An accused confederate in a $1 billion drug ring allegedly led by former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Marriage ceremony has been dropped at the U.S. from Mexico to face federal costs, the U.S. Justice Division introduced Friday in a launch supplied to Fox Information Digital.Â
Andrew Clark, 34, a Canadian citizen who was residing in Mexico, was arrested by Mexican authorities in October 2024 and is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in U.S. District Court docket in Arizona.Â
“The defendant, as described within the superseding indictment, performed a key function in working a violent, worldwide drug trafficking group that was chargeable for a number of murders,” Performing U.S. Legal professional Joseph T. McNally stated in Friday’s announcement.Â
“We’re grateful to have him in the USA the place he’ll face justice. When regulation enforcement officers across the globe work collectively, there may be nowhere criminals can disguise.”
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A picture of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Marriage ceremony, 43, who’s a fugitive and has been charged with working and collaborating in a transnational drug trafficking operation, is displayed on a video monitor together with bricks of cocaine, foreground, throughout a information convention on the FBI workplaces in Los Angeles Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photograph/Damian Dovarganes)
Clark’s aliases embrace “The Dictator,” and he allegedly managed a $1 billion drug enterprise with provide routes that transported tons of cocaine from Colombia to Canada by means of Mexico and Southern California. Â
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Cocaine (Marcus Brandt/image alliance through Getty Photographs)
Marriage ceremony, who competed within the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake Metropolis for Canada, faces drug trafficking costs in Canada that date again to 2015, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather-based stated.
Marriage ceremony was beforehand convicted within the U.S. of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and he was sentenced to jail in 2010, in line with federal information.Â
In line with the superseding indictment, Marriage ceremony and Clark allegedly directed the murders of two people and the tried homicide of a 3rd sufferer in Ontario, Canada, in November 2023. Marriage ceremony and Clark additionally allegedly ordered the homicide of a fourth particular person in Could 2024.Â
Clark and one other co-defendant are additionally charged with the homicide of a fifth particular person in Ontario, Canada, in April 2024.
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Canada’s Ryan Marriage ceremony within the 2002 Olympics. (Tony Marshall/EMPICS through Getty Photographs)
From March 2024 to August 2024, Marriage ceremony and Clark allegedly conspired with others to distribute greater than 1,800 kilograms of cocaine. Marriage ceremony, Clark, and their co-conspirators additionally allegedly transferred roughly 1 / 4 of a billion {dollars} from April 2024 to September 2024. Investigators seized greater than $3 million from one cryptocurrency pockets in a single day.
Clark is the second named defendant within the superseding indictment that costs a complete of 16 defendants. With Clark’s anticipated courtroom look, a complete of eight defendants may have been arraigned on this case. The trial of Clark’s alleged co-conspirators is scheduled to start Could 6.
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