Fugitive ex-Olympian Ryan Wedding's drug ring still active in Canada, RCMP says

Thomas Daigle · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 06, 2025 3:37 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

The murderous drug-trafficking web allegedly tally by erstwhile Team Canada Olympian Ryan Wedding remains progressive successful Canada contempt efforts to dismantle the cartel-linked group, the RCMP has confirmed to CBC News.

Wedding was added this twelvemonth to the FBI's database of 10 most-wanted fugitives. He's accused of moving a $1-billion US transgression endeavor that routinely shipped tonnes of fentanyl and cocaine passim North America, and that has been linked to astatine slightest 4 killings successful Ontario.

"There surely are elements of his web that stay successful place," RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather said Friday, during an unrelated quality league astatine the Mounties' Ontario office successful London.

Leather, the RCMP's serviceman successful complaint of transgression operations for the province, said Wedding's alleged drug-trafficking enactment remains a people of "multiple ongoing investigations," involving the national constabulary agency, Toronto constabulary and Ontario Provincial Police.

The Thunder Bay, Ont.-born Wedding competed for Canada arsenic a snowboarder astatine the 2002 Olympic Games. Now 43, he's been connected the tally from the RCMP since 2015 erstwhile helium faced charges related to a cocaine-importing conspiracy.

Wedding was besides indicted successful California past fall, on with 15 alleged accomplices including 9 chap Canadians. He faces 8 felony charges, including drug-trafficking offences and execution successful transportation with a continuing transgression endeavor that utilized stash houses to store drugs successful the Los Angeles area.

"The alleged murders of his competitors marque Wedding a precise unsafe man," Akil Davis, the adjunct manager of the FBI's L.A. tract bureau said successful March.

The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $10-million US for accusation starring to his arrest.

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U.S. prosecutors person said Wedding is suspected of surviving successful Mexico, nether the extortion of the Sinaloa cartel, erstwhile headed by notorious cause lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. Authorities person besides suggested helium could beryllium hiding retired successful Canada, the U.S., Colombia, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica, oregon elsewhere.

U.S. prosecutors person said Wedding continues to postulation drugs portion successful hiding. 

Liam Price, the RCMP's manager wide of planetary peculiar services, said earlier this twelvemonth Wedding "continues to airs 1 of the largest organized transgression threats to Canada, adjacent arsenic a fugitive."

Four of Wedding's co-defendants, who were arrested successful Toronto past October, stay successful custody successful a section jailhouse and look extradition to the U.S.

His alleged right-hand man, chap Canadian Andrew Clark, was arrested successful Mexico past autumn and transferred to U.S. custody successful February.

The U.S. indictment unsealed past October lists 18 aliases for Wedding, including James Conrad King, Jesse King, El Jefe ("The Boss"), Public Enemy, Giant and Grande.