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Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive, was captured in Mexico with the help of local authorities, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed Friday.
Bondi announced Wedding's capture in a post on X, adding that the Canadian citizen was flown to the United States, where he will “face justice.” Patel accompanied Wedding on the flight to the United States, sources said.
Ryan Wedding, wanted by the FBI, was seen practicing a race for the men's parallel giant slalom at the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Park City on February 13, 2002. (FBI | REUTERS/Jeff J. Mitchell)
“At my direction, Department of Justice @FBI agents have arrested another member of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list: Ryan Wedding, the former Olympic snowboarder turned alleged violent cocaine kingpin,” Bondi said.
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“This is a direct result of President Trump's law and order leadership. Under @POTUS, criminals have no safe harbor. Director Patel has worked tirelessly to bring fugitives to justice. We are grateful to our incredible ambassador Ron Johnson and Mexican authorities for assisting us in this case.”
Patel noted in a separate post on X that Wedding was the first fugitive added to the FBI's ten most wanted list during his tenure and “now, less than a year later, he is in custody.”
“Wedding is believed to have been hiding in Mexico for more than a decade and is wanted for cocaine trafficking and murder since 2024,” it said in part.
“This is the SIXTH most wanted fugitive this FBI has captured in one year: fugitives who had been on the run for nearly 40 years combined. That's no accident. President Trump is letting good cops be cops and the results speak for themselves.”
Wedding, 44, was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in March 2025 and is accused of running a transnational drug trafficking ring that “routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States,” according to the FBI.
He is also accused of orchestrating multiple murders and attempted murders as part of his drug trafficking operation.
Wedding and 14 other alleged associates were specifically charged with orchestrating the January 2025 murder of a witness who was shot to death at a restaurant in Colombia. He allegedly placed a bounty on the victim's head, thinking her death would lead to the dismissal of charges against him and the drug trafficking ring he allegedly heads, according to an indictment unsealed in November.
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The FBI has described Wedding as an “extremely violent criminal who is believed responsible for the murder of numerous people overseas.”
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Canada's Ryan wedding at the 2002 Olympics. (Tony Marshall/EMPICS via Getty Images)
Just last month, FBI officials confirmed that Mexican authorities seized $40 million worth of motorcycles believed to be owned by Wedding. That news came more than a month after Wedding was hit with additional charges and increased the reward for his capture to $15 million.
He participated in the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City after missing the 1998 Games. They were the only Olympic Games in which he competed.
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Fox News' Matt Finn contributed to this report.
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