"Ryan Wedding hired a Colombian crime syndicate once linked to Pablo Escobar to track targets' cell phones in Canada and asked the group to kidnap and torture an FBI informant, according to new evidence provided by U.S. prosecutors. Before his recent arrest, the Ontario-born alleged drug kingpin is said to have complained that U.S. authorities "ruined his life." The fresh insight into the FBI's investigation targeting Wedding's purported transnational criminal enterprise comes from a summary of the U.S. case,"
"Ryan Wedding is seen in an official portrait before competing for Canada as a snowboarder at the 2002 Olympic Games in Utah. The headshot on the right, distributed in Oct. 2024 by the FBI, was taken for a 2013 Quebec driver's licence. (Canadian Olympic Committee; FBI) Wedding is said to have placed a bounty of up to $5 million US on Acebedo-Garcia after he learned of his former associate's co-operation with investigators."
Ryan Wedding hired a Colombian crime syndicate once linked to Pablo Escobar to track targets' cell phones in Canada and sought the group's help to kidnap and torture an FBI informant. Wedding allegedly placed a bounty of up to $5 million US on Jonathan Acebedo-Garcia after learning of his co-operation with investigators. Acebedo-Garcia was shot in the head five times by an unidentified hit squad in a Medellin restaurant in January 2025. A U.S. grand jury indictment names eight Canadians who face extradition to California. Wedding was arrested in Mexico, taken into U.S. custody, pleaded not guilty to 17 charges and denies the allegations.
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