00:00Today we are here because of President Trump's incredible leadership and commitment to supporting
00:04law enforcement across the country and around the world. We are here today to announce another
00:09record historic achievement because of law enforcement partnerships across America and
00:14across the globe come together to fight crime in all corners of the earth. Today we are announcing
00:22a capture of another FBI's most wanted top 10 fugitive, Ryan Wedding. That makes six top 10
00:29FBI captures in one year alone. To put that in perspective, that's two more than the entirety
00:36of the prior administration and none of this would be possible without the tremendous leadership
00:41of Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice and our partners and prosecutors
00:45at the United States Attorney's Office here in LA and our Los Angeles Field Office. Here
00:50you'll see many of our brave partners including the Commissioner of the RCMP, the Chief of
00:55Police and LAPD, our LA Field Office ADEC, along with our partners from DEA and CBP and more.
01:01This is what a united front looks like. And just to tell you how bad of a guy Ryan Wedding
01:06is, he went from an Olympic snowboarder to the largest narco trafficker in modern times.
01:11He's a modern day El Chapo. He is a modern day Pablo Escobar. And he thought he could evade
01:16justice. But these brave men and women put together a prosecution package, put together an investigative
01:22package, put together an operations strategy. And here we are today bringing him to justice
01:27for trafficking hundreds of kilos of cocaine and also for the murder of innocent civilians.
01:33This individual and his organization in the Sinaloa Cartel poured narcotics into the streets of North
01:39America and killed too many of our youth and corrupted too many of our citizens. And that ends today.
01:46I also want to have a tremendous shout out to the government of Mexico. President Scheinbaum, Secretary
01:52Harfouch and the military and law enforcement officers in Mexico worked hand in glove with our
01:58teams on the ground there to apprehend last night in Mexico City, Ryan Wedding. I was privileged to be
02:04there on a previously planned trip. And this was a great operation that came together through
02:09interagency success because no one behind me and to the side of me cares about credit. They care about
02:15putting away the bad guys and safeguarding our communities. That is the leadership that President
02:20Trump has brought to the presidency. That is the support that he has brought to law enforcement
02:24from coast to coast. And I just can't say how thankful I am to be a small part of this and lead
02:30the FBI. These men and women do the hard work. But when you go after a guy like Ryan Wedding,
02:35it takes a united front. And that's what you're seeing here. You're seeing global partnerships
02:40from coast to coast. I want to give a special shout out to our ambassador in Mexico. Ambassador
02:48Ron Johnson quarterbacked this effort for us from Mexico for a year plus. As soon as he got to post at
02:55our new embassy compound there, he made this a priority and he came through. This is what leadership
03:00looks like. And this is a historic 2025 year the FBI is having. To put it in perspective, the FBI has had
03:0667,000 arrests this year alone. That is a 200% increase. The FBI has captured six of the top 10
03:14most fugitives on our board. The FBI has also seized enough fentanyl to kill 150 million Americans,
03:21a 31% increase. The FBI has arrested 35% more espionage corrupt actors from China, Russia,
03:29the DPRK and Iran. The FBI has found and identified 6,000 children that were missing. That is up 22%.
03:36All of these historic record-breaking numbers lead to another historic record-breaking number brought
03:42to you by President Trump's leadership. That is a 20% decline in the murder rate in the United
03:47States of America. That is an all-time record for the modern era. Our communities are safeguarded by
03:53these men and women. We are thankful to be partnered with the Department of Justice and the relentless
03:58efforts to safeguard our communities by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
04:04But we are not done today. We are going to get back on the plane and we have captured and apprehended
04:09another top 10 fugitive while we were in Mexico. We are going to head east and hand
04:13him over to local law enforcement authorities. I also want to give a huge shout out to state and
04:17local law enforcement. This work is not possible at all without them on the front lines every single
04:23day. They are the greatest partners we could ever have and thank God we have a President who backs the
04:28blue and that is what results look like. Personally for me at the FBI, I want to thank our hostage rescue
04:34team. I want to thank our special forces, excuse me, our special flight operations unit. I want to
04:39thank our headquarters component, our LA field office. This was an enterprise-wide success. The moving
04:46pieces to pull this off and apprehend one of the world's most wanted criminals and bring him to justice in
04:52the United States of America can only be done when you have leadership from the top with President
04:56Trump, the Attorney General and all these great leaders here. I'm going to turn it over to the
05:01assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles field office, Akil Davis, for some more comments
05:06on the case itself and the investigation.
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