The U.S. federal government is offering a $10 million reward for information on a former Olympic snowboarder.
On Thursday, the FBI added 43-year-old Ryan Wedding to its “10 Most Wanted” list with the State Department fronting the money for information leading to his arrest.
Wedding competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City for Canada, where he finished 24th overall in the parallel giant slalom.
Now he is wanted for allegedly running an international drug ring and for orchestrating murders related to it.
“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. “The alleged murders of his competitors make Wedding a very dangerous man.”
The FBI listed “El Jefe,” “Public Enemy,” and “James Conrad King” as alternate aliases for Wedding in its announcement.
In June, Wedding was charged—along with Andrew Clark, his second-in-command—with running a criminal enterprise and committing murder in connection to it and conspiring to possess, distribute, and export cocaine. In September, those charges were augmented in an indictment that accused Wedding, Clark, and 14 additional defendants of attempted murder and for arranging the shipment of roughly 60 tons of cocaine annually through Colombia, Mexico, California, and Canada with long-haul semitrucks.
The September indictment alleges Wedding and Clark directed two murders in November 2023 in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment. Wedding and Clark also called for another murder in May 2024 over a drug debt, according to the indictment.
Clark was arrested in October by Mexican authorities and was extradited back to the United States last week.
The FBI believes Wedding is in Mexico but said that he could be in the United States, Canada, or several other Central American nations.
