An accused complicity in a $ 1 billion drug allegedly led by former Canadian Olympic Snowboarder Ryan Wedding has been brought to the United States from Mexico to face federal charges, the US Justice Department announced on Friday in a release delivered to Pakinomist Digital.
Andrew Clark, 34, a Canadian citizen who lived in Mexico, was arrested by Mexican authorities in October 2024 and is scheduled to be arranged on Monday at the US District Court in Arizona.
“The defendant, as described in it replacing the indictment, played a key role in running a violent, international drug trafficking, who was responsible for several murders,” said US lawyer Joseph T. McNally in Friday’s announcement.
“We are grateful to have him in the United States where he will face justice. When the law enforcement authorities all over the globe work together, there is nowhere criminals can hide.”
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A picture of the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan wedding, 43, who is a refugee and is accused of driving and participating in a transnational drug trafficking, appear on a video surveillance along with bricks of cocaine, the foreground, during a news conference at FBI offices in Los Angeles 17 October, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Clark’s aliases include “The Dictator,” and he has allegedly controlled a $ 1 billion drug -out with supply routes that transported tons of cocaine from Colombia to Canada using Mexico and Southern California.
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Cocaine (Marcus Brandt/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
Wedding, competing in the winter -ol in 2002 in Salt Lake City for Canada, is facing drug trafficking in Canada dating back to 2015, said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather.
Wedding was previously convicted in the United States of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and he was sentenced to prison in 2010, according to federal registers.
According to the replaced prosecution, wedding and Clark allegedly the murders of two people and the murder attempt at a third victim in Ontario, Canada, in November 2023. Wedding and Clark also allegedly ordered the murder of a fourth individual in May 2024.
Clark and another co -defendant are also indicted for the murder of a fifth person in Ontario, Canada, in April 2024.
Canada’s Ryan wedding in the 2002 Olympics. (Tony Marshall/Empics via Getty Images)
From March 2024 to August 2024 conspired wedding and Clark allegedly with others to distribute more than 1,800 kg of cocaine. Wedding, Clark and their co-conspirators also reportedly transferred about a quarter of a billion dollars from April 2024 to September 2024. Investigators seized more than $ 3 million from a cryptocurrency-teger on a single day.
Clark is the second named defendant in the compensation that accuses a total of 16 defendants. With Clark’s expected court appearance, a total of eight defendants have been arranged in this case. The lawsuit against Clark’s alleged co -conspiracy is scheduled to begin on May 6th.
