US EditionEx-Olympic Snowboarder on FBI’s Most-Wanted List Is Arrested in Mexico, Flown to Ontario
Ryan Wedding led a transnational drug operation moving hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and is linked to at least four murders, officials said.
- On Jan. 23, 2026, former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding was arrested in Mexico and flown to the U.S., escorted off a U.S. Department of Justice Boeing 737 at Ontario around 8 a.m., FBI Director Kash Patel said.
- Authorities say Ryan Wedding led a transnational cocaine-trafficking operation supported by the Sinaloa Cartel, moving hundreds of kilograms from Colombia to the United States and Canada, and evaded capture for over a decade until his arrest Thursday.
- Investigators reported Wedding was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list with a $15 million reward, $2 million additional rewards, 36 people arrested, and aliases including `El Jefe` and `Public Enemy`.
- Mexico's Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch said a Canadian citizen turned himself in at the U.S. embassy and is expected to appear in federal court Monday.
- U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wedding was indicted for orchestrating a witness killing in Colombia using Canadian website `The Dirty News`, while the RCMP say he faces 2015 Canadian charges and FBI Director Kash Patel called him a modern-day Pablo Escobar.
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He is a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who is also accused of drug trafficking and commissioning murders. Ryan Wedding, was arrested in Mexico and returned to the United States this Friday, announced the US judicial authorities.
He was known to have been in Mexico for about ten years under the protection of the Sinaloa cartel, according to the United States authorities, where he was driven.
FBI says suspected Canadian drug kingpin Ryan Wedding arrested
Ryan Wedding, a Canadian former Olympic snowboarder suspected of becoming a cocaine smuggling kingpin, has been arrested in Mexico, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Friday (January 23) in Ontario, California.
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Ex-Olympic snowboarder on FBI’s most-wanted list is arrested in Mexico, flown to Ontario
By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MIKE BALSAMO and AMY TAXIN, Associated Press Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, a top FBI fugitive, was arrested in Mexico and on Friday flown to the U.S. to face charges related to running a multinational drug trafficking ring and the killing of a federal witness. FBI Director Kash Patel, during a press conference on the tarmac at Ontario International Airport, said the capture of Wedding, 44…
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