THE Los Angeles FBI’s office has released photos of a large number of motorcycles seized recently by Mexican authorities that they say are believed to be owned by FBI’s Top Ten Fugitive Ryan James Wedding, a Canadian.
The motorcycles have an estimated value of approximately $40 million US.
“This successful seizure is a result of collaborative efforts among Mexican authorities, the FBI, RCMP and LAPD Headquarters,” the FBI said in a post on X.
Wedding is a snowboarder who represented Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. After his snowboarding career, Wedding turned to a life of crime as a transnational narcotics trafficker.
Earlier this month, the American authorities released new photos of Wedding. The FBI said on its X account that the photo they released is believed to have been taken in Mexico during the summer of 2025. Also, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico in a video posted on its Facebook Page and X account showed another newly obtained photo of Wedding.
screenshot / U.S. Embassy in Mexico’s Facebook / X
In a November 19 press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., officials from the U.S. and Canada described Wedding as a narco-trafficker on par with notorious drug lords like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Pablo Escobar. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wedding’s operation was responsible for more than $1 billion a year in illegal drug proceeds.
The FBI said Wedding is wanted for allegedly running and participating in a transnational drug trafficking operation that routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada, and other locations in the United States. Additionally, it is alleged that Wedding was involved in orchestrating multiple murders in furtherance of these drug crimes.
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