An accomplice accused in a $ 1 billion drug ring reportedly led by the former Canadian Olympic Snowboarder Ryan Wedding Has been brought to the US from Mexico to face federal charges, the US Department of Justice announced on Friday in a release that was provided to Fox News Digital.
Andrew Clark, 34, a Canadian citizen who lived In Mexicowas arrested by the Mexican authorities in October 2024 and is planned to be charged on Monday in the American court in Arizona.
“The suspect, as described in the replacement indictment, played a key role in running a violent, international organization for drug trafficking that was responsible for several murders,” said acting American lawyer Joseph T. McNally in Friday’s announcement.
“We are grateful that we have him in the United States where he will be confronted with justice. When law enforcement officials work together all over the world, there are nowhere that criminals can hide.”
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An image of the former Canadian Olympic Snowboarder Ryan Wedding, 43, who is a fugitive and is accused of running and participating in a transnational drug trading operation, is displayed on a video monitor together with bricks of cocaine, foreground, during a Los Angelt press conference in FBI. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
The Aliass of Clark include “the dictator”, and he would have checked a $ 1 billion drug company with delivery routes that have transported tons of cocaine from Colombia to Canada via Mexico and South California.
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Cocaine (Marcus Brandt/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
Wedding, who participated in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City for Canada, is confronted with drug trafficking in Canada dating from 2015, said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather.
The marriage was previously convicted in the US for conspiracy to spread cocaine, and he was sentenced to prison in 2010, according to federal data.
According to the replacement indictment, Wedding and Clark reportedly focused the murders of two individuals and the attempted murder of a third victim in Ontario, Canada, in November 2023. Wedding and Clark would also order the murder of a fourth person in May 2024.
Clark and another co -suspect are also accused of the murder of a fifth person in Ontario, Canada, in April 2024.
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Canada’s Ryan Wedding in the 2002 Olympic Games. (Tony Marshall/Empics via Getty images)
From March 2024 to August 2024, Wedding and Clark reportedly collaborated with others to spread more than 1,800 kilograms of cocaine. Wedding, Clark and their fellow samplers would also have transferred around a quarter of a billion dollars from April 2024 to September 2024. Researchers have seized more than $ 3 million in one day of one cryptocurrency wallet.
Clark is the second suspect mentioned in the replacement indictment that charges a total of 16 defendants. With the expected action of Clark, a total of eight defendants will have been presented in this case. The trial against the alleged co-samenwers of Clark is planned to start on 6 May.
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