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Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned alleged cocaine kingpin in US custody

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Ryan Wedding in an undated photo. Mexico’s security minister said Wedding ‘surrendered voluntarily’. Photograph: FBI

Ryan Wedding, the Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin, has been arrested after turning himself in at the US embassy in Mexico, law enforcement officials announced on Friday.

Wedding, 44, had been sought by the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) for his role in overseeing what the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, called the “one of the most prolific and violent drug-trafficking organizations” in the world.

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