Los Angeles Chief of Police, Jim McDonnell, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner, Michael Duheme and Akil Davis, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Los Angeles Field Office walk with FBI Director Kash Patel following a news conference to announce the apprehension of Ryan Wedding, Jan. 23.Mike Blake/Reuters
A Montreal man wanted in connection with a criminal organization allegedly run by former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding has been arrested in the United States.
The FBI says 35-year-old Tommy Demorizi was arrested on Tuesday at Newark International Airport in New Jersey.
It says he was wanted for multiple offences, including allegedly helping locate a witness who was later killed.
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Demorizi faces charges including conspiracy to distribute and export cocaine, conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to tamper with a witness.
Several other Canadians have been arrested as part of the investigation into Wedding, including a lawyer who allegedly advised the killing of a federal witness and a jeweller accused of being the “de facto bank” for the criminal enterprise.
Wedding himself was arrested in Mexico in January after a years-long manhunt, with FBI director Kash Patel calling him “the largest narco trafficker in modern times.”