Ex-Olympian Ryan Wedding arrives in US, escorted off plane in cuffs by FBI after Mexico capture

Former Team Canada Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, who allegedly ran a transnational cause ringing and orchestrated aggregate murders, was seen connected video being escorted by instrumentality enforcement aft being captured by the FBI Friday. 

Wedding was escorted successful handcuffs disconnected of a level arsenic helium landed successful Southern California astatine Ontario International Airport successful San Bernardino County surrounded by FBI agents. 

He volition look national charges.

​​Wedding, 44, surrendered to authorities aft a play of negotiations, sources confirmed to Fox News. While the circumstantial presumption of that statement were not known, sources indicated that the one-time Olympian turned himself successful aft facing mounting unit that near him incapable to proceed fleeing from U.S. authorities. 

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The FBI has described Wedding arsenic an "extremely convulsive transgression believed to beryllium liable for the execution of galore radical abroad."

Wedding was placed connected the FBI Ten Most Wanted database successful March 2025 and is accused of moving a transnational cause trafficking web that "routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia done Mexico and Southern California to Canada and different locations successful the United States," according to the FBI. 

He is besides accused of orchestrating aggregate murders and attempted execution arsenic a portion of his cause trafficking operation. 

Wedding and 14 alleged associates were specifically accused of orchestrating the January 2025 execution of a witnesser who was changeable and killed astatine a edifice successful Colombia. He allegedly placed a bounty connected the victim’s head, reasoning the victim's decease would pb to the dismissal of charges against him and the drug-trafficking ringing helium allegedly heads, according to an indictment unsealed successful November.

After missing retired connected the 1998 Winter Olympics, Wedding qualified for his archetypal and lone Olympic Games successful 2002 successful Salt Lake City. 

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Ryan Wedding, wanted by the FBI, took a signifier run, astatine right, for the men's parallel elephantine slalom of the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games successful Park City Feb. 13, 2002. (FBI; Reuters/Jeff J Mitchell)

In his lone event, the men's parallel elephantine slalom, Wedding finished successful 24th place. Switzerland's Philipp Schoch won gold, Sweden's Richard Richardson won metallic and Chris Klug of the U.S. took bronze. 

After the Olympics, Wedding enrolled astatine Simon Fraser University successful Vancouver.

Wedding was archetypal linked to transgression enactment successful 2006. He and different competitory snowboarder were named successful a hunt warrant for a location successful Maple Ridge, British Columbia, that was investigated for increasing ample quantities of marijuana, according to The Vancouver Sun. 

Police seized 6,800 marijuana plants from that house, but nary 1 was charged.

Wedding was arrested for the archetypal clip successful 2009 successful the U.S. aft traveling with 2 friends from Vancouver to California to allegedly bargain 24 kilograms of Colombian cocaine. 

When Wedding was tried, helium claimed helium was volunteering for respective crab agencies, was doing existent property investing and was grooming for the 2010 Olympics. But the Canadian Snowboard Federation said helium had not competed successful years, according to The Vancouver Sun. 

Wedding served a four-year jailhouse condemnation aft agreeing to forfeit much than $121,000 seized during an airdrome sting and agreeing to driblet an entreaty of his conviction.

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Ryan Wedding of Canada takes a signifier tally for the men's parallel elephantine slalom astatine the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games successful Park City Feb. 13, 2002.   (Reuters/Jeff J Mitchell)

In 2015, helium was charged with caller cause offenses successful Nova Scotia. That time, constabulary ne'er caught him. He had allegedly been connected the tally until Friday. 

Wedding is accused of transporting an estimated $1 cardinal successful cocaine. 

Fox News Digital's Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report. 

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