A crime blog that the FBI alleges was used by accused cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding to set up a murder in Colombia was already the subject of a B.C. criminal investigation that started two years ago.

Gursewak Singh Bal, the founder of The Dirty Newz, was charged with nine others Wednesday in the U.S. with conspiracy to kill a government witness who was going to testify against Ryan.

In November 2023, Bal’s site posted internal police documents, prompting the earlier investigation.

At the time, the B.C. Public Safety Ministry issued a news release saying, “The Abbotsford Police Department and the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit became aware of an unauthorized display of a sensitive law enforcement intelligence document on an online social media site.”

“Upon assessment, on Nov. 2

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