$10 Million Reward For Former Olympic Snowboarder On FBI's 10 Most Wanted List For Murder, Drug Trafficking

A former Olympian snowboarder is now on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, which refers to him as "armed and dangerous."

Canadian Ryan Wedding, who competed in Giant Slalom snowboarding during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, is wanted for "allegedly running and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation that routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia" into the U.S. and Canada and for "orchestrating multiple murders."

The State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to Wedding's arrest and/or conviction.

From The Powdery Slopes To Pushing Powdered Cocaine

"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," Akil Davis, assistant director of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office, said in a Thursday press release.

"The alleged murders of his competitors make Wedding a very dangerous man, and his addition to the list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, coupled with a major reward offer by the State Department, will make the public our partner so that we can catch up with him before he puts anyone else in danger," Davis added.

If convicted, Wedding could face a mandatory minimum sentence of life in federal prison, according to the DOJ.

"As alleged in the superseding indictment, defendant Ryan Wedding—a former Olympian—led a transnational criminal organization that murdered innocent people and put thousands of kilograms of narcotics on our streets," said Acting United States 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 law enforcement and help us get Mr. Wedding into custody."

Whereabouts Unknown

Investigators have tracked Wedding to Mexico but have not ruled out the possibility that he may still be in the U.S., Canada, other Latin American countries, or elsewhere.

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