The FBI is tightening its grip on Ryan Wedding. The former Canadian Olympian, accused of masterminding a multibillion-dollar drug operation and ordering at least four murders in Ontario, has been placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. U.S. authorities are now offering a record $10 million reward for information leading to his capture.
Investigators believe Wedding is hiding in Mexico under the protection of the Sinaloa cartel. On Thursday, U.S. officials released a newly obtained photograph of him, taken in 2024. Authorities did not disclose who provided the image or where it was taken, but it confirms that the fugitive remains at large.
Wedding was first identified as a key suspect last October alongside 15 accomplices—nine of them Canadian—during an investigation that dismantled a drug smuggling network responsible for moving hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia to Canada via Mexico and Southern California.
Most of those arrested are already in custody in the U.S. and Canada, but Wedding, believed to be the network’s top leader, remains on the run. Initially, authorities had placed a $50,000 bounty on him. Now, Los Angeles Police Department investigative division chief Alan Hamilton says the increased reward sends a clear message: “There is no safe haven for Wedding. We will find him, dismantle his network, and bring him to justice.”
Beyond drug trafficking, Wedding and his alleged right-hand man, Canadian national Andrew Clark, are accused of orchestrating four homicides in Ontario. Among the victims were Jagtar Singh Sidhu, 57, and his wife, Harbhajan Kaur Sidhu, 55, who were mistakenly killed in Caledon in November 2023. Their daughter, Kaur Sidhu, 28, survived the attack.
Investigators also suspect Wedding and Clark were behind the May 2024 execution of Mohammed Zafar in Brampton, a killing allegedly linked to a drug-related dispute. Clark is further accused of involvement in the April 2024 murder of 29-year-old Randy Fader near Niagara Falls, carried out alongside accomplice Malik Damion Cunningham.
Clark was arrested in Mexico and extradited to the U.S. last month. Wedding, however, remains at large. But with the FBI closing in and a multimillion-dollar bounty on his head, the noose is tightening.
