Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Here is the real inside story of astonishing allegations that Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding became a transnational drug lord, running a billion-dollar empire protected by the notorious Sinaloa Cartel and enforced by reckless contract killers. Let me tell you about it.
The Mob Reporter here with exclusive details and never-before-seen photos that take you behind the scenes of a major FBI operation that targets an alleged deadly narco with a most unorthodox background — a former snowboarder with Team Canada at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002, who is now accused of cutting a different sort of powder; and rolling in a different kind of snow.
Ryan Wedding was named a most-wanted fugitive by the FBI on Oct. 17, 2024, in Los Angeles with a $50,000 bounty on his head, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Sixteen people were indicted and most of them arrested, including Wedding's alleged right-hand man, Andrew Clark, a Canadian arrested in Mexico. There were arrests in Canada, Miami, Los Angeles, Colombia, and Mexico. Also arrested was Nahim Jorge Bonilla, a music producer and restaurant owner who was nabbed at his Miami-area mansion, a palatial home once owned by DJ Khaled.
Ryan Wedding’s past Olympic event inspired the FBI’s codename for their probe. They called it Operation Giant Slalom.
Please remember that an indictment contains allegations only and it has not yet been tested in court. None of the accused have had an opportunity to defend themselves in court.
CREDITS:
Music is "It's Always Too Late to Start Over" by Chris Zabriskie.
FBI raid newscast to show local reaction to the event is from CBS News Miami; the Niagara hit footage is from CHCH TV; and the triple shooting footage from Postmedia. Winter games footage to show what the world saw of Wedding’s event is from CBC.
Snowboarding video by alex, Monterrey video by Alex García, Los Angeles freeway video by RDNE Stock project, Vancouver video by Dmitry Varennikov, San Diego street by Adam Fackelman, Group silhouette photo by Afta Putta Gunawan, Guadalajara video by Joel Rangel, Truck yard video by Alex Kad, Los Angeles on horizon video by Henrique, Trucks at night video by Get Lost Mike, Dollar video by cottonbro studio, Greenscreen phone photos by Towfiqu barbhuiya and Mger, Miami palms video by TripAway 2Day, all from Pexels.
Mansion real estate photos from ONE Sotheby’s International Realty. Thunder Bay snow photos by Ben Babcock, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83667167
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Here is the real inside story of astonishing allegations that Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding became a transnational drug lord, running a billion-dollar empire protected by the notorious Sinaloa Cartel and enforced by reckless contract killers. Let me tell you about it.
The Mob Reporter here with exclusive details and never-before-seen photos that take you behind the scenes of a major FBI operation that targets an alleged deadly narco with a most unorthodox background — a former snowboarder with Team Canada at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002, who is now accused of cutting a different sort of powder; and rolling in a different kind of snow.
Ryan Wedding was named a most-wanted fugitive by the FBI on Oct. 17, 2024, in Los Angeles with a $50,000 bounty on his head, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Sixteen people were indicted and most of them arrested, including Wedding's alleged right-hand man, Andrew Clark, a Canadian arrested in Mexico. There were arrests in Canada, Miami, Los Angeles, Colombia, and Mexico. Also arrested was Nahim Jorge Bonilla, a music producer and restaurant owner who was nabbed at his Miami-area mansion, a palatial home once owned by DJ Khaled.
Ryan Wedding’s past Olympic event inspired the FBI’s codename for their probe. They called it Operation Giant Slalom.
Please remember that an indictment contains allegations only and it has not yet been tested in court. None of the accused have had an opportunity to defend themselves in court.
CREDITS:
Music is "It's Always Too Late to Start Over" by Chris Zabriskie.
FBI raid newscast to show local reaction to the event is from CBS News Miami; the Niagara hit footage is from CHCH TV; and the triple shooting footage from Postmedia. Winter games footage to show what the world saw of Wedding’s event is from CBC.
Snowboarding video by alex, Monterrey video by Alex García, Los Angeles freeway video by RDNE Stock project, Vancouver video by Dmitry Varennikov, San Diego street by Adam Fackelman, Group silhouette photo by Afta Putta Gunawan, Guadalajara video by Joel Rangel, Truck yard video by Alex Kad, Los Angeles on horizon video by Henrique, Trucks at night video by Get Lost Mike, Dollar video by cottonbro studio, Greenscreen phone photos by Towfiqu barbhuiya and Mger, Miami palms video by TripAway 2Day, all from Pexels.
Mansion real estate photos from ONE Sotheby’s International Realty. Thunder Bay snow photos by Ben Babcock, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83667167
~ The Mob Reporter is a professional journalist bringing you real-life mob, police and true crime news, investigative journalism and educational videos.
~ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/user/themobreporter?sub_confirmation=1
~ Please subscribe to my other channels:
• Crime Watch: youtube.com/CrimeWatchWorld
• Crime in Italy: youtube.com/CrimeInItaly
~ To read my written journalism: nationalpost.com/author/ahumphreys
Please like, share, comment and subscribe.
Thanks for watching!
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Please watch: "Genius jewel heist wrecked by sloppy mistakes": youtu.be/KkEk0k0d_7Y
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