FBI Seeks Olympic Snowboarder for Murder and Drug Trafficking
Ryan James Wedding allegedly went down a slippery slope.
The former Olympic snowboarder—who competed for Canada at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games—is wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on drug trafficking charges, according to the organization’s Most Wanted list as well as a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Wedding is charged with eight felonies, the release states, including two counts of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, one count of conspiracy to export cocaine, one count of leading a continuing criminal enterprise, three counts of murder, and one count of attempt to commit murder.
“Ryan James Wedding is wanted for allegedly running and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation,” his FBI Most Wanted entry reads, “that routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada, and other locations in the United States.”
It continues, “Additionally, it is alleged that Wedding was involved in orchestrating multiple murders in furtherance of these drug crimes.”
E! News has reached out to the U.S. Attorney Office for comment but has not yet heard back.