Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Marriage ceremony is accused of working an infinite and violent drug trafficking operation ? routinely supply an entire bunch of kilos of cocaine and ordering people to be killed inside the course of ? and now he’s wished by the FBI.

Martin Estrada, the U.S. Legal skilled for the Central District of California, said on Thursday Marriage ceremony and 15 others have been charged in a 16-count indictment.

43-year-old Marriage ceremony ? who used aliases like ?El Jefe,? ?Big,? and ?Public Enemy? ? and his accomplices are being accused of conspiring to ship huge parts of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico and through stash houses inside the LA area ? after which delivering it to couriers to be taken to Canada via semi-trucks.

To see their operation by, Marriage ceremony and an affiliate allegedly ordered violent crimes ? along with two murders of relations in Ontario, Canada in retaliation for an intercepted drug cargo that was passing by SoCal. Additionally they allegedly ordered one different murder over a drug debt.

As part of the investigation, officers seized a number of ton of blow, $255K in U.S. foreign exchange, $3.2 million in crypto, firearms and ammunition. The org. is accused of delivering 646 kilos of cocaine in March 2024 alone ? and tried to ship 827 kilos in April, nevertheless it was intercepted by investigators.

In full, officers say the defendants possessed wherever from $23.4-25.2 million worth of cocaine.

Marriage ceremony has been charged with eight felonies ? two counts of conspiracy to distribute managed substances, one rely of conspiracy to export cocaine, one rely of principal a unbroken felony enterprise, three counts of murder in reference to a unbroken felony enterprise, and drug crime, and one rely of attempt to commit murder in reference to a unbroken felony enterprise and drug crime.

?As alleged within the indictment, an Olympic athlete-turned-drug lord is now charged with main a transnational organized crime group that engaged in cocaine trafficking and homicide, together with of harmless civilians,? Estrada said.

DEA Particular Agent in Cost Matthew Allen moreover addressed the alleged drug empire ? saying, ?The Marriage ceremony Drug Trafficking Group and its unremitting, callous and greed-driven crimes has been working for a lot too lengthy, spanning a number of nations, from Colombia by Mexico, the U.S. and to Canada.?

?They?ve triggered an avalanche of violent crimes, together with brutal murders. Marriage ceremony, the Olympian snowboarder, went from navigating slopes to contouring a lifetime of incessant crimes.?

Marriage ceremony had run-ins with the regulation sooner than. In 2010, he was convicted of buying cocaine from a authorities agent. He was sentenced to 4 years in jail.

Marriage ceremony was dwelling in Mexico ? and is now thought-about a fugitive. He moreover faces separate drug trafficking costs in Canada from 2015.

For the drug costs alone, Marriage ceremony, if convicted, goes via a minimal of 10 years in jail.