Mississauga-based Punjabi-origin crime-blogger Gursewak Singh Bal, 31, has been arrested as part of a US–Canadian crackdown on a drug empire allegedly led by ex-Olympic snowboarder Ryan James Wedding.

Bal, co-founder of the “Dirty Newz” website, was one of seven Canadians detained on November 19 in coordinated police raids codenamed “Operation Giant Slalom” - a cross-border sting that officials call “an unprecedented clampdown on transnational narco-terrorism.”

According to Global News and Edmonton City News, “Bal, 31, of Mississauga, Ont., was the operator of a Canadian urban news outlet dubbed ‘the Dirty News'. He was reportedly paid $10,000… not to post about Wedding and Clark, and was instead given a photograph of the witness and was paid to post it so that he could be found and kill

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