Seven Canadians have been apprehended for extradition to the United States as part of an investigation involving a former Canadian Olympian-turned-alleged drug lord who is wanted for the murder of a federal witness in January.
Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta residents were identified by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI, and the RCMP this week as allegedly being involved in the suspected drug empire of Ryan James Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder who now sits atop the FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives list. The accused includes a lawyer, a musician, and a news website operator.
Wedding, who represented Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, has been accused by the FBI of heading a transnational drug trafficking operation that ships hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia to the United States and Canada via Mexico and southern California. The FBI raised the award to $15 million on Nov. 19 for information leading to Wedding’s capture….