Mounties discredit Rolling Stone article on UN gangster
Posted May 16, 2013 5:01 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – More fiction than fact — that’s what Mounties here are saying about a new Rolling Stone feature on United Nations gangster Clayton Roueche.
The article, titled “Boss Weed: The gangster who changed the pot game” compares the man to Pablo Escobar, saying he professionalized the drug trade here in BC.
“The mention about being a reincarnated samurai…we don’t think that has any place in the media, especially when people are dying in Canada and the United States as a result of drugs and the violence related to that,” says Sergeant Lindsay Houghton with the Combined Special Forces Enforcement Unit.
Houghton says it discredits the seriousness of the crimes committed by Roueche and glorifies the gang lifestyle. “We would hope that articles written about convicted gang members who were the undisputed leader of gangs that were involved with many murders here in the Lower Mainland, would do the opposite.”
In an interview from prison in Florida where Roueche is sentenced to 30 years for drug smuggling and money laundering, he talks about wanting to be the biggest drug dealer in Canada and making history.
