Two Toronto-area truck drivers have committed to pleading guilty in connection with a cocaine-smuggling plot for fugitive and former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding .
Iqbal Singh Virk and Ranjit Singh Rowal are the first Canadians to sign plea deals with U.S. prosecutors following the FBI’s investigation, aptly named “Operation Giant Slalom,” according to CBC News .
The probe aimed to take down Wedding’s alleged drug trafficking organization, which is accused of using commercial transport trucks to move massive amounts of cocaine and fentanyl from Colombia, through Mexico and California and into Canada.
The group has also been linked to multiple unsolved murders, including at least four murders in Ontario, the outlet reported.
Virk and Rowal were travelling back to Ontario from