A trucker from the Toronto area has been sentenced to more than six years in a U.S. federal prison for attempting to smuggle cocaine into Canada, on behalf of fugitive Ryan Wedding’s alleged drug ring.

Ranjit Singh Rowal is the first Canadian resident to be sentenced in connection with the two-year FBI-led probe into Wedding and his associates — a sprawling, multinational investigation that led to another 11 arrests last week.

Rowal’s involvement highlights a key feature of the $1-billion US criminal network’s purported operations: the use of transport trucks to move Colombian cocaine, fentanyl and other drugs from a logistics hub in Southern California, onto Canadian and U.S. destinations farther afield.

Rowal, 65, was arrested in August 2024 along with another driver, Iqbal Singh Virk

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