Ex-Olympic Snowboarder Ryan Wedding Arrested, Pam Bondi Says (1)

Jan. 23, 2026, 4:25 PM UTC

Former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for allegedly running one of the world’s largest cocaine networks, has been arrested, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Wedding, who competed for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics, was being sought for allegedly helping to orchestrate a billion-dollar drug enterprise with Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel.

In November, the US placed a $15 million bounty on Wedding. The Justice Department said Wedding’s organization imported about 60 metric tons of cocaine a year into Los Angeles by semi-truck from Mexico — roughly the weight of 40 standard cars ...

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