The FBI added former Olympians and Canadians to their list of the top 10 most wanted fugitives on Thursday.
The US Department of State offers a reward of up to $10 million for capturing Ryan's wedding, who competed in the Canadian snowboarding event at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
FBI Los Angeles chief Akil Davis said at a press conference Thursday that the wedding trafficking ring “drivingly shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Columbia to Mexico and Southern California, Canada and elsewhere in the United States, organising multiple murders and attempting to kill more of these drug subjects.”
“The wedding was to shred powder on the slopes of the Olympics, leading to distribution of powder cocaine on the streets of American cities and in Canada, his native country,” Davis said in a statement.
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“The alleged murder of his competitors will make the wedding a very dangerous man and, coupled with a major reward offer by the State Department, will reveal our partners, in addition to the list of the 10 most wanted fugitives, so that he can catch up with him before putting anyone else in danger,” he added.
Davis pointed out that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has approved a $10 million reward for the capture of the wedding. The FBI is also offering an additional $50,000 for information that leads to his arrest.
Federal records show that the wedding was previously convicted in the US for conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
According to the FBI, wedding aliases include “Elgev,” “Giant,” “Public Aname,” “James Conrad King,” and “Jesse King.” They say he's about 6'3″ and 240 pounds.
Federal authorities first issued a wedding arrest warrant last September, but he has not yet been arrested.
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Thursday's announcement comes shortly after the Justice Department announced the capture of one of Andrew Clark, one of the wedding accomplices. 34. Clark, a Canadian citizen who lived in Mexico, was arrested by Mexican authorities in October 2024 and is scheduled to be arrested Monday in Arizona U.S. District Court.
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The indictment says the wedding and his companions conspired to deliver hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Los Angeles to Canada using longhall semi-trucks.
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The wedding is charged with conspiracy to distribute and own controlled substances with intent to distribute. Conspiracy to export cocaine; an ongoing criminal enterprise. Murders related to ongoing criminal enterprises and drug crimes. They attempt to commit murder in connection with ongoing criminal enterprises and drug crimes.
