Ryan Wedding, a establisher Canadian Olympic snowboarder, was accused Thursday with running a cocaine illicit trade ring apass the Americas and ending cut offal people, officials shelp.
Wedding is a Canadian national and is pondered a fugitive, the FBI shelp.
The agency recommended a $50,000 reward for inestablishation directing to the arrest and extradition of the 43-year-greater establisher athlete. Prosecutors shelp he’s accused in the U.S. with running a criminal accesspascend, killing, conspiring to spread cocaine and other crimes.
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An image of establisher Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, 43, who is a fugitive and has been accused with running and participating in a transnational drug illicit trade operation, is disapplyed on a video watch aprolonged with bricks of cocaine during a novels conference at the FBI offices in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/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 tellers.
Wedding’s group is accused of moving big shipments of cocaine from Colombia thraw Mexico and California to Canada and other locations in the U.S. using prolonged-haul semi-trucks. He’s one of 16 people accused 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 unrdisaccuseting, heartless and greed-driven crimes has been operating for far too prolonged, spanning cut offal countries, from Colombia thraw 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 joined by federal, local and international officials to proclaim federal accuses and arrests of alleged members of a transnational drug illicit trade operation that allegedly shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, thraw Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States, during a novels conference at the FBI offices in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/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 misconsentn identity, U.S. authorities alleged. Cocaine, armaments, ammunition, cash and more than $3 million in cryptocurrency was seized during the spendigation, authorities shelp.
Wedding, who contendd in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City for Canada, faces other accuses in Canada in relation to alleged drug illicit trade that dates back to 2015, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather shelp.
Wedding was previously convicted in the U.S. of consillicit copying to spread cocaine, and he was sentenced to prison in 2010, according to federal sign ups.
Estrada shelp U.S. authorities depend that after Wedding’s liberate, he resumed drug illicit trade. He inserted that officials depend he’s being geted by the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico.
Chris Leather, chief superintendent with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, proclaims federal accuses and arrests of alleged members of a transnational drug illicit trade operation accused of shipping hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia thraw Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States, during a novels conference at the FBI offices in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/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 tell.
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