Alleged drug lord Ryan Marriage ceremony sought injunction to stop arrest a 12 months in the past, authorized paperwork present

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Longtime fugitive Ryan Marriage ceremony sought a court docket order to stop his arrest in Mexico's Sinaloa state almost a 12 months earlier than he was lastly taken into U.S. custody final week, in accordance with authorized data obtained by CBC Information.

The paperwork, first reported by Sinaloan information group Riodoce, counsel that Marriage ceremony — a Canadian who's accused of main a cocaine-smuggling community linked to the Sinaloa cartel — believed that Mexican authorities have been closing in on him in early 2025.

In a Mexican federal court docket submitting in mid-February, Marriage ceremony claimed underneath oath that state regulation enforcement had obtained a warrant looking for his arrest and extradition. He mentioned on the time he was residing in Los Mochis, a coastal metropolis within the western state of Sinaloa.

The submitting got here simply days after the FBI's manhunt for Marriage ceremony ramped up, following the assassination of a witness who had been set to testify in opposition to him.

Jonathan Acebedo-Garcia, a longtime drug trafficker who was born in Montreal, was shot by a success squad in Medellin, Colombia, on Jan. 31, after Marriage ceremony allegedly positioned a $5 million US bounty on his head.

Marriage ceremony, 44, was taken into U.S. custody in Mexico final week and instantly flown to California, the place he faces 17 federal costs, together with homicide, drug trafficking, witness tampering and cash laundering. He has pleaded not responsible.

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The partially-redacted ruling seen by CBC doesn't identify Marriage ceremony and leaves out his house tackle in Los Mochis. Nonetheless, a Mexican court docket docket lists the plaintiff within the case by his full identify, Ryan James Marriage ceremony.

His California-based defence lawyer Anthony Colombo informed CBC Information in an e-mail that he was conscious of the 2025 court docket case. "The usage of an amparo is widespread in Mexico to suppress an arrest warrant that was issued," Colombo mentioned.

The Mexican decide's determination says Sinaloa's public security director first acknowledged having sought the arrest warrant, however later denied that he'd completed so.

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Cartel professional Nathan P. Jones mentioned in an interview that it is "a basic narco technique" to make use of the Mexican authorized system to decelerate court docket proceedings.

Jones, an affiliate professor of safety research at Sam Houston State College in Texas, mentioned it is unlikely Marriage ceremony was residing on the tackle he offered.

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Olympic snowboarder turned accused drug kingpin Ryan Marriage ceremony pleaded not responsible to a number of costs in opposition to him throughout his first court docket look in Santa Ana, Calif., whereas uncertainty surrounds how Marriage ceremony ended up in police custody. 'Residing' in Mexico underneath cartel safety The FBI added Marriage ceremony to its listing of 10 most-wanted fugitives final March. The company's director Kash Patel described Marriage ceremony this week as "the most important narco trafficker in fashionable occasions" and in contrast him to the likes of infamous drug lords Pablo Escobar and Joaquín (El Chapo) Guzmán Loera.

The FBI mentioned the previous Olympic snowboarder was protected by the Sinaloa cartel, co-founded by El Chapo.

Whereas reporting from Sinaloa final month, CBC's Jorge Barrera was informed by Mexico's nationwide guard within the state that Marriage ceremony was not on their radar.

A Mexican safety professional later informed Barrera that Marriage ceremony was particularly tied to Los Chapitos, the faction of the cartel nonetheless managed by these loyal to El Chapo's sons.

The RCMP first sought Marriage ceremony's arrest in Montreal amid an investigation into large-scale cocaine imports to Canada in 2015. U.S. authorities now say the Thunder Bay, Ont., native had been hiding out in Mexico since round that point.

Colombo denied his consumer had spent a decade in hiding.

"I would characterize it as 'residing' [in Mexico]," Colombo informed reporters this week following his consumer's arraignment. "The federal government can characterize it their manner."

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Mexican Lawyer Basic Ernestina Godoy Ramos mentioned in an announcement this week that Marriage ceremony was a "top-tier logistics operator" linked to the Sinaloa cartel, and served "as a key bridge for the mass distribution of medicine in North America."

The Los Angeles Police Division beforehand mentioned Marriage ceremony's community used stash homes within the space to maneuver 60 tonnes every of cocaine and fentanyl a 12 months to different locations within the U.S. and Canada.