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Former Olympic snowboarder and FBI fugitive Ryan Wedding arrested

<i>Adam Pretty/Getty Images/File via CNN Newsource</i><br/>This February 2002 photo shows Ryan Wedding of Canada competing in the men's parallel giant slalom snowboarding event during the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.
<i>Adam Pretty/Getty Images/File via CNN Newsource</i><br/>This February 2002 photo shows Ryan Wedding of Canada competing in the men's parallel giant slalom snowboarding event during the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.
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By Josh Campbell, CNN

(CNN) — Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder, Ryan Wedding, has been arrested, a law enforcement source familiar with the capture tells CNN.

Wedding was one of FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” fugitives with a $15 million reward after being indicted for allegedly running a criminal enterprise, cocaine trafficking and murder in an operation stretching across the US, Canada, Mexico and Colombia.

Attorney General Pam Bondi previously said Wedding’s operation was responsible for more than $1 billion a year in illegal drug proceeds. Officials had believed Wedding to be somewhere in Mexico under the protection of the Sinaloa cartel.

Competing for Team Canada, Wedding finished as the 24th-best parallel giant slalom snowboarder in the world at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Wedding’s arrest was first reported by NBC.

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