A snowboarder who represented Canada at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, Ryan Wedding, is actively wanted for a double murder in Ontario.
This was revealed by the United States Department of Justice in a press release on Thursday.
Another Canadian, a certain Andrew Clark, is also involved in this affair. The latter has been in police custody since October 8.
The two men allegedly orchestrated the murders of two members of their family in Caledon on November 20, 2023.
The crimes were allegedly committed “in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment that passed through Southern California.”
Wedding and Clark reside in Mexico and are allegedly part of a group allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking operation.
U.S. authorities say the defendants were shipping hundreds of kilos of cocaine from Colombia to Canada and the United States. A total of 16 people are accused in this trafficking case.
The two men also allegedly ordered the murder of another victim on May 18, 2024, over a drug debt, but the indictment does not specify where this crime took place.
Wedding, 43, competed in the parallel giant slalom event in Salt Lake City and placed 24th. In 2015, the Thunder Bay native was the subject of an arrest warrant issued by Nova Scotia authorities in connection with the importation of cocaine.
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