UN gang members plead guilty to drug charges

An undated police surveillance photo shows UN gang member Doug Vanalstine having a coffee outside a fast-food outlet.

VANCOUVER -- B.C. police say the co-founder of a criminal gang and another gang member have pleaded guilty to drug charges after getting caught in a police sting.

Fifty-two-year-old Douglas Edward Vanalstine, formerly of Kelowna, and 33-year-old Daryl Robert Johnson of Abbotsford admitted to trafficking in cocaine after an undercover officer sold fake packages of the drug to the pair in 2009.

Police say Vanalstine was considered a co-founder of the United Nations gang along with Clay Roueche, the former UN gang leader now in jail in the United States on drug charges.

Vanalstine and Johnson were targeted by an undercover investigation conducted by a special anti-gang squad called the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, which also investigated members of the notorious Bacon family of Abbotsford.

During that investigation, 29-year-old Jarrod Bacon and 56-year-old Wayne Scott were arrested and later found guilty of conspiracy to traffic in cocaine, with Bacon getting a 12-year sentence.

Bacon's brother, Jonathon, was shot and killed outside a Kelowna hotel a year ago in a targeted attack.