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FBI officials successful Los Angeles said $40 cardinal worthy of motorcycles believed to beryllium owned by erstwhile Canadian Olympic snowboarder and FBI fugitive Ryan Wedding were seized by Mexican authorities successful a number of busts successful December.
Officials revealed nan seizures successful a station connected societal media connected Wednesday much than a period aft Wedding was deed pinch further charges and raised nan reward for his seizure to $15 million.
Ryan Wedding of Canada takes a believe tally for nan men's parallel elephantine slalom of nan Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games successful Park City connected Feb. 13, 2002. (REUTERS/Jeff J Mitchell)
Wedding connected nan FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.
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"This month, Mexican authorities executed aggregate hunt warrants and seized a ample number of motorcycles pinch an estimated worth of astir $40 cardinal USD that are believed to beryllium owned by FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Ryan James Wedding," nan announcement read.
"Wedding is wanted for allegedly moving and participating successful a transnational supplier trafficking cognition and for his alleged engagement successful orchestrating aggregate murders successful furtherance of supplier crimes. The U.S. is offering a reward of up to $15 cardinal for accusation starring to his apprehension and/or conviction."
Officials revealed nan seizures successful a station connected societal media Wednesday much than a period aft Wedding was deed pinch further charges and raised nan reward for his seizure to $15 million. (FBI)
Wedding, 44, and 14 different alleged associates were accused of orchestrating nan January 2025 execution of a witnesser who was changeable and killed astatine a edifice successful Colombia. Officials said Wedding placed a bounty connected nan victim’s caput reasoning their decease would lead to nan dismissal of charges against him and nan drug-trafficking ringing he is allegedly nan caput of.
The FBI has described Wedding arsenic an "extremely convulsive criminal believed to beryllium responsible for nan execution of galore group abroad."
FUGITIVE OLYMPIC SNOWBOARDER FACES NEW ACCUSATIONS AS FEDS RAISE REWARD FOR HIS CAPTURE TO $15M
"You do not get to beryllium a supplier kingpin and evade nan law," FBI Director Kash Patel said during a news convention past month. "Make nary correction astir it. Ryan Wedding is simply a modern-day loop of Pablo Escobar. He’s a modern-day loop of ‘El Chapo’ Guzman. This Justice Department and this FBI will activity pinch our Canadian counterparts and authorities officials crossed nan world to bring him to justice."
Wedding is allegedly responsible for trafficking tons of cocaine done Colombia and Mexico to beryllium distributed successful nan U.S. and Canada and uses cryptocurrency to hide his wealth. The FBI has said that Wedding has ordered dozens of murders successful North America and Latin America.
Officials revealed nan seizures successful a station connected societal media Wednesday much than a period aft Wedding was deed pinch further charges and raised nan reward for his seizure to $15 million. (FBI)
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He participated successful nan 2002 Olympics successful Salt Lake City aft missing retired connected nan 1998 Games. It was nan only Olympics he competed in.
Fox News Digital’s Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.
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