US EditionRyan Wedding, ex-Olympic snowboarder accused of being a drug kingpin, is arrested
- On Friday, Ryan Wedding, the former Olympic snowboarder, was arrested as the alleged leader of a violent drug-trafficking organization, the FBI says, releasing a photo taken this summer in Mexico.
- Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wedding, 44, was wanted for allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking network importing about 60 metric tons of cocaine a year into Los Angeles via semitrucks from Mexico, and he was charged with attempted murder and other counts.
- A grand jury indictment alleges Ryan Wedding oversaw a criminal enterprise, engaging in witness intimidation and enriching himself, while a federal witness was fatally shot after authorities said Wedding `placed a bounty` using a Canadian website.
- Authorities will announce more details at a Friday morning news conference, but details about what led to the arrest were not immediately available.
- The FBI had placed Wedding on its list of ten most wanted fugitives, offering a $15 million reward as FBI Director Kash Patel compared him to Pablo Escobar and Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán.
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The former snowboarder and Olympic participant from 2002 Ryan Wedding has been looking for drug smuggling and murder worldwide for years. US$15 million (around €13 million) has been suspended by the FBI as a bounty on the 44-year-old Canadian – now he has been arrested. According to NBC News and several US media, the case has now been over, US suspects have arrested Wedding, who was on the FBI list of the ten most wanted criminals, after years o…
U.S. authorities worked with Canadian and Mexican partners
"Ryan Wedding tormented several people and several families that will never be the same, but today they get the justice that they sought," Akil Davis, assistant director of the L.A. FBI field office during a news conference.Davis said American authorities…
The former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding was arrested. The U.S. media reported it. Wedding was one of the ten most wanted fugitives by the FBI, with a size of 15 million dollars, after being charged for managing a criminal organization, cocaine trafficking and murder, in an operation that extended between the United States, Canada, Mexico and Colombia. Attorney General Pam Bondi had previously stated that the Wedding organization gen…
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