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2024 True Crime Updates: Idaho Murders, LISK, Mexico Surfer Deaths
Ryan James Wedding allegedly went down a slippery slope.
The erstwhile Olympic snowboarder—who competed for Canada astatine the 2002 Salt Lake City Games—is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation connected drug trafficking charges, according to the organization’s Most Wanted database arsenic good arsenic a merchandise from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Wedding is charged with 8 felonies, the merchandise states, including 2 counts of conspiracy to administer controlled substances, 1 number of conspiracy to export cocaine, 1 number of starring a continuing transgression enterprise, 3 counts of murder, and 1 number of effort to perpetrate murder.
“Ryan James Wedding is wanted for allegedly moving and participating successful a transnational cause trafficking operation,” his FBI Most Wanted introduction reads, “that routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, done Mexico and Southern California, to Canada, and different locations successful the United States.”
It continues, “Additionally, it is alleged that Wedding was progressive successful orchestrating aggregate murders successful furtherance of these cause crimes.”
E! News has reached retired to the U.S. Attorney Office for remark but has not yet heard back.
Speculating that the 43-year-old whitethorn beryllium residing successful Mexico, the FBI Most Wanted introduction confirms that a warrant for his apprehension was issued connected Sept. 17 and that the Bureau is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for accusation starring to Wedding’s, arrest, apprehension and extradition.
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According to the U.S attorney’s office, Wedding is 1 of 16 defendants indicted by prosecutors successful California for moving the alleged cause trafficking operation.
Prosecutors assertion Wedding and his colleagues shipped up to 827 pounds of cocaine successful a azygous month, moving it from Mexico to confederate California, and past to Ontario, Canada.
As of Oct.18, a Canadian antheral named Andrew Clark, 34, was arrested successful Mexico by section instrumentality enforcement and detained successful transportation to the cause trafficking indictment. In summation to facing the aforesaid charges arsenic Wedding, Clark was charged with an further number of murder.
E! News is successful the process of locating ineligible practice for Clark for comment.
Per the release, respective different members of the cognition person been arrested, though the merchandise doesn’t specify wherever they were apprehended, and are expected to look successful tribunal successful the coming weeks.
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If convicted, Wedding and Clark look up a mandatory minimum punishment of beingness successful situation for the execution and attempted execution charges, arsenic good arsenic for the continuing transgression endeavor charges, per the release. The cause charges transportation mandatory minimums of betwixt 10 and 15 years.
Of the cause operation, Drug Enforcement Administration peculiar cause Matthew Allen said wrong the U.S. Attorney’s property release, “The Wedding Drug Trafficking Organization and its unremitting, callous and greed-driven crimes has been operating for acold excessively long. They person triggered an avalanche of convulsive crimes, including brutal murders.”
He continued, “Wedding, the Olympian snowboarder, went from navigating slopes to contouring a beingness of incessant crimes.”
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