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Calgary man accused of helping Ryan Wedding set up murder seeking bail

A two-day bail hearing has been set for a Calgary man accused of helping alleged Canadian drug lord Ryan Wedding set up the murder of an FBI informant.

Allistair Chapman, 33, arrested on extradition warrants in November

Meghan Grant · CBC News ·
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RCMP Commissioner Michel Duheme speaks with reporters as Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, left, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, right, listen during a news conference at the Department of Justice, on Nov. 19, 2025, in Washington. (Mark Schiefelbein/The Associated Press)

A two-day bail hearing has been set for a Calgary man accused of helping alleged Canadian drug lord Ryan Wedding set up the murder of an FBI informant. 

Allistair Chapman’s court appearance in Calgary took place Friday morning, at the same time the FBI announced Wedding’s arrest in Mexico.

Chapman is seeking release ahead of his extradition hearing, a date for which has not yet been set. Defence lawyer Chad Haggerty appeared in court Friday and set a bail hearing for Feb. 4 and 5.

Wedding is a former Team Canada Olympic snowboarder-turned-fugitive who was listed on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list. There had been a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest and capture. 

FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday that Wedding was taken into custody Thursday night and was being transported from Mexico to the U.S. 

Chapman is alleged to be a member of the “Wedding Criminal Enterprise," according to the unsealed federal grand jury indictment. He was arrested on extradition warrants in November.

Witness murdered in restaurant

He faces charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to retaliate against a witness and other organized crime offences.

On top of his trafficking charges, U.S. authorities allege that Chapman helped Wedding set up the murder of an FBI informant. 

Chapman is accused of providing a photo of the informant to one of his co-accused and paying him to post it to the website Dirty News so the witness “could be located and killed” before he could testify against Wedding. 

That witness was shot in the head five times in a restaurant in Colombia three months after his photo was posted online.

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Meghan Grant

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Meghan Grant is a justice affairs reporter. She has been covering courts, crime and stories of police accountability in southern Alberta for more 15 years. Send Meghan a story tip at meghan.grant@cbc.ca.

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