Ryan Wedding

At the age of 15 Ryan Wedding became a member of the the Canadian National Freestyle Ski Team and won a silver medal in the 2001 Junior World Championships. He finished in the top 40 of the World Cup parallel slalom standing in 2022 and qualified for the Winter Olympic Games where he finished 24th. After this, he gave up competitive snowboarding.

Criminal conduct: In 2006 Ryan Wedding was named in a search warrant on a Maple Ridge, British Columbia that was investigated for growing large quantities of marijuana but he was never charged. However, in May 2010 he was convicted of attempting to buy cocaine from a US government agent in 2008, and was sentenced to four years in prison.

In 2024 Wedding was accused of operating a drug trafficking ring and was wanted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with a large reward offered for his capture. Per insidethegames.com “Along with 15 other defendants, Wedding, who was last seen living in Mexico, is charged with running a drug trafficking organization that shipped hundreds of pounds of cocaine from Colombia through Mexico and southern California to Canada and other US locations. They allegedly moved over 60 tons of cocaine a year and four of them remain fugitives, according to Martin Estrada, U.S. attorney in Los Angeles. ‘He chose to become a major drug trafficker, and he chose to become a killer,’ Estrada told reporters.” In late February 2025, Wedding was named to the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List with a $10 million reward, later increased to $15 million, for information leading to the arrest of the former Olympian.

In November 2025, the United States’ Department of Justice noted, “To eliminate threats and advance his enterprise’s interests, Wedding issued orders to murder various individuals, including an order to kill the victim, a witness in a 2024 federal narcotics case against Wedding, which resulted in the victim’s death. Wedding placed a bounty on the victim and enlisted the services of others to locate and kill the victim.”