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FBI offers $10m reward for ex-Olympic snowboarder turned drug kingpin

person wearing red snowboards past red Olympic flag
Ryan Wedding competes in the qualifying round of the men's parallel giant slalom snowboarding event in Park City, Utah, in 2002. Photograph: Adam Pretty/Getty Images

Authorities in the United States have offered a $10m reward for information that leads to the arrest of a Canadian former Olympic snowboarder-turned-international drug kingpin.

Police in Los Angeles said on Thursday that Ryan Wedding – also known as “El Jefe”, “Giant” and “Public Enemy” – is wanted for his role in a billion-dollar cross-border drug trafficking operation and for several homicides linked to his drug sprawling network.

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