Who is Ryan Wedding? Olympian turned alleged murderous drug kingpin and FBI captive

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Former Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding was captured by the FBI government in Mexico on Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed. The Canadian previously evaded capture by the FBI for several months after being added to its Ten Most Wanted list last March. 

Wedding is alleged to have run a transnational drug trafficking ring that shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia through Mexico and Southern California to Canada and other locations in the U.S. 

He's also alleged to have orchestrated and attempted multiple murders.

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He even reportedly got his ex-wife involved in his trouble along the way. 

Here's a timeline of the former snowboarder's fall to crime.

Wedding was born in 1981 in the town of Thunder Bay, Ontario.

It was a town once known for shipping lumber and grain via boats and railroads. But its shipping industry diminished in the ‘70s and ’80s, around the time Wedding was born, due to Canada's development of highways that enabled trucking. 

The town has since become one of the more crime-ridden in the country. From 2012 to 2014, and again from 2016 to 2019, Thunder Bay had the highest per-capita rate of homicide among Canadian cities, according to the nation's census. 

A view of Thunder Bay, Ontario, from Hillcrest Park. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Wedding came from a family of skiers. His father, Rene, an engineer, skied in college. His mother, Karen, had a brother who skied on the Canadian national team. Wedding's grandparents even ran a small ski hill in the