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The United States Department of State's Narcotics Rewards Program is offering up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest of former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding after he was added to the FBI's '10 Most Wanted' list on Thursday (March 6), according to a news release.
Wedding, 43, is accused of running a multinational drug trafficking network and orchestrating multiple murders.
"Wedding went from shredding powder on the slopes at the Olympics to distributing powder cocaine on the streets of U.S. cities and in his native Canada," said Akil Davis, the assistant director of the FBI's Los Angeles field office, via ESPN. "The alleged murders of his competitors make Wedding a very dangerous man."
Wedding, 43, who represented Canada and finished 24th in the men's parallel giant slalom at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, is wanted on charges leading "a transnational organized crime group that engaged in cocaine trafficking and murder, including of innocent civilians,” U.S. Atty. for the Central District of California Martin Estrada announced in October 2024.
Wedding was reported to have led the drug trafficking organization from 2011 to 2024 with Andrew Clark, who was arrested in Mexico in September, serving as his second-in-command. The duo reportedly moved 60 tons of cocaine annually during what was described as an "extremely prolific" enterprise.
“They were killers. Anyone who got in there way they would target with violence, including murder,” Estrada said in September.
The FBI had previously offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to Wedding's arrest in October.