Pam Bondi Details Ryan Wedding's Transnational Drug Trafficking Operation

Ryan Wedding: Former Olympian Turned Drug Kingpin

• 🏅 Ryan Wedding, a former Olympian from Canada, is revealed to be the leader of a major transnational criminal enterprise.
• 🎯 He is currently on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list and controls one of the world's most prolific and violent drug trafficking organizations.
• 🇨🇦 Wedding is identified as the largest distributor of cocaine in Canada, collaborating with the Sinaloa cartel.

Scale of Operations and Seizures

• 📈 Wedding's organization is responsible for importing approximately 60 metric tons of cocaine annually into Los Angeles.
• ⚖️ In the course of the investigation, over 35 individuals have been indicted, with seizures including over 2,000 kilos of drugs, numerous weapons, approximately $3.2 million in cryptocurrency, and over $13 million in physical assets.
• 💰 The Treasury Department's foreign asset control is seizing assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars belonging to approximately 19 targets associated with Wedding's enterprise.

Witness Intimidation and Murder

• ⚠️ Wedding is accused of murdering a federal witness who was set to testify against him.
• 💻 He allegedly used a Canadian website, 'The Dirty News,' to post the witness's and his wife's photographs, leading to the witness being gunned down.
• ⚖️ A new indictment charges Wedding with additional counts of witness tampering and intimidation, murder, money laundering, and drug trafficking.

Law Enforcement Efforts and International Cooperation

• 🤝 The Justice Department is working closely with partners at the State Department and the Department of Treasury, as well as Canadian and Colombian law enforcement.
• 💰 The reward for information leading to Wedding's arrest has been raised by the State Department to $15 million.
• 🗣️ Pam Bondi emphasizes that drugs are harming communities and vows to use every tool available to apprehend those involved, stating, "We are coming for you."