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\u2019s 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 bail last month, says U.S. prosecutors have a strong case against Chapman.<\/p>\n
And he says releasing him on bail would undermine public confidence in the justice system.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile he did not pull the trigger, he knew the purpose of the work he was assigned was the murder,\u201d the judge said in a written decision Friday.<\/p>\n
But one of Chapman\u2019s lawyers, Chad Haggerty, indicated in court Friday that they intend to ask for a review of the decision. A date for a bail review is expected to be set March 20.<\/p>\n
Haggerty said the original authority to proceed requesting Chapman\u2019s extradition had been amended to just conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n
The amended request was dated last month.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Minister of Justice of Canada authorizes the Attorney General of Canada to proceed before the Court of King\u2019s Bench of Alberta to seek an order for the committal of Allistair Curtis Chapman \u2026 who is sought for prosecution by the United States of America. The Canadian offence which corresponds to the alleged conduct is conspiracy to commit murder,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n
Chapman was originally charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to retaliate against a witness and other organized crime offences.<\/p>\n
Another accused, Rasheed Pascua Hossain, who was arrested on charges related to cocaine trafficking and money laundering, was released on bail in Vancouver in December and allowed to live in Calgary. He also appeared in court Friday and his matter has been put over until April 23.<\/p>\n
Wedding was arrested earlier this year in Mexico and transferred to California. He had been on the FBI\u2019s most-wanted list.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawyers for a Calgary man arrested on extradition warrants connected to accused Canadian drug kingpin Ryan Wedding will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-536191","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\/536191","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=536191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}