A $10 million reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder wanted for running an international drug trafficking ring and orchestrating multiple drug-related murders.
On Thursday, the FBI added 43-year-old Ryan Wedding to its 10 Most Wanted list and announced a $10 million offer from the State Department.
“Wedding went from distributing powder on the slopes during the Olympics to dealing cocaine on the streets of the United States and in his native Canada,” said Akil Davis, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office.
“The alleged murders of his rivals make Wedding an extremely dangerous man.”
According to the FBI, his aliases include “El Jefe,” “Public Enemy,” and “James Conrad King.”
Wedding was charged with murder and drug-related crimes last June.
In September, those charges were expanded in an amended indictment alleging that Wedding and others organized the shipment of about 60 tons of cocaine a year, using long-haul semitrailers to transport the drugs between Colombia, Mexico, Southern California and Canada.
When the new indictment was announced in October, the FBI said about a dozen people had been arrested in the case.
U.S. authorities say the group killed two family members in Canada in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment that officials said was a case of mistaken identity, as well as two other people, according to government records and federal court documents.
Wedding finished 24th in the parallel giant slalom at the 2002 Olympics.
Sourse: breakingnews.ie
