"Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder for Canada who was among the FBI's top fugitives and faces charges related to multi-national drug trafficking and the killing of a federal witness, was arrested Friday, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. Wedding, 44, is accused of running a drug trafficking operation, and officials say he orchestrated several killings to further the drug crimes."
"In November, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that Wedding had also been indicted on charges of orchestrating the killing of a witness in Colombia to help him avoid extradition to the U.S. Authorities said Wedding and co-conspirators used a Canadian website called The Dirty News to post a photograph of the witness so he could be identified and killed. The witness was then followed to a restaurant in Medellin in January and shot in the head."
Ryan Wedding, 44, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder, was arrested in Mexico on charges of running a multinational drug trafficking operation and orchestrating multiple killings to further those crimes. He was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list and had a $15 million reward offered for information leading to his arrest and conviction. Arrest confirmation came from two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss details and spoke on condition of anonymity. A news conference with FBI Director Kash Patel in California was scheduled to announce the arrest. Wedding was charged in 2024 with running a semitruck-based cocaine ring moving drugs between Colombia, Mexico, Southern California and Canada. Authorities say he used aliases including El Jefe, Public Enemy and James Conrad Kin and faces separate Canadian drug trafficking charges dating back to 2015.
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