Olympian Turned Drug Kingpin Ryan Wedding Accused Of Ordering Murder Of Witness

Ryan Wedding is going through new expenses within the U.S. after the Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned transnational drug kingpin allegedly ordered the killing of a federal witness in Colombia, Attorney General Pam Bondi stated.

Wedding, 44, competed for America’s neighbors up north within the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, earlier than allegedly turning to a special kind of “snow,” changing into Canada’s largest cocaine seller (transferring over 130k lbs. a yr) and controlling “one of the most prolific and violent drug trafficking organizations in the world,” in line with the AG.

In a information convention in D.C. on Wednesday, Bondi, flanked by Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and different prime officers, outlined new expenses in opposition to the retired athlete, and the accusations are wild.

Bondi claims that after Wedding, who is on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted record, was indicted by the U.S. authorities for murder, medication, and different expenses in late 2024, he put a bounty on the top of a witness who was set to testify in opposition to him in his case.

On January 31, 2025, the witness was shot lifeless.

“[Wedding] used a Canadian website called The Dirty News to post photographs of the witness and his wife in order to locate him, which ultimately succeeded. The witness was gunned down in a restaurant in Medellin before he could testify against Wedding,” Bondi stated.

“Wedding collaborates closely with the Sinaloa cartel, a foreign terrorist organization, to flood not only American but also Canadian communities with cocaine coming from Colombia. His organization is responsible for importing approximately 60 metric tons of cocaine a year into Los Angeles via semi-trucks from Mexico.”

The medication are then stated to have been distributed into U.S. cities and Canada.

Bondi says, in the middle of their investigation, greater than 35 folks have been indicted, over 2,000 kilos of coke and weapons seized, and over $3 million in crypto and over $13 million in “physical assets” recovered.

In addition to an array of expenses he was already going through, Wedding, a fugitive who is claimed to be intently protected by the cartel, will now must deal with expenses for murder, witness intimidation, cash laundering, and drug trafficking.