Ryan James Wedding once competed for Team Canada in the Olympics, now he is wanted in the U.S. for drug trafficking and murder
A former Olympic snowboarder who is wanted in the United states for murder and drug trafficking was once named in a Ridge Meadows RCMP search warrant.
Wedding competed for Team Canada in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games and came 24th in the parallel giant slalom in snowboarding. In May, 2010, he was convicted of attempting to buy cocaine from a US government agent in 2008, and was sentenced to four years in prison, the site also stated. The policing agency said Wedding, born in 1981, goes by the aliases James Conrad King, or Jesse King and is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to his arrest and extradition.
"Ryan James Wedding is wanted for allegedly running and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation that routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada, and other locations in the United States.
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