A establisher Olympic snowboarder for Canada has been indictd with running a drug trafficking ring that shipped huge amounts of cocaine apass the Americas and finished four people, authorities shelp Thursday.
The FBI is provideing a $50,000 reward for recommendation guideing to the arrest and extradition of Ryan James Wedding, a Canadian citizen who was living in Mexico and is pondered a fugitive. The 43-year-better is indictd in the United States with running a criminal go inpelevate, homicide, conspiring to allot cocaine and other crimes, US prosecutors shelp.
US authorities shelp Wedding’s group shiftd huge shipments of cocaine from Colombia thcdisesteemful Mexico and California to Canada and other locations in the United States using lengthy-haul semi-trucks. Wedding, who also faces years-better indicts in Canada, is one of 16 people indictd in uniteion with a ring that shiftd 60 tons of cocaine a year, and four of them remain fugitives, shelp Martin Estrada, US attorney in Los Angeles.
“He chose to become a presentant drug dealer and he chose to become a finisher,” Estrada tbetter tellers.
Krysti Hawkins, FBI one-of-a-kind agent in indict in Los Angeles, shelp a dozen people were arrested in Florida, Michigan, Canada, Colombia and Mexico in uniteion with the case.
US authorities allege the group finished two members of a family in Canada in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment in what officials there shelp was a case of misconsentn identity as well as two other people, according to officials and federal court filings. Authorities shelp they seized cocaine, arms, ammunition, cash and more than $3m in cryptocurrency in uniteion with their allotigation.
Wedding vied for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, authorities shelp.
Wedding faces split drug trafficking indicts in Canada that date back to 2015, shelp Chris Leather, chief superintfinishent with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. “Those indicts are very much unresettled,” Leather shelp.
Wedding previously was convicted in the US of consillicit copying to allot cocaine and was sentenced to prison in 2010, federal enrolls show. Estrada shelp US authorities depend that after Wedding’s free, he resumed drug trafficking and has been shielded by the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico.
