Canadian former Olympic snowboarder wanted in Ontario double homicide: DOJ
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A Canadian former Olympic snowboarder is wanted and another suspect is in custody in connection with a double homicide in Ontario last year, United States law enforcement say.
A Canadian former Olympic snowboarder is wanted and another suspect is in custody in connection with a double homicide in Ontario last year, United States law enforcement say.
The Department of Justice said Thursday that Ryan James Wedding, who competed for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, and Andrew Clark, allegedly directed the Nov. 20, 2023 murders of two family members in Caledon, "in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment that passed through Southern California."
The Canadians, who reside in Mexico, are two of 16 defendants identified in a superseding indictment unsealed today, which alleges that the group was running what officials described as a transnational drug trafficking operation. Officials say the defendants “routinely” shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, into Canada and the U.S.
Clark was arrested on Oct. 8 by Mexican law enforcement, a news release states, however Wedding is still outstanding.
The DOJ said in addition to Wedding and Clark ordering the double homicide in Caledon, which also left one other family member seriously injured, they directed the murder of another victim on May 18, 2024 over a drug debt, but authorities didn’t say where that homicide took place. Clark and another suspect, identified as 23-year-old Canadian Malik Damion Cunningham, are also charged in a murder on April 1, 2024 in Mississauga.
Wedding, whose aliases include “El Jefe,” “Giant,” and “Public Enemy,” according to the Federal Bureau of investigation, is the lead defendant in the indictment and is wanted on eight charges, including three counts of murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise.
Clark, who is known by the alias “The Dictator," is facing the same charges, as well as an additional count of murder.
