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A former Olympic snowboarder has been charged with running a drug smuggling operation that allegedly shipped huge amounts of narcotics across borders and killed four people, the FBI said Thursday. A $50,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of Ryan James Wedding, 43, who represented Canada in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002. Wedding is now considered an armed and dangerous fugitive, according to the FBI.
Several of the gang have been arrested and are expected to make their first court appearances in the next week in Los Angeles, Michigan and Miami. Prosecutors allege that the gang shipped as much as 827 pounds of of cocaine in a single month, moving it from Mexico to southern California, and then to Ontario, Canada.
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