Who is Ryan Wedding?
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Ryan Wedding is a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who competed at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. He is now a fugitive, accused of leading a major transnational drug trafficking organization, collaborating with the Sinaloa cartel, and orchestrating murders, including that of a federal witness. Wedding is on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, with a $15 million reward for his capture, and is compared to a modern-day Pablo Escobar.
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Ryan Wedding labelled modern-day Pablo Escobar by FBI
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- Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder, is accused by the FBI of leading a major narco-trafficking and narco-terrorism operation. 4s
- Seven alleged associates, including Wedding's lawyer Deepak Paradkar, were arrested in Canada with RCMP assistance and face extradition to the U.S. 1m 8s
- Wedding and his associates are accused of involvement in the murder of a key witness, Jonathan Acevedo Garcia, in Colombia, with allegations that Paradkar advised on the killing. 39s
- Authorities allege a Canadian website was used to post identifying information about the witness and his wife to facilitate the murder; the website operator was also arrested. 3m 43s
- The U.S. State Department increased the reward for information leading to Wedding's arrest from $10 million to $15 million, while Wedding remains at large. 1m 54s
