The Toronto-Mann-, known as “The Dictator”, to have conducted several murders on behalf of the transnational drug trade, led by a former Olympic snowboarder swour to the USA
According to the U.S. Ministry of Justice, Andrew Clark belonged to Mexico from Mexico, which was connected to the Cartel.
“I can confirm that Clark is in the United States and in federal custody,” Ciara’s McEvoy, spokesman for the US law firm in Los Angeles, told CBC News in an e -mail on Thursday evening.
Clark is expected to be charged on Monday before a federal court in Phoenix, where he was transported from Mexico.
The 34-year-old Clark is charged with murder and drug accusations against crimes in California. A federal state jury there last year, Clark and nine other Canadians accused of a cocaine smuggling network, which was allegedly cited by Ryan Wedding, a former team Canada Olympic. The group was also connected to Mexicos Sinaloa cartel.
The Thunder Bay, born in Ont, is listed as one of the most popular refugees of the FBI. Clark was arrested in a restaurant in the Guadalajara area in a dramatic day with the Mexican Navy.
“We are grateful to have him in the United States, where he will be exposed to justice,” said the reigning US lawyer Joseph T. McNally on Friday in a statement.
Several aliase
“This person is bound by the transfer of fentanyl and methamphetamine as well as the arms trade and the marketing of synthetic drugs between Mexico, the USA, Canada, Ecuador and Colombia,” said the Security Minister of Mexico, Omar Garcia Harde, according to Clark.
17 aliase for Clark are listed in a US edition, including “The Dictator” and “El Niño Problemático” or “The Problem Child”.
The large -scale extradition operation announced on Thursday came after the United States had shown large Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
“This Ministry of Justice is devoted to the destruction of cartels and transnational gangs,” said the US Attorney General Pamela Bondi in a statement. “We will fully pursue these criminals.”
The FBI tells CBC News that it has received tips on the possible whereabouts of the Canadian former Olympic snowboarder and the alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding, who is also being sought in connection with three murders in Toronto in Toronto.
The investigators said that Clark and Wedding had ordered several murders in Ontario, including the shootings of the error identity of one Indian couple To visit their children in Caledon in November 2023. Her daughter was also shot 13 times, but survived.
According to the US public prosecutor, the alleged US network of 1 billion US dollar tons of Colombian cocaine sent by Mexico to strengthen houses in California and Canada. “You would use contract killers to murder everyone you saw as an obstacle to your operation,” said the then American lawyer Martin Estrada last autumn.
Court documents indicate that Clark has used an encrypted messaging app to send a hit list to a shooter based in Toronto, which “Mr. Perfect” called. The first reported goal, a renowned drug dealer, was shot in his Niagara Falls last April, Ontario, and later died in the hospital.
Clark’s hit list also allegedly included “a broker in van”, “Some Arabs” and “‘a Mexi”, which had a restaurant and his wife, according to the evidence of US prosecutors who were submitted this week before the Supreme Court of Onario. The new documents were presented as another of the Canadian co -accused of the wedding, Gurpreet Singh, in order to be released in Toronto for deposit.
According to the court documents, Clark also received “military training” in Mexico and “gun guns and firearms” last March.
Self -described elevator mechanic
As Clark – who only described his profession as an elevator mechanic in April 2020 – does not seem to be clear that the rows in the world of Mexican drug cartels have risen.
In April 2020 he was presented in an article by the Toronto Life magazine magazine, in which he emphasized how the landlords deal with the first weeks of pandemic. Clark said he and his wife had seven tenants in six properties, and the couple had offered a reduced rent for those affected by Covid-19.
“I wanted to show our tenants that I take care of them and not only that they pay me,” he said in an e -mail from CBC. “We are lucky that I have a good job and we are very economical.”
