Olympian snowboarder turned drug lord Ryan El Jefe Wedding added to FBIs Ten Most Wanted List

This snowboarder got into the wrong kind of powder.A former Canadian Olympian turned alleged drug lord who’s accused of ordering several murders has been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list — with officials offering $10 million for information that leads to his arrest.Ryan “El Jefe” Wedding, 43, who competed as a snowboarder for the 2002 Canadian Olympic team, is wanted for allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking network that shipped hundreds of pounds of cocaine from Columbia to Canada by way of California and Mexico, the Department of Justice said in a Thursday press release.

Wedding allegedly also orchestrated the murders of several people who owed money to the slope-dope and an accomplice who is already in US custody.The State Department is offering a $10 million reward for anyone who can provide information that leads to the capture of “El Jefe.” “Wedding went from shredding powder on the slopes at the Olympics to distributing powder cocaine on the streets of US cities and in his native Canada,” Akil Davis, Assistant Director of the FBI’s LA Field Office, said in the statement.“The alleged murders of his competitors make Wedding a very dangerous man, and his addition to the list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, coupled with a major reward offer by the State Department, will make the public our partner so that we can catch up with him before he puts anyone else in danger,” Davis added.An alleged accomplice of Wedding’s, Andrew Clark, 34, also a Canadian, was arrested in Mexico in October and extradited to the US last week.A month before Clark’s arrest, he and Wedding were named in an indictment from the Central District of California that alleged the pair operated the transnational criminal enterprise.The duo allegedly kept the drugs in a stash house in Los Angeles before using long-haul semi-trucks to transport the cocaine to Canada, according to authorities.Wedding and Clark stand accused of directing the Nove...