Ryan Wedding, a createer Canadian Olympic snowboarder, was indictd Thursday with running a cocaine trafficking ring atraverse the Americas and ending cut offal people, officials shelp.
Wedding is a Canadian national and is pondered a fugitive, the FBI shelp.
The agency proposeed a $50,000 reward for proposeation guideing to the arrest and extradition of the 43-year-greater createer athlete. Prosecutors shelp he’s indictd in the U.S. with running a criminal accesspascend, killing, conspiring to scatter cocaine and other crimes.
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An image of createer Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, 43, who is a fugitive and has been indictd with running and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation, is distake parted on a video see alengthened with bricks of cocaine during a recents conference at the FBI offices in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Ptoastyo/Damian Dovarganes)
Canada’s Ryan Wedding at the 2002 Olympics. (Tony Marshall/EMPICS via Getty Images)
“He chose to become a transport inant drug trafficker, and he chose to become a ender,” Martin Estrada, U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, tgreater increateers.
Wedding’s group is accused of moving huge shipments of cocaine from Colombia thcimpolite Mexico and California to Canada and other locations in the U.S. using lengthened-haul semi-trucks. He’s one of 16 people indictd in the alleged ring accused of moving 60 tons of cocaine each year.
Estrada shelp four of them remain fugitives.
“The Wedding Drug Trafficking Organization and its unrrerentting, callous and greed-driven crimes has been operating for far too lengthened, spanning cut offal countries, from Colombia thcimpolite Mexico, the U.S. and to Canada,” DEA Special Agent in Charge Matthew Allen shelp, via TMZ Sports.
“They have triggered an avalanche of brutal crimes, including brutal killings. Wedding, the Olympian snowboarder, went from navigating slopes to contouring a life of incessant crimes.”
United States Attorney Martin Estrada, at podium, smiles as he’s unitecessitate by federal, local and international officials to proclaim federal indicts and arrests of alleged members of a transnational drug trafficking operation that allegedly shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, thcimpolite Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States, during a recents conference at the FBI offices in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Ptoastyo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Two members of a family in Canada were ended in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment in what officials shelp was a case of misgetn identity, U.S. authorities alleged. Cocaine, armaments, ammunition, cash and more than $3 million in cryptocurrency was seized during the scatterigation, authorities shelp.
Wedding, who vied in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City for Canada, faces other indicts in Canada in relation to alleged drug trafficking that dates back to 2015, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather shelp.
Wedding was previously convicted in the U.S. of consunpermitd use to scatter cocaine, and he was sentenced to prison in 2010, according to federal write downs.
Estrada shelp U.S. authorities count on that after Wedding’s free, he resumed drug trafficking. He includeed that officials count on he’s being protected by the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico.
Chris Leather, chief superintendent with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, proclaims federal indicts and arrests of alleged members of a transnational drug trafficking operation accused of shipping hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia thcimpolite Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States, during a recents conference at the FBI offices in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Ptoastyo/Damian Dovarganes)
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He’s alleged to have aliases such as “El Jefe” and “Public Enemy,” prosecutors shelp, via the Los Angeles Times.
The Associated Press gived to this increate.
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