The FBI added a former Olympian and a Canadian citizen to its list of top 10 most sought after refugees on Thursday.
The US Department of State offers a reward of up to $ 10 million to capture Ryan Wedding, 43. Wedding, competing in a snowboarding event to Canada in winter -ol in 2002, is in demand for allegedly running “a transnational drug trafficking.”
The FBI Los Angeles chief Akil Davis said at a press conference on Thursday that wedding’s alleged trade in ring “routinely sent hundreds of kilogram cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and southern California, to Canada and other places in the United States and to orchestration of several murders and an attempted murder in the continuation of these drugs.
“Wedding went from shredding powder on the slopes of the Olympics to distributing powder cocaine on the streets of American cities and in his original Canada,” Davis said in a statement.
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“The alleged murders of his competitors make weddings a very dangerous man, and his addition to the list of ten most sought after refugees, combined with a large reward offering from the Ministry of State, will make the public our partner so we can catch him before putting someone in danger,” he added.
Davis noted that State Secretary Marco Rubio approved the $ 10 million rewards for Wedding’s Capture. The FBI also offers an additional $ 50,000 to information leading to his arrest.
Wedding was previously convicted in the United States of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and he was sentenced to prison in 2010, according to federal registers.
FBI says Wedding’s aliases include “El Jefe”, “Giant”, “Public Enemy”, “James Conrad King” and “Jesse King.” They say he is about 6’3 “and 240 pounds.
Federal authorities first issued an arrest warrant for wedding last September, but he still has not been arrested.
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Thursday’s message comes just after the Ministry of Justice announced the capture of one of Wedd’s alleged accomplice, Andrew Clark, 34. Clark, a Canadian citizen who lived In MexicoWas arrested by Mexican authorities in October 2024 and is scheduled to be arranged on Monday at the US District Court in Arizona.
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The indictment says that Wedding and his employees conspired to deliver shipments of hundreds of kg of cocaine from Los Angeles to Canada using long transport.
Wedding is accused of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intentions to distribute controlled substances; conspiracy to export cocaine; Continued criminal business; Murder in the context of a continued criminal company and drug crime; And try to commit murders in connection with a continued criminal company and drug crime.
