"Wedding is an enigma to sociology departments worldwide. A precocious snowboarder, he joined the Canadian national team at 15 and, at 21, competed in the parallel giant slalom at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Known by the aliases King and James Conrad, after a character in the 2017 film Kong: Skull Island, Wedding comes from a well-to-do middle-class family in British Columbia. After the Olympics, he began studying at a university in the Vancouver metropolitan area,"
"But his academic adventure lasted only two years, as Rolling Stone reporter Jesse Hyde, who has been tracking him since 2009, recalls. Drawn to the nightlife and the violent local crime scene of those years, and to the control of the marijuana market, Wedding began a career as a security guard at the city's clubs and bars, while simultaneously setting up a massive marijuana-growing operation. In 2006, authorities seized his warehouses, plants, and equipment, and Wedding had to start all over again."
Ryan Wedding is a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who became one of the Americas' largest cocaine traffickers. U.S. authorities tracked him for years and he was placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list before being transferred to the United States. Mexican and U.S. authorities coordinated his transfer alongside other priority targets, including Alejandro Rosales Castillo. Wedding joined the Canadian national team at 15 and competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He grew up in a well-to-do middle-class British Columbia family, began university studies funded by his parents, left after two years, worked nightlife security, operated large marijuana grows seized in 2006, moved into real estate, and escalated into international drug trafficking.
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