When police approached a stolen SUV near the funeral of a suspected gang member in Vaughan, Ont., in April 2024, they couldn’t have expected it would help the FBI bring down a violent, transnational cocaine empire tied to the Sinaloa cartel.
Inside the 2023 Ford Explorer with heavily tinted windows, officers found Malik Damion Cunningham, an alleged rival gang member and hitman who U.S. prosecutors say had been hired, armed and trained by Ryan Wedding’s sprawling criminal enterprise.
