Fugitive Ryan Wedding is seen in a picture taken sometime in 2024 and released by the FBI.
The FBI has released a new photo of Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder accused of running a transnational drug trafficking network. Wedding, 43, is charged with eight felonies in California, including murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise.The FBI has released a new photo of Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder accused of running a transnational drug trafficking network.
U.S. authorities announced last month that Wedding, 43, is charged with eight felonies in California, including murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise and drug crime. Investigators allege his crime ring orchestrated at least four violent killings in Ontario in the past year. According to a U.S. federal indictment, Wedding ran a $1-billion US criminal enterprise importing some 60 tons of Colombian cocaine a year, through Mexico and California, then onto other parts of the U.S. and Canada.
Wedding has been on the run since at least 2015, when the RCMP issued a warrant for his arrest. At the time, Mounties laid five charges against Wedding, in connection with cocaine imports and trafficking. He was previously convicted in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy in California and sentenced to a four-year prison term in 2010.
The U.S. indictment unsealed last month lists 18 aliases for Wedding, including James Conrad King, El Jefe and Public Enemy.
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