Ryan Wedding arrested after manhunt for ex-Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin, sources say

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Former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, an alleged drug kingpin who’s been accused of orchestrating multiple murders, has been arrested, three sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

Wedding, a 44-year-old Canadian national, was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list last year. He was believed to have been living in Mexico.

Wedding has been accused of running a major drug trafficking network that moved cocaine from Columbia through Mexico to the U.S. and Canada.

In November, Wedding was accused of placing a “multimillion-dollar bounty” on a federal witness who was involved in a narcotics case against him.

According to the FBI, Wedding and his second-in-command Andrew Clark, 34, allegedly also ordered the killings of two members of a Canadian family in 2023 in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment.

The pair are also accused of directing the killing of another person in 2024 over a drug debt, according to the FBI.