The UN Gang/Vancouver: Chinese Connection

 Clay Roueche/UN Gang Leader
 

Based out of Chilliwack, a community neighbouring Abbotsford, the United Nations (a reference to the gang’s inclusivity to all ethnic backgrounds) was founded by Clay Roueche, who, if maybe a tad more blue collar than the Bacons, also originated from middle class surroundings. Rolling Stone recently featured him in a six-page article, dubbing Clay as a Pablo Escobar of BC bud and a guy who “changed the marijuana game forever.” He’s the only white guy to ever be a full patch member of the Triads. Roueche also had close ties with a Chinese man who went to jail for murdering a guy in Niagara Falls, with two daggers, while dressed in a ninja outfit.

With a “this Fraser Valley ain’t big enough for the two of us” attitude, The Red Scorpions and UN engaged in an all-out, very public war. Numerous targeted murders led to Abbotsford being temporarily known as Canada’s murder capital. Jamie and Jonathan survived numerous assassination attempts (including one in the driveway of their parents’ house), and in 2007 the well documented "Surrey Six" massacre—where two innocent witnesses were brought into an apartment and shot to death, along with four UN gang members—brought the lower mainland’s gang warfare into the national consciousness and the Bacon brothers a long way away from their suburban roots.