00:00A former Olympic snowboarder is now
00:05facing some of the most serious criminal charges on the books.
00:08Ryan Wedding, who once...
00:10...impeded for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics, pleaded not guilty Monday...
00:15...to federal charges of running a billion-dollar drug trafficking operation and ordering multiple...
00:20...murders. U.S. prosecutors say Wedding moved as much as 60 tons of cocaine.
00:25Between Colombia, Mexico, Canada and Southern California and worked under the protection...
00:30...of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel. Authorities say he had been living in Mexico for more than a...
00:35...one decade. The FBI put him on the 10 most wanted list last year with a 15...
00:40...million-dollar reward on his head. Wedding was arrested in Mexico last week and...
00:45...blown to Southern California, where he appeared in court on Monday...
00:48...in a jail jumpsuit and leg shack...
00:50...a judge ordered him held without bail, saying he could not find conditions to ensure...
00:55...public safety. Wedding is due back in court February 11th. His trial is set for March 24th.
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