A former junior hockey player from Calgary has been arrested on extradition warrants in connection with an FBI operation targeting an alleged Canadian drug lord wanted for murder and other offences.

Allistair Chapman is accused of providing a photo to one of his co-accused and paying him to post it to the website Dirty News so a witness “could be located and killed” before he could testify against the alleged leader of a transnational criminal organization, Ryan Wedding.

Chapman, 33, was arrested in Calgary on Tuesday and faces extradition to California on charges including conspiracy to distribute cocaine, conspiracy to commit murder, allegations of conspiracy to retaliate against a witness and other organized crime offences.

Ten people — seven of whom reside in Canada — were arrested

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