Wanted Olympian-turned-fugitive Ryan Wedding in custody, sources say

Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive Ryan Wedding has been captured, sources confirmed to Fox News connected Friday.

Wedding, 44, 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. 

Ryan Wedding, wanted by the FBI, was seen taking a signifier tally 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)

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

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Wedding and 14 different 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.

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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."

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Canada's Ryan Wedding successful the 2002 Olympics. (Tony Marshall/EMPICS via Getty Images)

Just past month, FBI officials confirmed that Mexican authorities seized $40 cardinal successful motorcycles believed to beryllium owned by Wedding. That quality came much than a period aft Wedding was deed with further charges and raised the reward for his seizure to $15 million.  

He participated successful the 2002 Olympics successful Salt Lake City aft missing retired connected the 1998 Games. It was the lone Olympics helium competed in.

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Fox News' Matt Finn contributed to this report.

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