<\/p>\nShe emphasized that “drugs are killing our kids,” and the U.S. would pursue both street-level drug dealers and international drug kingpins. <\/p>\n
“We are coming for you. We will find you. And you will be accountable and held to justice for your crimes,” Bondi said. <\/p>\n
She said he is responsible for importing 60 metric tonnes a year into Los Angeles via semi-trailer trucks from Mexico.<\/p>\n
Bondi added that over the course of the investigation, more than 35 people have been indicted.<\/p>\n
She noted that more than 2,000 kilograms of cocaine and numerous weapons have been seized and about $3.2 million in cryptocurrency was recovered.<\/p>\n
She also said $13 million in physical assets have been confiscated.<\/p>\n
‘Modern-day’ Pablo Escobar<\/p>\n
FBI director Kash Patel likened Wedding to a \u201cmodern-day iteration\u201d of Pablo Escobar and Joaquin \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzman and implored citizens to report information they may have on the accused.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Patel said Wedding is responsible for \u201cengineering a narco-trafficking and narco-terrorism program that we have not seen in a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patel added that the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI will \u201clead the effort to go out there and make sure that these animals are brought to justice.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the news conference, RCMP commissioner Duheme said there had been good co-operation between law enforcement across borders but added, “our work is not done.”<\/p>\n
“Fugitive Ryan Wedding remains one of the top threats to Canadian public safety,” he said. <\/p>\n
In another development related to the case, according to Radio-Canada, Atna Onha, 40, who goes by the name Tupac or 2-Pac, appeared in Montreal court by videoconference on Tuesday and is facing extradition to the U.S.<\/p>\n
He is facing charges related to a murder and cocaine trafficking, but the details of the charges against him have been sealed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He is reported to have ties to biker gangs and the Mafia in Montreal, according to Radio-Canada sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-293718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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