Montreal police say they have arrested a man who was sought in connection with alleged drug offences in Ontario and was also on a list of most wanted criminals in the United States. 
 
 They say they apprehended Katay-Khaophone Sychanta, 35, and another man on a cycling path last Wednesday for alleged drug possession. 
 
 Ontario Provincial Police were looking for Sychanta, who was the subject of a Canada-wide arrest warrant. 
 
 Montreal police say he was on the list of the top 10 criminals wanted by the Homeland Security Investigations unit of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 
 
 Sychanta was arraigned in Montreal last Thursday on charges of drug possession, obstructing the work of police officers and using false documents. ||||| Montreal police patrolling on bicycles have arrested a man who turned out to be one of the most wanted suspects in the U.S. 
 
 Katay-Khaophone Sychantha, also known as Kao, was stopped last Wednesday by officers doing a routine patrol of a Montreal cycle path, who suspected Sychantha and another man of drug possession. 
 
 According to a police statement, Sychantha tried to flee on foot, but was quickly apprehended. When asked for identification, Sychantha produced an American identification card. The officers suspected the card was fake and took him into custody for further questioning. 
 
 Police fingerprinted Sychantha and noticed he had a missing fingertip on his right hand. When they ran the prints through their database, they learned the Laos-born man they had in their custody was the suspected ring leader in a large-scale drug and weapons smuggling operation. 
 
 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wanted Sychantha as the suspected leader of an organization that supplied ecstasy pills and marijuana to distributors in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, Georgia and New York. 
 
 He was also wanted by the Ontario Provincial Police for several drug trafficking offences. 
 
 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security considered him one of their most wanted, and offered a US$25,000 reward for his capture. 
 
 The wanted poster for Sychantha on the ICE website warned that Sychantha had a history of violence, had allegedly made threats against several law enforcement officials, and should be considered armed and dangerous. 
 
 It said that Sychantha was first indicted in Michigan in 2005 for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. He evaded capture, they wrote, and continued to supervise a drug-smuggling organization based in Windsor. 
 
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 Katay-Khaophone Sychantha, 35, reportedly a dual citizen of Canada and Laos, was arrested on Wednesday by two Montreal police officers based out of neighbourhood Station 7 who were patrolling a bike path in the St-Laurent borough near the Bois Franc train station. According to a statement issued by the Montreal police on Monday, Sychantha was with another man when they were approached by the officers who suspected they possessed drugs. 
 
 Sychantha tried to flee but was arrested after a short pursuit. He produced a fake American identification card, but the officers suspected he was trying to hide something and arrested him. He was eventually brought to the Montreal police West Operations Centre in the St-Laurent borough, where he was fingerprinted and his true identity was revealed. 
 
 According to the release, Sychantha is wanted by the Ontario Provincial Police on warrants involving a series of drug trafficking-related offences. He was also on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Ten Most Wanted list. The wanted poster on the ICE website alleges Sychantha, 35, was first indicted in Michigan in 2005 for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance. 
 
 “Following this indictment, Sychantha evaded capture and continued to supervise a drug-smuggling organization based in the Windsor, Canada area. In 2013, Sychantha’s continued illicit activity led to a second indictment in the Eastern District of Michigan for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance. He has a history of violence and has allegedly made threats against HSI Special Agents and other law enforcement officials,” the wanted poster notes. It describes Sychantha as someone who should be considered as “armed and dangerous.” He last known location is listed as being Lakeshore, Ont., a town just 40 kilometres from the U.S. border crossing into Detroit. 
 
 A statement issued by ICE following the arrest describes Sychantha as “the suspected ring leader of a drug-smuggling organization which supplied millions of ecstasy pills and hundreds of pounds of marijuana to several distributors located in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, Georgia, and New York.” 
 
 Sychantha appeared at the Montreal courthouse on Thursday where he was charged with drug possession, trying to mislead a police officer and with carrying fake identification. He is expected to be turned over to the Ontario Provincial Police and might eventually be extradited to the U.S. 
 
 The charges Sychantha faces in the U.S. involve a indictment that was filed more than a decade ago in a U.S. District Court in Michigan. It remained sealed for years while authorities sought him and then was made public in 2013. It was later amended to add charges alleging Sychantha (who is referred to as Khaophone Sychantha) and three other people were part of a conspiracy to distribute several different types of drugs, including ecstasy and methamphetamine and more than 100 kilograms of marijuana, in the U.S. 
 
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– Montreal police have just earned a heap of respect for bicycle cops everywhere. Two cycling police officers were patrolling a Montreal bike path last Wednesday when they spotted two men they suspected of having drugs, police say. The suspects took off running and the officers pursued, one eventually jumping off his bike and chasing the men on foot, reports CBC News. The effort paid off when both suspects were caught near a train station. But it was only later during fingerprinting that police officers realized exactly what they'd accomplished, per CTV News. One of the men captured was Katay-Khaophone Sychanta, 35, who held a spot on the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's list of the top 10 most wanted criminals. The Laos-born man—who also had a Canada-wide warrant out for his arrest, per the Canadian Press—is accused of running an Ontario-based drug smuggling operation that "supplied millions of ecstasy pills and hundreds of pounds of marijuana to several distributors located in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, Georgia, and New York," the ICE says, per the Montreal Gazette. Sychanta, who was considered armed and dangerous, had also made threats against law enforcement officials, per the ICE. He was arraigned Thursday on charges of drug possession, obstructing police work, and possessing counterfeit documents, per a police report. He's now in the custody of Ontario Provincial Police and may face extradition to the US, per the CBC.