Ryan Wedding ally 'Tupac,' who allegedly offered cosmetic surgery to locate murder target, requests bail
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Atna Ohna faces extradition to U.S. amid allegations he helped set up murder of FBI informant
A man with alleged ties to the Montreal underworld — who goes by the aliases Tupac and Kim Jong-Un — is asking to be released on bail, a year after he was arrested for allegedly helping accused cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding set up the assassination of an FBI informant.
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Wedding → face → informant
Atna Ohna, identified in court documents as a hitman for Wedding's purported drug-smuggling network, is scheduled to appear in Quebec Superior Court in Montreal for a two-day hearing beginning Wednesday.
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Ohna → identify → hearing
U.S. federal prosecutors want Ohna extradited to stand trial in Los Angeles on conspiracy charges related to murder, drug trafficking and witness tampering.
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Ohna → want → murder
Montreal police have described Ohna as one the city's most prominent organized crime figures.
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police → describe → one
According to Canadian court documents, Ohna made multiple efforts to help locate the target of Wedding's purported murder plot.
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Ohna → accord → plot
One such attempt included enlisting the assistance of an acquaintance and telling her Wedding would pay for a "Brazilian butt lift" and breast augmentation surgery.
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Wedding → include → lift
Montreal-born FBI witness Jonathan Acebedo-Garcia was killed in Medellin, Colombia, in January 2025.
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Garcia → bear → January
Ohna was purportedly given $150,000 cash, plus 30 kilograms cocaine and a bejewelled red necklace, for his role in tracking down the victim, Jonathan Acebedo-Garcia, court documents say.
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documents → give → victim
The former Wedding associate turned FBI informant was shot in the head while having lunch in Medellin, Colombia, in January 2025.
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associate → turn → January
A U.S. grand jury later indicted Wedding, Ohna and others — including a self-described "cocaine lawyer," a crime blogger and an escort service operator — for their purported roles in orchestrating the killing.
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jury → indict → killing
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The 41-year-old — whose last name is sometimes spelled Onha — has been in custody in Quebec and fighting extradition since his arrest last November as part of an FBI-led takedown targeting Wedding and his allies.
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Ohna's lawyer, Danièle Roy, did not respond to requests for comment on the allegations surrounding her client.
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lawyer → respond → client
In a separate case, Quebec Superior Court was shown a police surveillance photo of Ohna meeting in a Laval park in May 2020 with four men police identified as high-ranking organized crime figures, including Hells Angels members.
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Ohna, second from right, is seen in this police surveillance photo taken in May 2020 in a park in Laval, Que.
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A court heard Ohna was seen meeting with high-ranking organized crime figures, including Hells Angels members Gilles Lambert and François Vachon.
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Minh Tri Truong, a former Montreal police commander, previously told Radio-Canada that Ohna himself has been the target of assassination plots.
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"There have been several hits out on him," Truong said.
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Truong → say → him
"He's been warned multiple times."
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According to court documents, Ohna goes by aliases including Tupac and Kim Jong-Un.
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A summary of U.S. prosecutors' evidence against Wedding, Ohna and other defendants — filed in Quebec Superior Court amid extradition proceedings — suggests the man known as Tupac had worked for Wedding before.
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The court documents state that a co-operating witness is expected to testify at trial that in November 2023, Ohna killed an unnamed "rival gang member" on behalf of Wedding.
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Ohna → state → Wedding
Neither defendant is charged in connection with the purported assassination.
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That month, Hells Angels-linked crime boss Gregory Woolley was gunned down in a Lamborghini SUV in a parking lot in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que.
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Woolley → link → Richelieu
A separate, burnt-out vehicle believed to be connected to the shooting was later found on a Montreal street, 40 kilometres away.
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vehicle → burn → street
The shooter has not been identified.
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A burnt-out car on a Montreal sidestreet is thought to be connected to the shooting death of Gregory Woolley, a well-known organized crime figure in Quebec who was shot and killed in a parking lot in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., on Nov. 17, 2023.
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U.S. authorities allege Wedding and his second-in-command, Andrew Clark, led an international network of "sicarios" — contract killers — to eliminate perceived rivals of their $1-billion US cocaine empire.
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authorities → allege → empire
Wedding, a former Team Canada Olympic snowboarder, was captured in Mexico last January and flown to California after a high-profile international search.
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Wedding → capture → search
He has pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to export cocaine and murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise.
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He's set to stand trial next year.
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CBC News previously reported Clark, a fellow Canadian known as The Dictator, also turned FBI informant after his arrest.
Although public records don't name Clark as the co-operating witness, lawyers for Ohna and another co-accused recently told a judge it's "obvious" that he must be the informant.
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Wedding's second-in-command, fellow Canadian Andrew Clark, was arrested in Mexico in October 2024.
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Wedding → arrest → October
As for Ohna, court documents say he leveraged his connection to a Montreal woman — who wanted to date him — to obtain information on Acebedo-Garcia, the target of the 2025 murder plot.
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who → say → plot
At Wedding's request, U.S. prosecutors say Ohna later obtained Acebedo-Garcia's phone number and reached him through Threema, an encrypted messaging app.
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Ohna → say → Threema
Acebedo-Garcia purportedly acknowledged to Ohna he had been working with the FBI and said he had "no choice" but to co-operate.
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He was shot in the head five times on Jan. 31, 2025, before the gunman took off on a motorcycle.
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The shooter has not been identified, but court documents suggest he may have been part of a hit squad hired through a Colombian crime syndicate once linked to the late drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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CBC News senior reporter Thomas Daigle has extensively covered the case of Ryan Wedding.
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He can be reached by email at thomas.daigle@cbc.ca.
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