Legal professionals for a Calgary man arrested on extradition warrants related to accused Canadian drug kingpin Ryan Marriage ceremony will likely be making use of for a evaluate of a call denying him bail.
Allistair Chapman, 33, and 9 others have been arrested final yr in an FBI investigation right into a billion-dollar worldwide drug trafficking group allegedly run by Marriage ceremony in Mexico, Colombia, Canada and america.
U.S. prosecutors allege Chapman helped organize the killing of an FBI informant by offering the person’s photograph to a co-accused and paying for it to be posted on-line.
The informant was later shot useless at a restaurant in Colombia.
Justice Paul Jeffrey, who denied bail final month, says U.S. prosecutors have a robust case towards Chapman.
And he says releasing him on bail would undermine public confidence within the justice system.
“Whereas he didn’t pull the set off, he knew the aim of the work he was assigned was the homicide,” the choose mentioned in a written choice Friday.
However one in every of Chapman’s legal professionals, Chad Haggerty, indicated in court docket Friday that they intend to ask for a evaluate of the choice. A date for a bail evaluate is anticipated to be set March 20.
Haggerty mentioned the unique authority to proceed requesting Chapman’s extradition had been amended to only conspiracy to commit homicide.
The amended request was dated final month.
“The Minister of Justice of Canada authorizes the Legal professional Normal of Canada to proceed earlier than the Courtroom of King’s Bench of Alberta to hunt an order for the committal of Allistair Curtis Chapman … who’s looked for prosecution by america of America. The Canadian offence which corresponds to the alleged conduct is conspiracy to commit homicide,” it reads.
Chapman was initially charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, conspiracy to commit homicide, conspiracy to retaliate towards a witness and different organized crime offences.
One other accused, Rasheed Pascua Hossain, who was arrested on costs associated to cocaine trafficking and cash laundering, was launched on bail in Vancouver in December and allowed to reside in Calgary. He additionally appeared in court docket Friday and his matter has been put over till April 23.
Marriage ceremony was arrested earlier this yr in Mexico and transferred to California. He had been on the FBI’s most-wanted listing.