Two Indo-Canadian women were among those arrested in 2005, resulting in busting of United Nations, an international drug gang led by Clay Roueche, according to U.S. court documents filed for his sentencing hearing.

Sharmila Kumar, 37 and Shailen Varma,25, both from Vancouver,BC — were picked up at Soap Lake with drugs flown from Canada to US. The drugs were dropped by a floatplane in the Soap lake in Okanogan Officers impounded an SUV and found almost 325 pounds of packaged marijuana inside, worth about $1.5 million.

There arrests were just one of the series as RCMP and US officials followed some of Roueche’s associates. But while the arrests were being made Roueche managed to evade capture and continued to run the lucrative smuggling business. The drug lord was finally arrested just last year.

UN is reported to have been founded by Clay Roueche, and several friends in the Fraser Valley in May 1997. The gang with its numbers close to 100 is closely aligned with other groups in different regions of Canada and major centres has national and international connections.