Ryan Wedding is a Canadian Olympic snowboarder allegedly turned drug kingpin, but his crime career is over for now. Wedding turned himself in at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City and is now in the U.S. awaiting trial.
You may have wondered about the surname “Wedding”, I hadn’t heard it before. It actually derives from a place called “Wadding” in Yorkshire, England.
Ryan James Wadding was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, in 1981 and competed for Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics (Salt Lake City) as a snowboarder.
After that, Wedding became a drug trafficker and made quite a name for himself, winding up in Mexico in the Sinaloa Cartel.
Wedding ran an operation transporting cocaine from Colombia through Mexico to the U.S. and Canada. His operation would move it by truck from Mexico to Los Angeles.
By 2005, Wedding made it to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
CASE UPDATE: #FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Ryan Wedding has been arrested in Mexico and brought back to the United States.
Wedding was wanted for allegedly running and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation that routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of… pic.twitter.com/TpLlPaKnKl
— FBI (@FBI) January 23, 2026
