Turns Out That Canadian Olympic Snowboarder Ryan Wedding Was Allegedly A Serious Drug Kingpin, Moving Major Weight, And Paid To Have A Federal Witness Murdered. Now The U.S. State Department Is Offering A Whopping $15 Million Bounty On Him
TMZ - Ryan Wedding is facing new charges in the U.S. after the Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned transnational drug kingpin allegedly ordered the killing of a federal witness in Colombia, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
Wedding, 44, competed for America's neighbors up north in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, before allegedly turning to a different type of "snow," becoming Canada's largest cocaine dealer (moving over 130k lbs. a year) and controlling "one of the most prolific and violent drug trafficking organizations in the world," according to the AG.
In a news conference in D.C. on Wednesday, Bondi, flanked by Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other top officials, outlined new charges against the retired athlete, and the accusations are wild.
Bondi claims that after Wedding, who is on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, was indicted by the U.S. government for murder, drugs, and other charges in late 2024, he put a bounty on the head of a witness who was set to testify against him in his case.
On January 31, 2025, the witness was shot dead.
"[Wedding] used a Canadian website called The Dirty News to post photographs of the witness and his wife in order to locate him, which ultimately succeeded. The witness was gunned down in a restaurant in Medellin before he could testify against Wedding," Bondi said.
The U.S. State Department is offering a whopping $15 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Wedding.
Back in October 2024, I blogged about Mr. Wedding's little run-in with the law, and how he was a wanted man...
Apologies from me for thinking Ryan Wedding was just another Sam Hurd, former athlete turned wannabe-scarface.
Little did I know he was allegedly actually fucking Scarface.
130,000 pounds of cocaine a year is no fucking joke.
Murdering witnesses set to testify against you is even less of a joke.
This is what our president would call "a bad hombre". Except he's not Mexican. He's actually from our northern border, so does that make him a bad canuck? A bad hab?
It was the Notorious B.I.G. who famously rapped, "Either you slingin crack rock, or you got a wicked jump shot". In Ryan Wedding's case, he had a wicked jump shot (he could shred the gnar at an Olympic level), and yet he STILL chose to sling crack rock. Lots and lots of crack rock.
What a shame.