LOS ANGELES — A Mexico City cartel boss who was shot dead by Mexican federal agents last week, and a fugitive Los Angeles gang member living in Mexico, used corrupt officials and leaked law enforcement information to help former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding move drugs and evade capture, American prosecutors allege in two indictments announced Tuesday.
OTTAWA — Ryan Wedding, the former Olympic snowboarder accused of running a billion-dollar cocaine network for the Sinaloa Cartel, used currency exchanges in the Vancouver and Toronto areas to launder billions of dollars in drug proceeds, the United States Treasury Department alleged Friday, as it sanctioned eight Canadian money services businesses accused of moving money for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
WASHINGTON—Today, as part of Operation Economic Outcast, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated eight money services businesses based in Canada that enable the Iranian regime, sanctioned entities associated with the regime, and other illicit actors that move assets into and out of Iran. These companies facilitate the exchange of Iranian rials and other currencies for digital assets to enable international transactions involving Iran. Many of these businesses have facilitated transactions with sanctioned Iranian digital asset exchanges, as well as with digital asset addresses associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
“Canada cannot be a safe haven for illicit financial facilitators that provide sanctions evasion services to the Iranian regime and its proxies,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “Treasury will pursue and disrupt the Iranian regime’s financial channels anywhere in the world.”
Carney wants Canada balkanized by mass immigration so a united front cannot be mounted against his pals China, Iran, India and the drug cartels.
A federal judge in Mexico has been arrested and is facing charges for allegedly accepting a $2 million bribe to grant bail to the Canadian deputy of former Olympic snowboarder and alleged drug trafficker Ryan Wedding.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the charges against Luis Benítez Alcántara, 49, of Mexico City, on Thursday. The charges pertain to a Feb. 2025 decision to release Andrew Clark on bail.
TORONTO – Canada faces a public-safety threat from criminal networks that recruit young people, supply weapons and pay recruits to commit acts of violence. Investigations examined by The Bureau have exposed connections to international drug trafficking, foreign-directed attacks and serious corruption inside Canadian institutions.
The shooting and hammer attack on David Morton’s family in Toronto’s Bridle Path neighborhood could bring the urgency of that threat to a much wider Canadian audience.
BROOKLYN, New York — An Iranian telecom payment of nearly $12 million sits at one end of a Federal Bureau of Investigation financial chart. At the other is a $4.55 million payment to the payroll processor for Huawei’s American subsidiary. Between them, government exhibits obtained by The Bureau map transfers through Skycom, the company prosecutors say Huawei secretly controlled in Iran, where the indictment alleges Huawei supplied surveillance technology used against protesters, and through accounts in China and major banks in New York.
OTTAWA — The money was scammed from Canadian victims. The Romanian theft-gang operative sent to collect it, an Ontario fraud investigator said Tuesday, flew from Paris to Montreal and then crossed into the United States on a jet ski at Akwesasne, the Mohawk territory that straddles the borders of Ontario, Quebec and New York.
“Literally it was a two minute jet ski ride that this guy hopped on with a human trafficker,” said Detective Sergeant John Armit of the Ontario Provincial Police.
Drug cartels plan to deploy fleets of booby-trapped submarines to smuggle cocaine into Europe, The Telegraph has learned.
The unmanned vessels will be rigged with explosives that detonate if police or the armed forces attempt to board them, military intelligence has warned.
Latin American gangs are expected to use the homemade “narco-subs” as their main method for trafficking up to 1,500 tons of cocaine across the Atlantic a year.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on 46 individuals and companies connected to Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, targeting an alleged criminal infrastructure that extends from senior cartel leadership and border trafficking operations into legitimate businesses and elite Mexican political circles, as the Pentagon simultaneously expands its military campaign against drug-trafficking organizations across Latin America.
LOS ANGELES — The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday added Satinderjeet Singh, known as “Goldy Brar,” to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list and announced a $1 million reward for information leading to his capture. The agency said Singh and the imprisoned gang leader Lawrence Bishnoi are charged with ordering the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, British Columbia.
VANCOUVER — For weeks this winter, the company that operates a coal terminal in the Port of Vancouver believed it was paying millions to the contractor building its new potash export facility. Like many elderly victims across North America taken in by spoofed emails and phantom investment deals, Westshore Terminals had been scammed.
OTTAWA — Canada’s fentanyl czar has responded to President Donald Trump’s formal finding to Congress that fentanyl is produced in clandestine Canadian laboratories and that Chinese gangs operate along the northern border of the United States with a single statistic about drug seizures.
WASHINGTON – An official declaration from President Donald Trump has informed Congress that fentanyl is still being produced in clandestine Canadian labs and that Chinese gangs are operating along the northern border of the United States, while the People’s Republic of China “continues to be the world’s largest producer of many of the precursor chemicals used to illicitly produce fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other deadly synthetic drugs.”
Yreka, California—Siskiyou County is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. It sits against the towering backdrop of Mount Shasta and is surrounded by more than a million acres of farmland and forest. But in recent years, Chinese nationals have invaded this serene Northern California paradise to build an illegal cannabis empire.
Chinese nationals, including some associated with the Chinese Communist Party, run massive illegal marijuana operations just beneath Mount Shasta. They and the county’s other illegal growers rake in billions of dollars per year, and terrorize the rural community with shootings, gang violence, and trafficking. This massive criminal enterprise operates in the shadows of America’s most populous state.
VANCOUVER — In June 2025, eight months after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced it had dismantled the largest fentanyl and methamphetamine laboratory in Canadian history, the force invited American agencies to its British Columbia headquarters in Surrey for what the Americans had hoped would be a working session.
