The FBI -is the latest Top 10 most sought after fugitive was Olympic Snowboarder during the second chapter in his life. Now she’s on the run like alleged king of drugs and the killer.
Former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding was added to the FBI -u A list of the most sought after fugitives, and the agency offers $ 10 million for what turns it. The wedding was allegedly launched by a transnational drug for drug trade that delivered hundreds of pounds of cocaine via Mexico and southern California to Canada and other locations in the US from Colombia from Colombia
He also allegedly orchestrated and tried more killings.
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Even the ex -wife was allegedly in trouble.
Here’s a look at how the former Snowboarder has become one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.
Childhood
The wedding was born in 1981 in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
It was a city once known for its boat and cereals via boats and railways, but its shipping industry decreased in the 70s and 80s, a wedding was born due to the development of the Canadian highway that enabled transportation.
The city has since become one of several cities that are more crime in the country. From 2012 to 2014, and again from 2016 to 2019, Thunder Bay had the highest homicide rate per capita among Canadian cities, according to the census of the nation.
View of Thunder Bay, Ontario, from Hillcrest Park. (Educational Pictures/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The wedding came from the skiers family. His father Rene, an engineer, skied in college. His mother Karen had a brother who skied the Canadian national team. Grandpa and grandparents even drove a little ski hill in the city.
And when the wedding followed winter sports, he quickly exposed the trait often needed for competitive athletes and ruthless criminals.
“He wasn’t afraid,” said former national champion ski ski rolling Rolling Stone Jesse Hyde from 2009.
“Many children, they say they want to go fast, but they don’t really want to go fast. They keep something because there is a little fear of the fall there. Ryan had none of that.”
Early athletic career
Around 1991, the Wedding family moved from Thunder Bay to the Pacific Ocean coast, Coquitlam, British Colombia, less than an hour from Vancouver. Coquitlam is a city with lower than average crime rates in Canada. However, the biggest issue of crime in the city is “people using or drugs” with a rate of 40.85 of 120, According to Numbe.
There, the wedding quickly highlighted in Snowboarding, winning in the first race in which he competed at the age of 12. Just three years later he was part of the Canadian National Snowboarding Team at the age of 15 and started traveling the world regularly to competitions. Rene Wedding paid all the expenses for Ryan’s participation in the team, spending about $ 40,000, Rolling Stone said.
The young Snowboarder is allegedly “obsessed” for training the Snowboarding technique, and also used his father’s engineering skills to try to modify his boots and snowboard.
Olympiad
After missing the 1998 Winter Olympics, the wedding qualified for its first and only 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City.
But wedding natural talent, fearlessness and obsession were not enough to bring it to the podium.
In his only event, the male parallel giant slalom, the wedding finished in 24th place. Philipp Schoch in Switzerland won gold, Swedish Richard Rikesson won Silver, and Chris Klug from the USA took bronze.
Canadian Ryan wedding at the 2002 Olympics. (Tony Marshall/Empics via Getty Images)
With a bronze medal, Klug started his own foundation dedicated to “promoting organ donation and tissue to rescue and improve the quality of life for those touched by a donation.”
Without a medal in hand, the wedding started with a completely different path after Salt Lake City.
Early criminal activity
After the Olympic Games, the wedding enrolled at the University of Simon and Frasier in Vancouver.
In the early 2000s, Vancouver rose as one of the world’s illegal marijuana capital. The drug is not legalized, but it was also a low priority for the implementation of the law, which resulted in the approach to the cannabis store “gray surface”, official companies that illegally sold marijuana under the guise of another purpose.
Gang activity associated with drugs has reportedly increased in the city from 2002-09. Gande known as “Red Scorpions”, “Independent Soldiers” and “Wolfpack Alliance”, according to several reports, marijuana arriving was suspected of superior activity and form of band revenue.
The wedding was first associated with criminal activities in 2006. He and the other competitive Snowboarder were appointed to search for a house in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, which was explored because of the growth of large amounts of marijuana, according to Vancouver Sun.
Police seized 6,800 marijuana plants from that house, but no one was charged.
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First prison sentence and mysterious marriage
The wedding was first arrested in 2009 in the United States after a trip with two Vancouver friends to California to allegedly buy 24 kilograms of Colombian cocaine.
The FBI found that the wedding was working for a drug lord in Vancouver at the time.
That year, the city moved to war gangs with multiple shots related to gang violence, according to several reports. The alleged gangs included independent soldiers, the Sangher Crime family, the Buttar family family, Ganda of the United Nations, Red Scorpions and the chapters of Vancouver of Hells Angels, said Vancouver Sun.
On his home computer in Abbotsford, British Columbia, May 16, 2009, Mathea Angelica Sturm, 17 years, is stained in the memories of two high school colleagues who have been referred to death. (Getty Images)
That year, police responded to reports of more than 30 shootings.
“Let’s not stand. There is a gang war and that’s brutal,” said Jim Chu, the then police chief Vancouver, CBC said.
When his wedding was destined, he claimed that he had volunteered for several cancer agencies, engaged in real estate investment and trained for the 2010 Olympics. But the Canadian Snowboard Federation said he hadn’t been competing for years, according to the Vancouver sun.
The wedding endured a four -year prison sentence after agreeing to take away more than $ 121,000 taken away during an airport stitch and agreed to appeal to his belief.
Just over a year, the wedding had its wedding behind bars. He married a businessman born Iranian from British Colombia at the Reeves district center in Western Texas, according to CBC.
A woman, who was not appointed, said the wedding insisted that she had been convicted because she was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“I don’t want to be associated with these people,” she said, according to the CBC.
The woman has since been appointed in multiple money laundering and investigations. Although she denied any involvement in criminal activities, her name appeared in the alleged international laundering scheme of money -related money for Mexican drug cartels.
The wedding and the woman are no longer together. She says they haven’t talked in recent years and that she has been getting married since then, by CBC.
To become king
That it was not long after the wedding was released from prison before the authorities broke it again.
In 2015, he was charged with a new drug foul in Nova Scotland. That time the police never caught him. Since then, he has been on the run as a fugitive.
US investigators believe that the wedding protected by Kartel Sinalo in Mexico and continued the trade shortly after being released from prison. Federal authorities first issued an arrest warrant for a wedding in September 2024, but has not yet been arrested.
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The wedding is also believed to also pass the pseudonym “El Jefe”, “Giant”, “Public Enemy”, “James Conrad King” and “Jesse King”, and are estimated to have been transporting over one billion dollars in cocaine.
Wedding and alleged compatriot Andrew Clark, who was arrested in October and Entitled last weekThey are charged with the coordination of the murder of the Ontario family “in retaliation for the stolen drug shipment that passed through southern California.”
The FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Wedding and Clark coordinated a double murder in November 2023. In Ontario involving an innocent couple in killing the wrong identity, it is said FBI.
The wedding and Clark are also charged with the coordination of another person’s murder in May for debt debt.
FBI Los Angeles head Akil Davis said at a press conference on Thursday that the alleged shopping ring “routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and South California, Canada and other locations in the United States, and for orchestrating multiple killings and attempts to kill these drugs.
“The alleged murder of his competitors make a wedding a very dangerous man, and his addition to the list of the ten most sought after fugitives, along with the great State Department Prize, will make the public of our partner so that we can catch him before anyone else puts him in danger,” Davis added.
Investigators believe that the wedding lives in Mexico, but did not exclude it in the United States, Canada, Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica or elsewhere.
The accusations of murder and a criminal companies against the wedding carry a mandatory minimum sentence in federal prison.
