{"id":11909,"date":"2025-11-23T01:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/another-accomplice-of-ryan-wedding-arrested-by-the-rcmp-in-vancouver-says-fbi\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T01:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:20:38","slug":"another-accomplice-of-ryan-wedding-arrested-by-the-rcmp-in-vancouver-says-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/another-accomplice-of-ryan-wedding-arrested-by-the-rcmp-in-vancouver-says-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Another accomplice of Ryan Wedding arrested by the RCMP in Vancouver, says FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>WorldThe FBI says one of fugitive Ryan Wedding\u2019s former accomplices has been arrested. The news came after CBC News learned that another one of Wedding\u2019s former collaborators had turned against him.Rasheed Pascua Hossain arrested Friday on charges related to cocaine trafficking, money launderingListen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.An image of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding is shown during an FBI news conference in October 2024. The alleged drug kingpin remains a fugitive.  (Damian Dovarganes\/The Associated Press)The FBI says another one of fugitive Ryan Wedding\u2019s former accomplices has been arrested.Rasheed Pascua Hossain, a 32-year-old from Vancouver who went by the alias \u201cJP Morgan,\u201d was arrested on Friday by the RCMP and faces U.S. charges related to cocaine trafficking and money laundering.Hossain was a key player in Wedding\u2019s multimillion-dollar money-laundering operation, according to a U.S. federal grand jury indictment that was unsealed this week.The news came after CBC News learned that another one of fugitive Ryan Wedding\u2019s former accomplices had turned against him.Records filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice reveal the FBI secured the help of a new informant this year who had \u201ctrafficked drugs with Wedding and assisted Wedding with committing multiple murders.\u201dTen people were arrested this week as part of an FBI investigation into an alleged drug-trafficking organization that Wedding is said to head. He remains at large.According to the court documents filed this week as U.S. authorities seek to extradite Canadian co-defendants in the case, the unnamed drug trafficker \u201cagreed to assist U.S. authorities in the investigation of Wedding\u2019s organization, specifically in regard to the January 2025 murder\u201d of a previous key witness, Jonathan Acebedo-Garcia.Acebedo-Garcia, a Canadian-Colombian longtime drug trafficker, was shot to death in Medell\u00edn, Colombia, in what U.S. prosecutors describe as retaliation for helping the FBI target Wedding\u2019s criminal enterprise.According to court documents, the new informant met with investigators \u201cmultiple times\u201d between February and this month.As well, Wedding, the former Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin, purportedly reached out to him in October 2024 for help identifying the FBI\u2019s initial confidential source, who was later named in court documents as Acebedo-Garcia.Acebedo-Garcia\u2019s killing is at the centre of the sprawling grand jury indictment unsealed this week, which led to new charges against Wedding and several alleged co-conspirators.WATCH | Who is Ryan Wedding?:Ryan Wedding, the Canadian at the centre of one of the biggest international criminal investigations in the world, continues to evade capture thanks in part, the FBI says, to protection from the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel and other criminal entities in Mexico. He\u2019s been on the run since 2015, wanted in connection with multiple drug and conspiracy crimes, in addition to ordering and orchestrating murder.Wedding \u2018suspected\u2019 he knew who it wasThe court documents say Wedding \u201csuspected he knew the identity\u201d of the FBI\u2019s confidential source, but he sought assistance from the informant \u2014 now helping U.S. law enforcement \u2014 in confirming that.At a certain point, Wedding asked Atna Ohna \u2014 alleged in the documents to be \u201ca Montreal-based hitman\u201d who worked for him \u2014 to confront the suspected FBI source via text. According to the documents, the person on the other end of that communication \u201cadmitted\u201d to be working for the FBI against Wedding. That confirmation occurred in October 2024.Wedding and the informant then had a group chat on an unnamed encrypted messaging application with a Toronto lawyer \u2014 identified in the court documents as Deepak Paradkar.It\u2019s alleged that the lawyer said if the confidential source \u201cwas eliminated\u201d and could not appear in court, an indictment against Wedding and his drug organization would likely be dismissed.\u2019Wanted to murder\u2019 the FBI sourceWedding subsequently told the informant \u201che wanted to murder\u201d the FBI source and was willing to spend up to $5 million US to make that happen.The court documents also describe the efforts Wedding and others allegedly took to track down and ultimately kill Acebedo-Garcia.Authorities allege Wedding arranged a payment of $10,000 Cdn to have Acebedo-Garcia\u2019s photo published on a crime-related blog to draw out tips about his whereabouts.WATCH | Increased reward for information about Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding:Ryan Wedding labelled modern-day Pablo Escobar by FBI, facing new chargesU.S. officials have laid new charges against Canadian Olympian and alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding. Several associates were also arrested in Canada, including a Toronto-area defence lawyer.Efforts were also made to gain information about the Colombia-based girlfriend of the FBI source, in a bid to get to Acebedo-Garcia.The documents say Wedding also sent a person from Canada down to Colombia to try to locate an Airbnb rental property that the FBI source operated. That person made two such trips, one in December 2024 and another in early January 2025. Acebedo-Garcia was slain while he was at a restaurant with friends on Jan. 31 of this year, according to the court records. A person walked up behind him and shot him in the head \u201capproximately five times\u201d before leaving the restaurant and fleeing the scene on a motorcycle, the documents say.The informant told authorities that Wedding later sent a photo of the slain man\u2019s body \u201cto numerous individuals, bragging that he had killed the \u2018rat.\u2019\u201dABOUT THE AUTHORThomas is a CBC News reporter based in Toronto. In recent years, he has covered some of the biggest stories in the world, from the 2015 Paris attacks to the Tokyo Olympics and the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. He\u2019s reported from the Lac-M\u00e9gantic rail disaster, the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa and the Pope\u2019s visit to Canada aimed at reconciliation with Indigenous people. Thomas can be reached at thomas.daigle@cbc.ca.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WorldThe FBI says one of fugitive Ryan Wedding\u2019s former accomplices has been arrested. 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