FBI, Olympic and Wedding
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Alejandro Castillo, accused of murdering coworker "Sandy" Ly Le in 2016, transferred to Charlotte after arrest in Mexico following years-long manhunt.
FBI Director Kash Patel, during a press conference on the tarmac at Ontario International Airport, said the capture of Ryan Wedding, 44, resulted from a manhunt.
The FBI’s arrest of long-hunted drug kingpin and former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding marks the 6th top-ten most wanted fugitive captured by the agency under President Trump — capping a “historic” year at the agency,
Ryan Wedding is accused of having orchestrated an international drug ring that was responsible for shipping approximately 60 metric tons of cocaine to the US and Canada from Colombia.
In 2016, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Le, 23, was Castillo's former girlfriend. Authorities found her vehicle at a bus station in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 15, 2016, and found her body on August 17, 2016, in a wooded area in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, with a gunshot wound to her head, The Charlotte Observer reported at the time.
The FBI has arrested a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder from their 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list. Ryan Wedding is accused of being a drug kingpin who used Los Angeles as his primary point of distribution.
Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder, was arrested on Friday and is facing charges related to drug trafficking and the killing of a federal witnesses.
A man charged in the 2022 shooting death of a young mother in northwest Harris County is now one of the Houston FBI’s most wanted fugitives after authorities say he jumped bail and failed to appear in court.