Former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding pleaded not guilty to all charges at his first appearance in federal court in California on Jan. 26.
Wedding has been charged with conspiracies to import cocaine into the United States, commit murder, and launder money, among other charges.
Prosecutors allege that Wedding, a Canadian, operated a “billion-dollar drug trafficking operation” and was the largest supplier of cocaine to Canada, which was smuggled through the United States.
Wedding appeared at the federal district court in Santa Ana, California, for his arraignment, which was his first court appearance.
The indictment alleges that Wedding’s criminal enterprise manufactured cocaine in Colombia, smuggled it into Mexico via boats and planes, and then on to the United States over the border through semi-trucks….