$ 10 million remuneration offered for former Olympic accused of murder, drug costs
UPDATE – 3/6/25, 17:35 pm et: A reward of $ 10 million is are offered by the US Department of Foreign Affairs For information that leads to the arrest and/or conviction by Ryan James WeddingA former Olympian accused of exploiting a murderous cocaination.
The reward was offered on Thursday, March 6, the same day wedding, 43, was added to the 10 most searched fighter list of the FBI.
“Wedding went from shredding powder on the slopes on the Olympic Games to the distribution of powder cocaine in the streets of American cities and in his native Canada,” said Akil DavisThe assistant director of the FBI field office of the FBI. “The alleged murders of his competitors make a very dangerous man, and his addition to the list of 10 most searched fugitives, in combination with a large demonstration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the public will overtake our partner so that we can catch up before he joins someone else.”
Original story:
A former Olympic snowboarder is responsible for operating a deadly cocaine company – and it remains in general.
Ryan James Wedding43, who participated in Canada in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, was accused on Thursday 17 October of running a criminal company, murder, conspiracy to spread cocaine and other crimes, said American prosecutors.
Wedding, a Canadian citizen who lived in Mexico and is now considered a fugitive, is accused of running a drug trafficking ring that has moved 60 tons of cocaine per year.
According to the authorities, the group of wedding long-distance used semi-trucks to move shipments cocaine from Colombia through Mexico and California to Canada and other locations in the United States.
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Wedding is one of the 16 people who are charged in connection with the operation, with four remaining fugitives. A dozen people were arrested in Florida, Michigan, Canada, Colombia and Mexico in connection with the case, according to FBI Special Agent Krysti Hawkins.
The FBI has issued a reward of $ 50,000 for information that leads to the arrest and extradition of the wedding.
Authorities say that the Wedding group became fatal in 2023, when members of the crime ring killed two members of a family in Canada as a retribution for a stolen drug shipment. Civil servants say that the murders turned out to be a case of incorrect identity.
Andrew Clark, who was arrested by the FBI on 8 October, and the wedding is said to have focused the murders, according to a press release from the US Department of Justice on Thursday.
The group is also accused of the murder of one person in May 2024 on a drug debt.
“He chose to become an important drug trafficking and he chose to become a murderer,” American lawyer Martin Estrada Reporters told Thursday.
Martin Estrada.
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty imagesIn connection with their research, the authorities seized cocaine, weapons, ammunition, cash and more than $ 3 million in cryptocurrency.
Wedding is also confronted with separate costs for drug trafficking in Canada from 2015.
Olympic field hockey medal winner Thomas Craig was arrested on Tuesday 6 August in Paris for trying to buy cocaine. The Paris Public Officor office announced in a Wednesday 7 August, explanation that local law enforcement officials witnessed a “cocaine transaction” in the 9th district of Paris. Officers arrested both the seller and the buyer, who was […]
“Those costs are very unsolved,” said Chris LeerChief inspector at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
According to federal data viewed by ESPNWedding was previously convicted in the US for conspiracy to spread cocaine and was sentenced to four years in prison in 2010.
After his release, Estrada said, is supposed to be protected by the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico while resuming his drug trafficking.
Wedding finished 24th in the parallel gigantic slalom at the Winter Olympics of 2002.
