The Mexican government announced the seizure of assets linked to Ryan Wedding, a Canadian former Olympic athlete wanted by the FBI and identified as an operator connected to the Sinaloa Cartel.

The United States government is offering a reward of up to $15 million for information that leads to the arrest of the former Canadian Olympic athlete who is now one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives. According to authorities in Mexico, four raids were confirmed at residences in Mexico City and the State of Mexico, related to Wedding. During the raids, members of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), in coordination with armed forces, located doses of methamphetamine and marijuana. They also seized 62 motorcycles, two vehicles, works of art, two Olympic medals, live ammunition, a magazine, and various documents. According to the FBI, Ryan James Wedding is wanted for allegedly directing and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation that routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States. Ryan Wedding, whose aliases include “El Jefe,” “Giant,” “Public Enemy,” “James Conrad King,” and “Jesse King,” was born in Thunder Bay, Canada, and competed in the Giant Slalom snowboarding competition during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. In June 2024, Wedding and his second-in-command, Andrew Clark, 34, also Canadian, were indicted in the Central District of California for leading a continuing criminal organization. committing murder in connection with a continuing criminal organization and various drug-related offenses; and conspiring to possess, distribute, and export cocaine. Clark, who was arrested last October by Mexican authorities,He was among the 29 fugitives that Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced had arrived in the United States from Mexico in March of this year. The indictment alleges that Wedding, Clark,and others conspired to ship large quantities of cocaine from Southern California to Canada through a Canadian-based drug transportation network run by Hardeep Ratte, 46, and Gurpreet Singh, 31, both of Ontario, Canada. The cocaine shipments were transported from Mexico to the Los Angeles area, where members of the cocaine trafficking organization stored the cocaine in stash houses before handing it off to couriers in the transportation network for shipment to Canada via long-haul trucks. As alleged in the superseding indictment, defendant Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic athlete, led a transnational criminal organization that murdered innocent people and placed thousands of kilograms of “Narcotics on our streets,” declared Acting US Attorney Joseph T. McNally. "The reward offered today will help bring this defendant to justice in the United States. We urge anyone with information about Wedding to contact the authorities and help us apprehend him."

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