never visited the United States.

In May 2008, Clayton Roueche went to Mexico to attend a wedding.

Clayton Roueche was charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and marijuana into the United States and was denied bail.

In what was described as "bold move" designed to discredit the claims of the prosecution that he was a millionaire, Clayton Roueche claimed to be unable to afford an attorney and asked for a public defender to represent him.

On December 15,2009, Clayton Roueche was sentenced in Seattle to 30 years in prison.

In May 2010, Clayton Roueche attracted media attention when it was learned that he using his Facebook profile to sell his artwork as he took to painting Asian-themed paintings in his prison cell, which he sold for a premium on the internet.

Clayton Roueche has made further attempts at getting his sentence reduced or to be released early.