Fugitive Olympic snowboarder faces new accusations as feds raise reward for his capture to $15M

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Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding was slapped with two additional counts of witness tampering, intimidation, murder, money laundering, and drug trafficking and federal officials raised the reward for his capture to $15 million on Wednesday.

Wedding, 44, and 14 other alleged associates were accused of orchestrating the January 2025 murder of a witness who was shot and killed at a restaurant in Colombia. Officials said Wedding placed a bounty on the victim’s head thinking their death would lead to the dismissal of charges against him and the drug-trafficking ring he is allegedly the head of.

Wedding is on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List and is described as "extremely violent criminal believed to be responsible for the murder of numerous people abroad," according to federal officials.

"You do not get to be a drug kingpin and evade the law," FBI Director Kash Patel said. "Make no mistake about it. Ryan Wedding is a modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar. He’s a modern-day iteration of ‘El Chapo’ Guzman. This Justice Department and this FBI will work with our Canadian counterparts and government officials across the world to bring him to justice.

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Ryan Wedding of Canada takes a practice run for the men's parallel giant slalom of the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Park City on Feb. 13, 2002.   (REUTERS/Jeff J Mitchell)

"He is responsible for engineering a narco-trafficking and narco-terrorism program that we have not seen in a long time. He will not evade justice. We are here today because this Department of Justice behind the attorney general’s (Pam Bondi)