August 19, 2025
RED FM News Desk
Two truckers from Ontario have agreed to plead guilty for their role in a scheme to smuggle cocaine from California to Ontario for fugitive Ryan Wedding’s criminal enterprise.
Iqbal Singh Virk and Ranjit Singh Rowal from the Toronto area are the first Canadians to sign plea deals with U.S. prosecutors following a sprawling FBI investigation last fall, dubbed “Operation Giant Slalom.”
The probe aimed to dismantle Wedding’s alleged drug trafficking network, which uses commercial trucks to move tonnes of cocaine and fentanyl across North America. The group has also been linked to at least four murders in Ontario.
Wedding, who competed for Canada at the 2002 Olympic Games, is one of the FBI’s most-wanted fugitives, with a $10 million US reward offered for information leading to his capture.
According to documents filed this month in a U.S. District Court in L.A., Virk and Rowal have committed to pleading guilty to charges including conspiracy to distribute cocaine, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The two were arrested in August 2024 as they tried to cross the Blue Water Bridge from Michigan to the Sarnia, Ont., area. A secret compartment in their truck’s trailer contained 95 kg of cocaine and 20 kg of heroin.
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