A former Olympic snowboarder has been arrested on suspicion of running a major international drug trafficking operation.
Canadian national Ryan Wedding, 44, has been charged with overseeing the operations of a criminal enterprise and enriching himself with its laundered drug proceeds, sources told NBC News.
Officials have previously accused Wedding—who competed in the giant slalom snowboarding event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah—of smuggling approximately 60 metric tons of cocaine per year between Mexico and Los Angeles via semitrucks. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wedding’s cocaine operation generated more than $1 billion a year in illegal drug proceeds.
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