Court documents reveal new details about U.S. probe into ex-Canadian Olympian accused of running drug trafficking ring
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U.S. authorities earlier this year knew the whereabouts of a former Canadian Olympian who is now on the run for allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking ring and orchestrating murders in Ontario, according to Ontario court documents.
U.S. authorities earlier this year knew the whereabouts of a former Canadian Olympian who is now on the run for allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking ring and orchestrating murders in Ontario, according to Ontario court documents.
A statement of facts included in an extradition court application laid out new details about the U.S. investigation into a drug trafficking organization allegedly led by Ryan Wedding.
The 43-year-old, who competed for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, is one of the 16 defendants named in a superseding indictment unsealed earlier this month, which alleges that the group was running what authorities described as a transnational drug trafficking operation.
Wedding remains at large while Andrew Clark, a Canadian resident who was described as the “second in command” in the statement of facts, was arrested in Mexico on Oct. 8.
According to the document, Wedding and Clark met with a “cooperating witness” who worked with them for more than a decade and agreed to assist U.S. authorities as they gathered evidence against the drug trafficking group.
The document stated that the witness also met with other group members in person as well as communicating with them using an encrypted messaging app called Threema.
In their communications between February and April 2024, the documents allege that the group talked about transporting large quantities of cocaine.
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