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Ryan Wedding ceremony made his first courtroom look following his arrest final week in Mexico Metropolis … with the alleged worldwide drug kingpin pleading not responsible to all 17 felony prices in opposition to him, and his legal professional urging the general public to maintain an open thoughts.
Wedding ceremony appeared earlier than Choose John D. Early on Monday afternoon in a Santa Ana courtroom. On prime of his not responsible plea, he was ordered jailed with out bond and can stay in U.S. custody.
Talking with TMZ Sports activities exterior the courtroom … Wedding ceremony’s legal professional, Anthony Colombo, fired again at FBI Director Kash Patel‘s declare that the Canadian Olympic snowboarder is a modern-day El Chapo and Pablo Escobar.
“Does he look like El Chapo to you?” Colombo stated. “Does he look like Pablo Escobar to you? No, he’s a former Olympic athlete, and I don’t think he’s who they claim him to be.”
All of it comes after the FBI was in a position to seize Wedding ceremony, who was on the FBI’s Ten Most Needed fugitives listing, final Thursday in Mexico’s capital metropolis. Patel didn’t disclose lots of the particulars behind his seize, however underscored the significance of his arrest, calling him ”the biggest narco-trafficker in fashionable occasions.”
As he arrived again within the States final week, the 44-year-old walked off the DOJ airplane rocking a black baseball cap with a black vest, gray undershirt and a pair of denims along with his fingers cuffed out in entrance as he made his means throughout the tarmac at Ontario Worldwide Airport.
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His subsequent courtroom date is scheduled for subsequent month … with a jury trial slated to get underway in March.
