The new Top 10 more wanted FBI was an Olympic snowboarder for another chapter in his life. Now he is fleeing as an alleged king of drugs and murderer.
The former Canadian Olympic of Ryan’s wedding was added to the most wanted FBI list of fugitives, and the agency offers $ 10 million to those who deliver it. It is alleged that the wedding directed a transnational drug trafficking ring that sent hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia through Mexico and southern California to Canada and other locations in the United States.
It also alleges to orchestrated and tried multiple murders.
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According to reports, an ex -wife involved in problems on the road was involved.
Here is a look at how the former snowboarder became one of the most dangerous criminals in the world.
Childhood
The wedding was born in 1981 in the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
It was a city once known for the sending of wood and grain through ships and railways, but its ship industry decreased in the 70s and 80s around the time the wedding was born due to the development of Canada roads that allowed trucks.
Since then, the city has become one of the cities more full of crimes in the country. From 2012 to 2014, and again from 2016 to 2019, Thunder Bay had the highest per capita homicide rate among Canadian cities, according to the nation’s census.
A view of Thunder Bay, Ontario, from Hillcrest Park. (Group of Education Images/Universal Images through Getty Images)
The wedding came from a family of skiers. His father, Rene, engineer, ski at the university. His mother, Karen, had a brother who ski in the Canadian national team. The wedding grandparents even ran a small ski hill in the city.
And when the wedding pursued winter sports, it quickly exhibited a necessary feature for implacable competitive and criminal athletes.
“He was not afraid,” said Ski Allison ski corridor to the Rolling Stone Jesse Hyde Wedding writer in 2009.
“Many children say they want to go fast, but they really don’t want to go quickly. They retain something because there is a bit of fear of falling. Ryan had none of that.”
Early athletic career
Around 1991, the wedding family moved from Thunder Bay to the Pacific coast, in Coquitlam, British Columbia, less than an hour from Vancouver. Coquitlam is a city with lower crime rates than the average in Canada. However, the biggest crime problem in the city is “people who use or treat drugs” with a rate of 40.85 of 120, according to NumBoo.
There, the wedding quickly stood out in the snowboard, winning the first race in which he competed at age 12. Only three years later, it was part of the National Canadian Snowboard team at age 15 and began traveling regularly around the world for competitions. Rene Wedding paid all expenses for Ryan’s participation in the team, spending around $ 40,000, according to Rolling Stone.
According to the reports, the young Snowboarder “obsessed” by perfecting his snowboard technique and also used his father’s engineering skills to try modifications in his boots and snowboard boots to obtain an advantage.
The Olympic Games
After missing the 1998 Winter Olympic Games, Wedding qualified for its first and unique Olympic Games in 2002 in Salt Lake City.
But the natural talent of the wedding, courage and obsession were not enough to take it to the podium.
In its only event, the male parallel giant Slalom, the wedding ended at place 24. Philipp Schoch of Switzerland won the gold, Richard Rikardsson from Sweden won Silver and Chris Klug from the United States took bronze.
Ryan’s wedding in Canada at the 2002 Olympic Games. (Tony Marshall/Empics through Getty Images)
With a bronze medal, Klug launched its own dedicated base “to promote the donation of organs and tissues that save lives and improving the quality of life of the headdresses by donation.”
Without a medal in hand, the wedding followed a very different path after Salt Lake City.
Early criminal activity
After the Olympic Games, the wedding enrolled at Simon University and Frasier in Vancouver.
In the early 2000s, Vancouver was ascending as one of the illegal marijuana capitals in the world. The drug was not legalized, but it was also a low priority for the application of the law, which resulted in an influx of “gray area” cannabis stores, official businesses that sold marijuana illegally under the appearance of another purpose.
According to reports, drug-related gang activity increased in the city since 2002-09. The gangs known as the “Red Scorpions”, the “Independent Soldiers” and the “Wolfpack Alliance” arose, according to multiple reports, and treat marijuana was a suspicion of the great activity and the form of income for gangs.
The wedding was first linked with criminal activities in 2006. He and another competitive snowboarder were appointed in a search warrant for a house in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, which was investigated for growing large amounts of marijuana, according to Vancouver Sun.
Police confiscated 6,800 marijuana plants from that house, but no one was accused.
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First prison sentence and mysterious marriage
The wedding was first arrested in 2009 in the United States after traveling with two friends from Vancouver to California to supposedly buy 24 kilograms of Colombian cocaine.
FBI’s determined wedding was working for a drug trafficker in Vancouver at that time.
That year, the city had become a gang war with multiple shootings related to gang violence, according to multiple reports. The alleged gangs involved included independent soldiers, the Sanghera Crime Family family, the Crime Buttar family, the United Nations gang, Vancouver chapters of the Hells Angels, Vancouver Sun reported.
On the computer of his home in Abbotsford, British Columbia, May 16, 2009, Mathea Angelica Sturm, 17, sob in the memories of two classmates who were shot dead. (Getty images)
That year, the police responded to reports of more than 30 shootings.
“Let’s not fool ourselves. There is a gang war and it’s brutal,” said Jim Chu, Vancouver police manager at that time, CBC.
When the wedding was tested, he said it was a volunteer for several cancer agencies, he was making real estate investments and was training for the 2010 Olympic Games. But the Canadian Snowboard Federation said he had not competed in years, according to Vancouver Sun.
The wedding served a four -year prison sentence after accepting more than $ 121,000 seized during an airport sting and accepting an appeal of their sentence.
Just over a year after his prayer, the wedding had its own wedding behind bars. According to CBC, she married a businesswoman born in Iran of British Columbia at the Reeves County Detention Center in western Texas.
The woman, who has not been appointed, said the wedding insisted that she was convicted because she was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“I don’t want to partner with these people,” he said, according to CBC.
Since then, the woman has been appointed in multiple investigations for money laundering and kidnapping. Although he has denied any participation in criminal activity, his name has emerged in an alleged international money laundering scheme linked to Mexican drug cartels.
Wedding and women are no longer together. She says they have not spoken in recent years and that since then she has married, according to CBC.
Become a capo
If it was not long after the wedding was released from prison before the authorities did it again.
In 2015, he was accused of new drug crimes in Nueva Scotia. That time, the police never caught him. He has been fleeing as a fugitive since then.
American researchers believe that the wedding has been protected by the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico and resumed traffic shortly after being released from prison. Federal authorities first issued an arrest warrant for the wedding in September 2024, but has not yet been arrested.
It is believed that the wedding also passes through the alias “the boss”, “giant”, “public enemy”, “James Conrad King” and “Jesse King” and it is estimated that it transported more than $ 1 billion in cocaine.
The wedding and the alleged accomplice Andrew Clark, who was arrested in October and extradited last week, are accused of coordinating the murder of an ontarium family “in retaliation for a shipment of stolen drugs that passed through southern California.”
The FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police claim that Bode and Clark coordinated a double homicide of November 2023 in Ontario that involves an innocent couple in an erroneous identity murder, according to the FBI.
Wedding and Clark are also accused of coordinating the murder of another person in May for a drug debt.
The FBI Los Angeles head, Akil Davis, said at a press conference on Thursday that the supposed wedding trafficking ring “routinely sent hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and southern California, to Canada and other places in the United States, and by orchestrating multiple murders and an attempted murder at the bottom of these drugs.
“The alleged murders of its competitors make the wedding a very dangerous man, and his addition to the list of ten more wanted fugitives, along with an important offer of rewards by the State Department, will make the public our partner so that we can reach it before putting someone else in danger,” Davis added.
Researchers believe that the wedding is living in Mexico, but they have not ruled out that it is in the United States, Canada, Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica or elsewhere.
The murder and the criminal company against the wedding have a minimal penalty of mandatory life in a federal prison.
