FBI arrests ex-Olympian drug ‘kingpin’ who allegedly used crypto to move proceeds
U.S. authorities arrested former Canadian snowboarding star Ryan Wedding on Friday, taking down a suspected drug kingpin they said used cryptocurrency networks to move and launder proceeds from his criminal enterprises.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi called Wedding a “onetime Olympian snowboarder-turned alleged violent cocaine kingpin,” in a statement, and she said he’s been flown to the U.S. to face charges. Wedding had been on the list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s top-10ten wanted fugitives for accusations of cocaine trafficking and murder, and FBI Director Kash Patel said in a posting on social media site X that he’d been captured in Mexico.
Wedding, who the FBI said had been associated with the Sinaloa Cartel, was…
