By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MIKE BALSAMO, Related Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ryan Marriage ceremony, a former Olympic snowboarder for Canada who was among the many FBI’s prime fugitives and faces fees associated to multinational drug trafficking and the killing of a federal witness, has been arrested, two folks conversant in the matter informed The Related Press on Friday.
Marriage ceremony, 44, is accused of operating a drug trafficking operation, and officers say he orchestrated a number of killings to additional the drug crimes. He was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wished Fugitives listing, and authorities had provided a $15 million reward for data resulting in his arrest and conviction.
Marriage ceremony’s arrest was confirmed by two folks conversant in the matter who weren’t approved to debate particulars of the investigation and spoke to the AP on situation of anonymity.
The arrest is anticipated to be introduced later Friday morning at a information convention with FBI Director Kash Patel in California. Marriage ceremony was apprehended in Mexico, one official stated.
The FBI launched a brand new picture of Marriage ceremony final month and stated it was believed to have been taken over the summer time in Mexico.
Marriage ceremony competed for his dwelling nation, Canada, within the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake Metropolis.
He was charged in 2024 with operating a drug ring that used semitrucks to maneuver cocaine between Colombia, Mexico, Southern California and Canada. Authorities stated his aliases included “El Jefe,” “Public Enemy” and “James Conrad Kin.”
In November, U.S. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi introduced that Marriage ceremony had additionally been indicted on fees of orchestrating the killing of a witness in Colombia to assist him keep away from extradition to the U.S.
Authorities stated Marriage ceremony and co-conspirators used a Canadian web site referred to as “The Soiled Information” to put up {a photograph} of the witness so he could possibly be recognized and killed. The witness was then adopted to a restaurant in Medellín in January and shot within the head.
Marriage ceremony faces separate drug trafficking fees in Canada that date again to 2015, based on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Marriage ceremony was beforehand convicted within the U.S. of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and was sentenced to jail in 2010, federal data present.
