Kash Patel says Olympic kingpin Ryan Wedding's capture is latest success in Trump’s crackdown on crime

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FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday touted the agency’s arrest of Olympian-turned-fugitive kingpin Ryan Wedding, framing the capture as central to the FBI’s broader crime-fighting success under President Donald Trump.

Patel confirmed that Wedding, 44, was taken into custody Thursday night in Mexico as part of a multi-agency operation involving Mexican authorities, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Los Angeles Police Department and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The FBI announced Friday that they had captured former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding after a monthslong manhunt. (FBI)

Wedding marked the sixth fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list captured under Patel’s tenure. 

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"To put that in perspective, that's two more than the entirety of the prior administration, and none of this would be possible without the tremendous leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice and our partners and prosecutors at the United States Attorney's Office here in LA and our Los Angeles field office," Patel said.

Wedding, 44, was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list in March 2025 and is accused of running a transnational drug trafficking network that "routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States," according to the FBI. 

He is also accused of orchestrating multiple murders and attempted murder as part of his drug trafficking operation. 

"Just to tell you how bad of a guy Ryan Wedding is, he went from an Olympic snowboarder to the largest narco-trafficker in