Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder-turned-FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitive, was arrested in Mexico late Thursday, according to federal officials.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Friday that the FBI had “apprehended yet another member of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted List: Ryan Wedding, the onetime Olympian snowboarder-turned-alleged violent cocaine kingpin.”
FBI Director Kash Patel also tweeted about the arrest, saying the 44-year-old Canadian athlete is being transported to the U.S. “to face justice.”
“As of this morning, the DOJ/FBI officially apprehended our SIXTH Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitive within the last year,” Patel said. “Wedding is believed to have been hiding in Mexico for over a decade — and has been wanted on charges for cocaine trafficking and murder since 2024.”
Wedding, who competed for Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics, was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list in March 2025.
“As alleged in the superseding indictment, defendant Ryan Wedding — a former Olympian — led a transnational criminal organization that murdered innocent people and put thousands of kilograms of narcotics on our streets,” Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph T. McNally said at the time.
The United States had offered a $10 million reward — which was later increased to $15 million — for information leading to Wedding’s arrest and/or conviction.
In November, Wedding was indicted on murder, drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
He and alleged accomplice Andrew Clark have been accused of multiple offenses in connection to running one of the largest cocaine distributors in Canada in collaboration with the Mexican-based Sinaloa cartel. Investigators have connected Wedding and Clark to numerous murders.
The pair would face a minimum of life in federal prison if convicted on the top charge of running a criminal enterprise, as well as anywhere from 10 to 15 years for drug trafficking and at least 20 years for murder and attempted murder charges, according to the FBI.
