{"id":566453,"date":"2026-03-28T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566453\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:34:35","slug":"bail-review-set-in-may-for-calgary-man-charged-in-ryan-wedding-case-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566453\/","title":{"rendered":"Bail review set in May for Calgary man charged in Ryan Wedding case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A review of a judge&#8217;s decision to deny bail for a Calgary man 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 include conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\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-566453","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\/566453","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=566453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566453\/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=566453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}