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FBI Offers $15M for Olympic Snowboarder Turned Drug Kingpin

12/9/2025

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The FBI released a selfie of Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned drug kingpin, during its search.
The photo, taken last summer in Mexico, shows Wedding shirtless with a lion tattoo on his chest.
The FBI set a $15 million reward for Wedding and ties him to a global cocaine operation with the Sinaloa Cartel and to murders, including a federal witness killing in Colombia earlier this year.

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The FBI released a selfie of Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned drug kingpin, during its search.
The photo, taken last summer in Mexico, shows Wedding shirtless with a lion tattoo on his chest.
The FBI set a $15 million reward for Wedding and ties him to a global cocaine operation with the Sinaloa Cartel and to murders, including a federal witness killing in Colombia earlier this year.