{"id":668758,"date":"2026-05-14T11:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668758\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:08:24","slug":"calgary-man-charged-in-ryan-wedding-case-loses-bail-review-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668758\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary man charged in Ryan Wedding case loses bail review \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

CALGARY \u2013 A Calgary man arrested on extradition warrants connected to accused drug kingpin Ryan Wedding is to remain behind bars.<\/p>\n

A judge had denied bail in February for Allistair Chapman, saying U.S. prosecutors have a strong case against him and releasing him would undermine the public\u2019s confidence in the justice system.<\/p>\n

Chapman appealed, but Justice Colin Feasby says the original decision to deny bail was correct.<\/p>\n

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Chapman and nine others were arrested last year in an FBI investigation into a billion-dollar international drug trafficking organization allegedly run by Wedding.<\/p>\n

Wedding is a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder.<\/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

Chapman\u2019s lawyers requested the bail review, arguing the extradition request has been amended to one charge of conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n

He was originally charged with other offences including conspiracy to retaliate against a witness and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe remaining conspiracy to commit murder charge is very serious, carrying with it the possibility of a life sentence,\u201d Feasby said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that the (authority to proceed) now identifies only conspiracy to commit murder as an analogous Canadian offence is not a material change in circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 13, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2013 A Calgary man arrested on extradition warrants connected to accused drug kingpin Ryan Wedding is to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-668758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668758","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=668758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}