Richard Jansen,B.C. trucker caught as part of a multi-million dollar drug smuggling ring linked to the Hells Angels pleaded guilty

B.C. trucker caught as part of a multi-million dollar drug smuggling ring linked to the Hells Angels pleaded guilty in a Seattle courtroom Thursday.Chilliwack resident Richard Jansen, 33, admitted he used his Scorpion Transport company to truck 158 kilos of B.C. bud across the border last June 5.The drug shipment was just one load from more than 1,700 pounds of cocaine, 7,000 pounds of pot and about $3.5 million U.S. that have been seized by authorities or linked to the drug ring.Jansen will face a minimum of five years and a maximum of 40 when he is sentenced by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Robert S. Lasnik on April 10, the U.S. Attorney’s office said in a release.Jansen was arrested following a three-year investigation into the ring led by Hells Angel associate Robert Shannon, of Maple Ridge, and car dealer Devron Quast, of Abbotsford.Both Shannon and Quast pleaded guilty last fall and are in U.S. custody awaiting their sentencing in March. They will face at least 10 years behind bars each. The indictment said they were the leaders of the international drug gang working "on behalf of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club."The U.S. court has so far not revealed how the Hells Angels is linked to the drug traffickers, but the The Jansen admitted his role was to facilitate the shipment of marijuana by truck across the border. Court files said the drugs were hidden inside hollowed-out logs on trucks, within the false walls of cargo containers and vehicles, within loads of commercial lumber, inside large plastic pipes, and in the interior of a propane tanker.