Who is Ryan Wedding? Olympian turned alleged murderous drug kingpin and top FBI target
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The FBI's newest Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitive was an Olympic snowboarder during another chapter in his life. Now he's on the run as an alleged drug kingpin and murderer.
Former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding was added to the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list, and the agency is offering $10 million to whomever turns him in. 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 an ex-wife involved in trouble along the way.
Here's a look at how the former snowboarder became one of the world's most dangerous criminals.
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 towns 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