00:00Former Olympian turned drug trafficker arrested after year on FBI
00:05Most Wanted List. Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding was arrested after
00:10nearly a year on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. Authorities allege he led
00:15a major international drug trafficking network moving cocaine from Colombia into the U.S.
00:20in Canada and was linked to multiple homicides. Further details are expected.
00:25Wedding had been on the run for more than a year before his apprehension. Wedding was
00:30added to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List in early 2025. In November,
00:35federal authorities increased the reward for information leading to his arrest or prosecution.
00:40to $15 million, the highest bounty offered for any fugitive on the FBI's
00:45list at the time. Before his alleged criminal activities, Wedding competed internationally.
00:50as a snowboarder and represented Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics in
00:55Utah. Federal officials allege that after his athletic career ended, Wedding became a
01:00defensive criminal activity.
01:01and became deeply involved in organized crime, eventually overseeing a sophisticated co-
01:05trafficking network according to authorities wedding allegedly smuggled
01:10approximately 60 metric tons of cocaine into the united states through mexico
01:15drugs entering primarily through southern california before being distributed across u.s
01:20cities and into canada wedding went from shredding powder on the slopes at the
01:25olympics to distributing powder cocaine on the streets of u.s cities and in his
01:30native canada said akil davis assistant director of the fbi's los angeles
01:35field office when wedding was placed on the most wanted list in march in november
01:40wedding was charged with ordering the killing of a federal witness who was scheduled to testify against
01:45him further escalating efforts to locate and arrest him investigators believed wedding
01:50was hiding in mexico with ties to the sinaloa cartel and may have altered his appearance to a
01:55evade capture his alleged deputy andrew clark was arrested in 2024
02:00before and extradited authorities linked the pair to multiple murders including
02:05including a 2023 family killing in ontario and a 2024 slaying over
02:10drug debts wedding's arrest brings an end to one of the fbi's most high
02:15of the fbi's most high-profile fugitive manhunts in recent years federal prosecutors are expected to pursue
02:20multiple charges related to drug trafficking conspiracy and homicide as the case
02:25moves forward
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