{"id":566167,"date":"2026-03-28T08:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566167\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:27:33","slug":"bail-review-set-in-may-for-calgary-man-charged-in-ryan-wedding-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566167\/","title":{"rendered":"Bail review set in May for\u00a0Calgary\u00a0man charged in Ryan Wedding case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A review of a judge\u2019s decision to deny bail for a\u00a0Calgary\u00a0man arrested on extradition warrants connected to accused drug kingpin Ryan Wedding has been set for May 8.<\/p>\n<p>A judge denied bail in February for Allistair Chapman, saying U.S. prosecutors have a strong case against him.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman and nine others were arrested last year in an FBI investigation into a billion-dollar international drug trafficking organization allegedly run by Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. prosecutors allege Chapman helped arrange the killing of an FBI informant in Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman was originally charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to retaliate against a witness, conspiracy to distribute cocaine and other offences.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers requested the bail review, saying the extradition request has been amended to only conspiracy to commit murder.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A review of a judge\u2019s decision to deny bail for a\u00a0Calgary\u00a0man arrested on extradition warrants connected to accused&hellip;\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-566167","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\/566167","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=566167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566167\/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=566167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}