FBI adds former Olympian to most wanted list, offers $10 million reward

The FBI added a erstwhile Olympian and a Canadian nationalist to its database of apical 10 astir wanted fugitives connected Thursday.

The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 cardinal for the seizure of Ryan Wedding, 43. Wedding, who competed successful a snowboarding lawsuit for Canada successful the 2002 wintertime Olympics, is wanted for allegedly moving "a transnational drug trafficking network."

FBI Los Angeles main Akil Davis said successful a property league Thursday that Wedding's alleged trafficking ringing "routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, done Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and different locations successful the United States, and for orchestrating aggregate murders and an attempted execution successful furtherance of these cause crimes."

"Wedding went from shredding pulverization connected the slopes astatine the Olympics to distributing pulverization cocaine connected the streets of U.S. cities and successful his autochthonal Canada," Davis said successful a statement.

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"The alleged murders of his competitors marque Wedding a precise unsafe man, and his summation to the database of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, coupled with a large reward connection by the State Department, volition marque the nationalist our spouse truthful that we tin drawback up with him earlier helium puts anyone other successful danger," helium added.

Davis noted that Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved the $10 cardinal reward for Wedding's capture. The FBI is besides offering an further $50,000 for accusation starring to his arrest.

Wedding was antecedently convicted successful the U.S. of conspiracy to administer cocaine, and helium was sentenced to situation successful 2010, according to national records. 

The FBI says Wedding's aliases see "El Jefe," "Giant," "Public Enemy," "James Conrad King," and "Jesse King." They accidental helium is astir 6'3" and 240 pounds.

Federal authorities archetypal issued an apprehension warrant for Wedding successful September of past year, but helium has inactive not been apprehended.

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Thursday's announcement comes conscionable aft the Justice Department announced the seizure of 1 of Wedding's alleged accomplices, Andrew Clark, 34. Clark, a Canadian national who was surviving in Mexico, was arrested by Mexican authorities successful October 2024 and is scheduled to beryllium arraigned Monday successful U.S. District Court successful Arizona. 

The FBI is cracking down connected cause trafficking crossed some of America's borders nether caller manager Kash Patel. (Anna Moneymaker/Kent Nishimura)

The indictment says Wedding and his associates conspired to present shipments of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Los Angeles to Canada utilizing long-haul semi-trucks.

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Wedding is charged with conspiracy to administer and person with intent to administer controlled substances; conspiracy to export cocaine; continuing transgression enterprise; execution successful transportation with a continuing transgression endeavor and cause crime; and effort to perpetrate execution successful transportation with a continuing transgression endeavor and cause crime.