Canadian ex-Olympian pleads not guilty to 17 felonies including drug trafficking
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Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding pleaded not guilty to 17 felony charges, including drug trafficking, conspiracy to murder, and money laundering, in a California court on Monday. Wedding is accused of leading a large-scale cocaine trafficking operation from South America to the US and Canada after his athletic career. He is also accused of ordering several murders in Canada and Colombia related to his drug enterprise. Wedding, wanted by the FBI and RCMP, was recently apprehended in Mexico and extradited to the US. Authorities allege Wedding's operation worked with the Sinaloa cartel and generated over $1 billion annually, making him a major narcotics trafficker. He remains jailed without bond.
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