Roger Coles is a former Canadian

Canada

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 politician, who represented the electoral district

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 of Tatchun in the Yukon Legislative Assembly

Yukon Legislative Assembly

-History:From 1900 to 1978, the elected legislative body in the Yukon was the Yukon Territorial Council, a ten-member body which did not act as the primary government, but was a non-partisan advisory body to the Commissioner of the Yukon...

 from 1985 to 1986. He was a member of the Yukon Liberal Party

Yukon Liberal Party

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, and the party's leader from 1984 to 1986.

He resigned his position as leader on May 9, 1986 after being arrested and charged with selling cocaine

Cocaine

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to an undercover police officer. He subsequently resigned his seat in the legislature on October 31 after pleading guilty to cocaine trafficking, and was sentenced to three years in prison.