{"id":535661,"date":"2026-03-14T10:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535661\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T10:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:09:42","slug":"lawyers-for-calgary-man-involved-in-ryan-wedding-case-to-seek-a-review-of-bail-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535661\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers for Calgary man involved in Ryan Wedding case to seek a review of bail denial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lawyers for a Calgary man arrested on extradition warrants connected to accused Canadian drug kingpin Ryan Wedding will be applying for a review of a decision denying him bail.<\/p>\n

Allistair Chapman, 33, and nine others were arrested last year in an FBI investigation into a billion-dollar international drug trafficking organization allegedly run by Wedding in Mexico, Colombia, Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n

U.S. prosecutors allege Chapman helped arrange the killing of an FBI informant by providing the man’s photo to a co-accused and paying for it to be posted online.<\/p>\n

The informant was later shot dead at a restaurant in Colombia.<\/p>\n

Justice Paul Jeffrey, who denied Chapman bail last month, says U.S. prosecutors have a strong case against him.<\/p>\n

And Jeffrey says releasing him on bail would undermine public confidence in the justice system.<\/p>\n

“While he did not pull the trigger, he knew the purpose of the work he was assigned was the murder,” the judge said in a written decision Friday.<\/p>\n

But one of Chapman’s lawyers, Chad Haggerty, indicated in court Friday the defence intends to ask for a review of the decision. A date for a bail review is expected to be set March 20.<\/p>\n

\"ACanadian Ryan Wedding, 44, was arrested in Mexico City and is now in custody in the U.S. (Federal Bureau of Investigation)<\/p>\n

Outside court, Haggerty said the original authority to proceed requesting Chapman’s extradition had been amended to just conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n

He said that doesn’t mean the U.S. justice department won’t still proceed with prosecuting Chapman on other organized crime offences.<\/p>\n

Wedding was arrested earlier this year in Mexico and transferred to California. He had been on the FBI’s most-wanted list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-535661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535661","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=535661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}