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An old Olympic snowboarder was added to the list of the ten most sought-after FBI fugitives accused of having directed a drug cartel that has tracked hundreds of pounds of Colombian cocaine in Mexico in the United States and Canada.
Ryan Wedding, 43, of Thunder Bay, Canada, was added to the most sought after list on the office on Thursday, replacing the rapist and the murderer of alleged children, Alexis Flores.
The fugitive, who would be on the run in Mexico and under the protection of the Sinaloa cartel, is sought after for the brain of a transnational drug trafficking network which regularly shipped tons of Colombia cocaine across Mexico and through the American-mexic border, according to the FBI.
Wedding, which had alias “El Jefe”, “Giant” and “Public Enemy”, was also accused of having orchestrated several murders, including an innocent Canadian couple who was killed in a case of erroneous identity in 2023.
His addition to the most sought -after FBI list has marked a brutal fall in Grace since he represented Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, ranking 24th in the giant male parallel event in slalom.
“Marriage went from shredding powder on the tracks of the Olympic Games to distribute cocaine powder in the streets of American cities and in its native Canada,” said Akil Davis, deputy director of the FBI field office in Los Angeles in a statement on Thursday.
Matthew Allen, a special agent in charge of the Los Angeles Field division of the Drug Enfurcement Administration, added: “The former Canadian snowboarder sparked an avalanche of death and destruction here and abroad.
“Now his face will be on the posters” TOP 10 the most sought after “. It is incessant, insensitive and focused on greed. Today’s announcement makes him appear an even brighter projector. We ask you to help us find it.
The FBI said that he was now desperate to translate marriage to justice, before “the very dangerous man … endangers someone else”.
A reward of $ 10 million for information about its fate is offered by the US office of the State Department of International Narcusts and Application of Law Application.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio authorized financial incentive as part of the drug award program.
The FBI also offers $ 50,000 separate for information leading to alleged access to legal drugs.
“We are committed to protecting the American communities from thugs which, with clear consciences, deliberately peddle illicit drugs and the prey of our young people,” said Cartwright Weiland, head of the main office of the Department of State.
Shortly after the appearance of the Wedding Olympic Games, the suspect signed up for Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, where he took part -time job as a bouncer, said a friend Roller Earlier this year.
Wedding’s friend believes that it was through this role that the former athlete made his first forays into hell.
“The descent of wedding in this world was no different from the way in which the entry into a legitimate industry is gained. He made friends who have become links. He has network, ”wrote Jesse Hyde, a journalist based in Salt Lake City for Roller.
Police investigated marriage to the suspicions that he directed a major marijuana culture operation in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, since 2004.
In 2006, he was appointed in a search warrant in Maple Ridge, according to his athlete profile on Olympics.com. He was never charged.
Marriage was sentenced in May 2010 for trying to buy cocaine to a government agent in 2008 and was sentenced to four years in prison.
The marriage was charged in October 2024 as a main suspect alongside 15 other suspects to lead transnational drug trafficking, the FBI and the police mounted in Canada in a joint statement said.
He could be confronted with a compulsory minimum sentence of life in federal prison if she was found guilty, said the FBI.
The officials said the marriage was directing the drug trafficking ring with its Canadian citizen colleague Andrew Clarke, who uses trucks and houses to transport cocaine across the United States and Canada.
Their group was also accused of being responsible for several shots in the Peel region, a municipality in the Grand Toronto region.
“An Olympic athlete who has become a drug lord is now accused of having directed a transnational organized crime group which has engaged in the trafficking and murder of cocaine, including innocent civilians,” said Martin Estrada, American lawyer for California.
