politics
January 23, 2026
Ryan Wedding arrested after manhunt for ex-Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin, FBI says
Updated on: January 23, 2026 / 11:03 AM EST / CBS News
TL;DR
- Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder, has been arrested in Mexico.
- Wedding is accused of being a drug kingpin and orchestrating multiple murders.
- He was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
- Wedding is believed to have run a drug trafficking network moving cocaine from Colombia through Mexico to the U.S. and Canada.
- He is accused of placing a bounty on a federal witness.
- Wedding and his second-in-command, Andrew Clark, are accused of ordering the killings of a Canadian family in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment.
- They are also accused of directing a killing over a drug debt.
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