Disgraced former Olympic snowboarder and alleged cocaine kingpin Ryan Wedding, who was among the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives, has been arrested in Mexico following a yearlong international manhunt.
Ryan Wedding, 44, competed for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City before authorities say he pivoted from elite sports to running a violent transnational drug trafficking operation. FBI Director Kash Patel was slated to make the announcement Friday morning in Ontario, California, according to multiple news reports.
An image of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, who is a fugitive charged with allegedly running and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation, is displayed on a video monitor along with bricks of cocaine during a news conference at the FBI offices in Los
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