Guramrit Sidhu, 62, of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty in a plea deal with Los Angeles prosecutors for heading a sophisticated network of truck drivers moving narcotics from L.A. into Canada
To move bulk quantities of cocaine and fentanyl from stash houses around Los Angeles into his native Canada, accused narco kingpin Ryan Wedding, a hulking former Olympian known as “the Giant” in international crime circles, relied heavily on a sophisticated transportation network of Punjabi truck drivers.
On Thursday, federal prosecutors announced that the leader of that truck hauling network, Guramrit Sidhu, 62, a Brampton, Ontario crime figure whose own moniker is “King,” pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise. The guilty plea from Sidhu marks a plea deal from another high-ranking member of Wedding’s purported sprawling narco empire.
His childhood friend and consiglieri, Andrew Clark, who was scooped up in the fall of 2024 by Mexican military officials in a dramatic raid, has also agreed to cooperate against his criminal compatriot Wedding, according to court records.
Andrew Clark was taken into custody by the Mexican military in Oct. 2024 as his buddy Ryan Wedding continued to live large Credit: Law Enforcement Source/Los Angeles file photo
Sidhu’s guilty plea comes as federal prosecutors in Los Angeles, who have filed two sweeping separate indictments against Ryan Wedding in connection with what they say is his running of a murderous transnational criminal empire that required him to partner with the world’s most notorious underworld figures, argue that witnesses need to be protected at all costs.
Among the charges Wedding – who was captured in Mexico City earlier this year as one of the FBI’s Most Wanted criminals, one with a $15 million bounty on his head – is facing is ordering the execution of a witness against him, Jonathan Acebedo Garcia, a Colombian-born drug connection who was tracked and killed by a team of sicarios in January 2025. This week, Los Angeles reported that the target was spotted in a Canadian reggaeton star’s video, which prompted Wedding to offer up $5 million to anyone who could take him out.
Ryan Wedding arrives in Ontario, Canada flanked by FBI Special Agent in Charge for Los Angeles, Akil Davis, and agentsCredit: FBI
There were, according to federal prosecutors, plenty of takers, including several women who operate in Wedding’s orbit, who included a Mexico City madam, a Florida sex worker, a wife and a girlfriend.
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Ryan Wedding’s wife, Miryam Andrea Castillo Moreno (Castillo), girlfriend Daniela Alejandra Acuna Macias (Acuna), and madam Carmen Yelinet Valoyes Florez (Valoyes)Credit: Department of Treasury
Sidhu’s elaborate network of drivers moving drugs began to unravel in 2022 when Garcia began to cooperate with federal officials working on a case against Wedding’s narco empire. That informant negotiated with Sidhu and his network, according to an indictment, to have truck drivers meet him at stash houses across the L.A. area. There, they used a coded system connected to a serial number on U.S. currency.
An informant working with federal officials helped make this 2022 drug bust in Rancho Cucamonga connected to a Punjabi truck driver gang, according to an indictment Credit: Department of Justice
In his guilty plea, Sidhu admitted to leading “an organization responsible for trafficking drugs” into Canada, which, prosecutors say, included, in “a single month in 2022,” eight separate drug loads, totaling approximately 523 kilograms of methamphetamine and 347 kilograms of cocaine, which law enforcement seized. The seized drugs were worth about $17 million, prosecutors say.