"WASHINGTON Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder from Canada who was among the FBI's top fugitives and faces charges related to multinational drug trafficking and the killing of a federal witness, has been arrested in Mexico, top Justice Department officials said Friday. Wedding, 44, is accused of running a drug trafficking operation, and officials say he orchestrated several killings to further the drug crimes. He was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, and authorities had offered a $15 million reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction."
"U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed Wedding's arrest in social media posts. Patel said Wedding was being transported to the U.S. after being apprehended Thursday night in Mexico, where U.S. authorities believe the former Olympian been hiding for more than a decade. "This is a huge day for a safer North America, and the world," Patel wrote on the social platform X, "and a message that those who break our laws and harm our citizens will be brought to justice.""
Ryan Wedding, 44, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder, has been arrested in Mexico on charges of running a multinational drug trafficking operation and killing a federal witness. Wedding had been on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list with a $15 million reward offered for information leading to his arrest and conviction. U.S. officials said he was being transported to the United States after an apprehension in Mexico; U.S. authorities believe he had been hiding for more than a decade. Mexican officials said two detainees left with U.S. authorities, and an anonymous Mexican official identified Wedding as a Canadian who turned himself in. Wedding competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics and finished 24th in the parallel giant slalom. Wedding was charged in 2024 with running a drug ring.
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