Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding is going through new U.S. prices after allegedly ordering the homicide of a federal witness in Colombia.
Attorney General Pam Bondi mentioned the 44-year-old, who competed within the 2002 Winter Olympics earlier than allegedly changing into one of Canada’s largest cocaine traffickers, ran “one of the most prolific and violent drug trafficking organizations in the world,” transferring greater than 130,000 kilos of cocaine per 12 months, in accordance with TMZ.
Speaking at a press convention in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday (Nov. 19), Bondi mentioned that after Wedding was indicted in late 2024, he allegedly positioned a bounty on a witness making ready to testify towards him. That witness was fatally shot on Jan. 31, 2025.
“[Wedding] used a Canadian website called The Dirty News to post photographs of the witness and his wife in order to locate him, which ultimately succeeded,” Bondi mentioned. “The witness was gunned down in a restaurant in Medellín before he could testify against Wedding.”
Bondi added that Wedding allegedly labored with the Sinaloa cartel to “flood not only American but also Canadian communities with cocaine coming from Colombia,” importing roughly 60 metric tons a 12 months into Los Angeles by way of semi-trucks.
Investigators have reportedly indicted greater than 35 folks and seized over 2,000 kilos of cocaine, weapons, greater than $3 million in cryptocurrency, and greater than $13 million in bodily belongings.
Wedding, a fugitive believed to be below cartel safety, now faces further prices together with homicide, witness tampering and intimidation, cash laundering, and drug trafficking.
The U.S. State Department is providing $15 million for data resulting in his seize.