Ex-Olympian Ryan Wedding added to FBI most wanted with $10m reward for ‘ordering murders’ and running ‘drug empire’

A FORMER Olympian has been added to the FBI’s 10 most wanted list over allegations that he ran a drug empire and orchestrated murders. 

Ryan Wedding, who starred at the 2002 Winter Olympics, has been charged with a string of murder and drug crimes.

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The 43-year-old has been accused of running a drugs trafficking network that sent hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia into Canada and other locations within the US, as per the Department of Justice.

The drugs were shipped through Mexico and southern California. 

“Wedding went from shredding powder on the slopes at the Olympics to distributing powder cocaine on the streets of U.S. cities and in his native Canada,” Akil Davis, the Assistant Director of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office said.

He’s accused of shipping five metric tons of fentanyl per month, as reported by CBC.

FBI agents have branded Wedding as a “very dangerous man.”

And, cops have issued a $10 million reward.

Police do not know where Wedding is.

Cops have revealed it’s possible he could be in the US, Canada, Colombia, or Costa Rica.

They suggested that he might not be in any of the locations and could be elsewhere.

Canadian police first launched a manhunt for Wedding’s arrest in 2015.