The US State Department offers a huge reward for capturing a former Olympic snowboarder accused of being the leader of an important transnational drug trafficking organization and orchestrated several crimes.
Former Snowboarder Olympic Ryan Wedding is searched by FBI Photo: FBI
The FBI added to Ryan Wedding, 43, on the list of the 10 most seeking offenders in the world, announcing the $ 10 million offer of the US State Department.
Wedding is searched for led a drug trafficking network “who regularly sent hundreds of kilograms of cocaine in Colombia, through Mexico and southern California, in Canada and other locations in the United States, and because it orchestrated several crimes and an attempt to crime in favor of these drug offenses ”, The FBI announced in a statement, according to CNN.
Among its pseudonyms, according to the FBI, are “El Jefe ”“Public Enemy“And”James Conrad King ”.
Wedding was accused in June last year by crime and drug offenses.
These charges were completed in September by charging. According to which Wedding and other people would have arranged the transport of approximately 60 tons of cocaine a year, sitting with long -distance semi -trailer to transport drugs between Colombia, Mexico, South California and Canada.
“Wedding has passed the powder on the slopes at the Olympic Games to the distribution of powder cocaine on the streets of American cities and in its native country, Canada. The alleged assassinations of his competition make Wedding a very dangerous man, and his addition to the list of the ten fugitives, along with a major reward offered by the State Department, will make our partner public, so that we can catch him before he puts someone else in danger. “said Akil Davis, deputy director of FBI Los Angeles Field Office on Thursday.
The reward of $ 10 million offered by the Bureau for International Business on Narcotics and the application of the Law of the State Department for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Wedding was authorized by the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the FBI said.
The US authorities claim that the group killed two members of a family in Canada as reprisals for a stolen drug transport.
Wedding has competed for Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City, where he ranked 24th in Slalom huge parallel, before leading the billion dollars operation in Mexico for over 12 years, officials said.
