Former Olympic Snowboarder and Canadian National Ryan Wedding, 43, has been placed on the FBI list of the 10 most sought after fugitives for the alleged guidance of the violent transnational drug trade network.
The wedding was sought for allegedly shipping hundreds of pounds of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and southern California, at the locations of Canada and the USA, and for the orchestration of multiple murders and attempts to kill for further drug crimes.
The US offers a prize up to 10 million dollars (£ 7.7m) for information leading to the arrest or condemnation of a wedding.
Investigators believe he lives in Mexico, but did not exclude his presence in the US, Canada, other Latin American countries or elsewhere.
It was not clear if there was a lawyer.
The wedding competed in the giant slalom Snowboard for Canada during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
His Alias include “El Jefe,” “Giant,” “Public Enemy,” “James Conrad King” and “Jesse King,” FBI said.
In June 2024, his wedding and his companion, Andrew Clark, 34, also Canadian, were charged in California of conducting a continuing criminal company, committing murder with drug crimes and conspiring drugs, and conspiring for possession, distribution and cocaine exports.
Clark arrested Mexican authorities last October and was among the 29 fugitives of the US from Mexico last week.
The US indictment states that the wedding and Clark directed the killings of two November 2023. Two family members in Ontario in Canada in retaliation due to a stolen drug shipment that passed through southern California. Another family member survived the shooting, but he remained with serious physical injuries, the FBI said.
The wedding and Clark allegedly ordered the killing of the second victim on May 18, 2024. Due to the debt of the drug, the FBI states.
“The alleged killings 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 of the State Department, will make the public of our partner so we can catch him before anyone else puts him in danger,” said Akil Davis, an assistant director of the FBI, he said in Los.
