Report: US offering $10 million for arrest of former Olympian Ryan Wedding

The U.S. Department of State announced Thursday it is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding. The U.S. Department of State shared the news.

Wedding — added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List, and Andrew Clark, another Canadian citizen residing in Mexico — were charged in an original indictment with running a continuing criminal enterprise, murder, and conspiring to possess, distribute, and export cocaine. Wedding’s co-conspirator was arrested Oct. 8, 2024. The first superseding indictment, unsealed Oct. 16, 2024, named 14 additional co-defendants. Only Wedding and one other co-conspirator remain fugitives. Wedding, 43, is last known to be living in Mexico.

“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,” said Akil Davis, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office. “The alleged murders of his competitors make Wedding a very dangerous man.”

Ryan Wedding wanted for running drug trafficking ring, ordering murders

Prosecutors allege that Wedding ran a drug trafficking organization from 2011-2024. According to the Los Angeles Times, they moved cocaine from Colombia through Mexico into Southern California. They would then distribute it to Canada and other parts of the U.S., working with a Canadian drug transportation network managed by Hardeep Ratte and Gurpreet Singh.

According to prosecutors, the cocaine was stored in stash houses in Los Angeles before it was sent to Canada in trucks. Wedding and Clark allegedly hired contract killers to take hits out on people they believed got in the way of their business. Wedding was known to use many aliases, including “El Jefe” and “Public Enemy.” His organization was called “The Wedding Criminal Enterprise.”

Wedding competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He finished 24th for Canada in the men’s parallel giant slalom. In 2008, Wedding was arrested on cocaine trafficking charges. He was then convicted of conspiracy to possess and distribute contain in federal court in San Diego in 2009.

On3’s Brian Jones contributed to this report.