FBI shares new Ryan Wedding photo as search for alleged drug lord continues
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The FBI has released a new photo of a Canadian Olympian-turned-alleged cocaine kingpin who the organization's director says is a 'modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar.'
The FBI has released a new photo of a Canadian Olympian-turned-alleged cocaine kingpin who the organization’s director says is a “modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar.”
Ryan Wedding, 44, is facing several murder and drug charges stemming from his reported drug empire that stretches across the Americas.
The FBI has said Wedding, who is reportedly living in Mexico under the protection of the Sinaloa Cartel, may be changing his appearance and hair colour to avoid capture.
The photo released by the FBI in Los Angeles Monday shows a shirtless Wedding lying on what appears to be a bed. Wedding is pictured with a short beard and short hair, along with a tattoo of a lion head on his left chest. The FBI said the photo is believed to have been taken this past summer in Mexico.
Two 2024 photos of Wedding released by the FBI show the six-foot-three Thunder Bay, Ont., native in public sporting a moustache and what appears to be a full-sleeve tattoo on his left arm; the other photo shows a bearded Wedding sitting at a table on his phone.
A previous, undated FBI handout photo of Wedding depicts him with long, curly hair and a beard.
Wedding, a snowboarder who was living in Coquitlam, B.C., when he suited up for his country at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list earlier this year.
A US$15-million bounty has been issued by the U.S. State Department for information that leads to his arrest or conviction.
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