Mexican authorities seize $40M in motorcycles from Olympic snowboarder turned fugitive, FBI says

FBI officials successful Los Angeles said $40 cardinal worthy of motorcycles believed to beryllium owned by erstwhile Canadian Olympic snowboarder and FBI fugitive Ryan Wedding were seized by Mexican authorities successful a fig of busts successful December. 

Officials revealed the seizures successful a station connected societal media connected Wednesday much than a period aft Wedding was deed with further charges and raised the reward for his seizure to $15 million. 

Ryan Wedding of Canada takes a signifier tally for the men's parallel elephantine slalom of the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic Games successful Park City connected Feb. 13, 2002.   (REUTERS/Jeff J Mitchell)

Wedding connected the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List. 

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"This month, Mexican authorities executed aggregate hunt warrants and seized a ample fig of motorcycles with an estimated worth of astir $40 cardinal USD that are believed to beryllium owned by FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Ryan James Wedding," the announcement read.

"Wedding is wanted for allegedly moving and participating successful a transnational cause trafficking cognition and for his alleged engagement successful orchestrating aggregate murders successful furtherance of cause crimes. The U.S. is offering a reward of up to $15 cardinal for accusation starring to his apprehension and/or conviction."

Officials revealed the seizures successful a station connected societal media Wednesday much than a period aft Wedding was deed with further charges and raised the reward for his seizure to $15 million. (FBI)

Wedding, 44, and 14 different alleged associates were accused of orchestrating the January 2025 execution of a witnesser who was changeable and killed astatine a edifice successful Colombia. Officials said Wedding placed a bounty connected the victim’s caput reasoning their decease would pb to the dismissal of charges against him and the drug-trafficking ringing helium is allegedly the caput of.

The FBI has described Wedding arsenic an "extremely convulsive transgression believed to beryllium liable for the execution of galore radical abroad."

FUGITIVE OLYMPIC SNOWBOARDER FACES NEW ACCUSATIONS AS FEDS RAISE REWARD FOR HIS CAPTURE TO $15M

"You bash not get to beryllium a cause kingpin and evade the law," FBI Director Kash Patel said during a quality league past month. "Make nary mistake astir it. Ryan Wedding is simply a modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar. He’s a modern-day iteration of ‘El Chapo’ Guzman. This Justice Department and this FBI volition enactment with our Canadian counterparts and authorities officials crossed the satellite to bring him to justice."

Wedding is allegedly liable for trafficking tons of cocaine done Colombia and Mexico to beryllium distributed successful the U.S. and Canada and uses cryptocurrency to fell his wealth. The FBI has said that Wedding has ordered dozens of murders successful North America and Latin America.

Officials revealed the seizures successful a station connected societal media Wednesday much than a period aft Wedding was deed with further charges and raised the reward for his seizure to $15 million. (FBI)

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He participated successful the 2002 Olympics successful Salt Lake City aft missing retired connected the 1998 Games. It was the lone Olympics helium competed in.

Fox News Digital’s Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report. 

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