From Daily Mail: Stunning new footage has emerged of Olympic snowboarder-turned-alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding arriving in the US in handcuffs following his arrest.
Wedding, who represented Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics, was among the FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives. He spent more than a decade on the run before handing himself into the authorities.
The 44-year-old is accused of leading a billion-dollar drug-smuggling operation and orchestrating several murders.
Wedding surrendered to US authorities in Mexico after being on the run for nearly a decade. The FBI, offering a $15 million reward for his capture, collaborated with Mexican officials to secure his arrest. He was believed to be there under the protection of the Sinaloa Cartel.
The former Olympian, who had been called a “modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar,” is said to have turned himself in to the US embassy in Mexico City. He had been speaking to US officials to discuss the terms of his surrender anfter authorities had been closing in and he was “running out of options.”
Wedding arrived in Ontario, California on Friday.
“This was a complex, high-stakes operation with zero margin for error. I was on the ground with our team in Mexico and witnessed extraordinary teamwork, precision, and trust between our agents and partners in Mexico,” Patel said in an interview with Vanity Fair. “After nearly a decade on the run, Ryan Wedding is now in US custody where he belongs.”
Read more at Daily Mail
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