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The story of an Olympic snowboarder who then ventured into a 20 year career in trafficking first marijuana, then dozens of tons of cocaine across two borders, ended at the US Embassy in Mexico City last night.
FBI's most wanted trafficker, Ryan James Wedding surrendered himself at the Embassy. He had been wanted for trafficking and ordering multiple murders including that of his longtime partner who became an FBI informant.
Update: On Monday January 26, 2026, Wedding pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and trafficking at a Santa Ana, CA courtroom. His lawyer Anthony Colombo, who has represented several cartel figures in the past, reported to the media that his client had in fact not surrendered, contradicting Mexican and US official statements.
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Following his trip to Mexico City to meet with Mexican officials, FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest of Canadian trafficker Ryan James Wedding. He was officially arrested by an FBI HRT team at the US Embassy after turning himself in. Wedding has already been flown out of the country to Los Angeles as part of a prearranged deal.
No word yet if a lawyer helped negotiate his surrender as his previous Toronto based attorney was also arrested as part of the investigation.
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| An AI modified image of Jeffrey Epstein was posted. |
In the weeks leading to his surrender, a 6 year old Instagram account was updated and renamed @bossryanw. The account posted several AI generated images, including several face swaps on Jeffrey Epstein photos. The account quickly gained over 70,000 followers and is believed to have been a trolling account not connected to Wedding.
Sources FBI, Borderland Beat
Another one bites the dust. Time to snitch and cut a deal.
ReplyDeleteAll this captured nonsense. Law enforcement didn't do shit, he turned himself in. The real question is this: just how fucking bad have these cartel wars gotten that Wedding willingly ran for the American Embassy versus, and at bare minimum using his millions to get some plastic surgery so he could at bare minimum try to disappear in South America or some other non-extraditable country? Hard to believe how many just gave up with the money/crypto easily more than enough for a thousand comfortable lifetimes living simply. Max in Colorado almost makes being tortured to death the easier road.
DeleteHe def made a deal a while ago, with el panu and those blows to IAG. It would make sense that he was talking . But who knows
DeleteHe was def talking and had an agreement with FBI earlier. IAG taking some big hits last month ain’t no coincidence
DeleteWhat’s IAG bro?
Delete2:57 Frankenstein talk for ivan archibaldo g.
Delete12:52 cómo chingaos desaparece un güey de 7 pies de alto en sudamerica donde todos los guatemaltecos miden 5 pies, 5'?
DeleteSolo que le mochen las patas
When mexico wants to they will turn in any narco
DeleteAt 3:14 jajajajajaja. Guatemala esta en Sudamerica
DeleteMexico tambien entonce es fronteriso con Guatemala
Gente tan 🖊 deja
Iag is Ivan archivaldo Guzman
Delete8:55 exactly, México can be at the level of the u.s if it wants to but only act when pressure by the U.S otherwise they don’t give a shit about nothing only making Feria by being corrupt
Delete11:15 seràs pendejo vali!!!
DeleteSerás la primera changuita mexicana que los rusos manden a la luna a buscar el burro que mandaron amarte.
11:15 te dolio pinche indio guatemanteco feo
Delete2:30 Mexico is one third the size of the US, (has the same population if you count the mexicans living in America Mexicana) and three times the area of the US counting the America Mexicana, but Mexico has less than 1% the foreign debt conpared to the US...even after the us stole the Chapo's billions of dollars, and caro quintero, miguel angel felix gallardo, don neto, pablo escobar, amado carrillo juentes, arturo beltran... they promised they would get paid later, then sent la migra after them, and the US still owe their ass to the chineses, but the US gets tariff free "ties".LOL.
Delete11:15 “sos de guacacamala vos” that’s how you cerotes talk que no 😁 enano watemala
Delete11:15 fuck out of here central americunt llorona
Delete4:29 pinches guacamayas de mamamela, sigan ladrando perras chaparras acomplejadas.
DeletePerras se escaparon de la Putagonia, pinchis mujes.
Delete11:15 AM Mexico es norte america y guatemala es centro america imbecil
Delete7:15 thats right, mexico, usa, and canada are north america hence NAFTA
Delete7:15 y el fundillo lo trais atrás,
Deletebien loco, que te metistes
7:15 los centroamericanos Siempre quieren agrupar a Mexico con centroamericano para hacer que estamos al mismo nivel lol
DeleteAhora ve y dile a un ICE agent lo superior que eres
Delete7:15 Llamas, i mean guatermalanos are 5 feet tall all over the world, even on the moon, learn to read inorantes.
DeleteVery smart White man.
ReplyDeleteMake some kind of deal.
Do a 10 year bid.
And come out to enjoy and spend the hundreds of millions that he's got stashed away.
I don't understand why not more kingpins follow this tactic.
USP time is just that easy huh
Delete...doubt it... he'll be spendin the rest of his days at ADX Florence Supermax in Colorado...eqtin Hamburger Helper, starin at 4 grey walls, a Bible to read and endless reruns of the Oral Roberts Ministries on TV...I'd-a gone out guns a blazin.
Deletehe does not have hundreds of millions, that's CAP, but yes, maybe a few M, and he will snitch and do 10 yrs in PC, and get a new identity. Gives Canadians a bad name
Delete1:13 whitey has shorter easier time in the joint, they are seen as more redeemable than real criminals beyond redemption, like people of ill refuse.
DeleteTwo different stories I have seen, he turned himself in at the US Embassy, and then in Vanity Fair, there is an account that the FBI HRT team was involved in a dramatic arrest and a negotiated surrender.
ReplyDeleteFBI HRT those guys are elite they train with Delta Force.
ReplyDeleteSicario006 can you explain how he was captured ?
He wasn't. He turned himself in at the American Embassy.
DeleteWere u there
DeleteHRT and Patel just like traveling on airoplanos paid for by the US government to screw their hos and each other at taxpayer expense
DeleteMusk has appointments for travel to Mars send the clowns and leave them stranded there.
12:52 he did not turn himself in at the embassy, the only proof of that is a fake instagram account with AI images!
Delete@12.15. "Were You There?" is a whiney child YouTube question. Contradict or shut up.
Delete@8.34. He agreed to turn himself in days before. It was negotiated to coincide with Patels pre-arranged visit. Everybody looks good, and Wedding knew this.
DeleteJ, from what I have read, it seems to be a negotiated surrender at the US Embassy, so US soil, and those who officially arrested him were from the HRT team and Critical Incident Response Group of the FBI.
ReplyDeleteThe modern Pablo Escobar this admin is laughable overstating this guys criminal power same thing trump does let’s see how much they can prove on this guys it’ll be interesting
ReplyDeleteEspecially since DonFabio Ochoa Restrepo🤌🏻 was Pablo's boss.
DeleteIf he invests 100 mill in Trumps kripto, Trump will pardon him
DeleteTrump owns your soul obviously! LMAO pathetic! Stay on your knees to the bad orange man punk!
Delete2:17 knows...
Delete2:23 gets paid in XXXXXL shitty pampers, they tell him it's gold and tastes like cheetos.
12:17 Ryan Wedding handed himself in to U.S. officials this could indicate he worried for his safety in Mexico.
Delete12:17 Mike Vigil, the former head of International Operations at the DEA, said they could not compare the Canadian with Escobar or El Chapo, because he was a drug buyer.
DeleteThat places him in medium-level narco or client.
Mike Vigil needs to testfy in congress about who is the richest US drug trafficker and what happened to the billions of dollars stolen from Iran-Contra
DeleteHave you seen photos of Mike Vigil? He looks like he is high on something.
Delete4:12 may be sleepy, a clean conscience makes you sleepy, other criminals just can't sleep all night waiting for the Men In White bound to come and pick their ass and take them to the big house,
DeleteLucky me i am at work.
9:36 he is no where on the level of pablo, that's straight cap, pablo fought and died til the end. He wasn't even like chapo who hid got caught, broke free, and got caught again, this dude GAVE UP, scared of the mexicans, basically checked into PC, like Hey Kash, please protect me.
DeleteAnd yes, exactly, he was just a client living in Mex, there's many of them. 60T a year is inflated #s by a govt who knew he would be the next patzy to be sacrified, the pumped those #s in the media and the reward too. A year ago he wasn't known by the public, and his reward was just 50k
1251 Fabio Ochoa was not Pablo Escobar’s boss. The Ochoa’s led a separate organization within the larger Medellin Drug Cartel. Pablo Escobar and his cousin Gustavo Gaviria led the largest and the most powerful of the organizations that made up the cartel. Don Fabio was a very respected figure but not Pablo’s boss
DeleteI’d believe it’s more likely he cut a deal and turned himself in but is sounds so much better if a specialized fbi team captured him lead by trump of course can’t forget that
ReplyDelete12:19 May not sound better but patel el chaparro that looks like the fart went out with the oiily discharge and everything, likes to be in the middle of a lot of big steroid fed meatballs.
Delete1:27 yeah!!! like hitler!!!
DeleteI’d believe it’s more likely he cut a deal and turned himself in but is sounds so much better if a specialized fbi team captured him lead by trump of course can’t forget that
ReplyDeleteSomething must have changed. Or there is some other play here. Protection pulled.
ReplyDeleteTurning himself in on murder charges....murder of a US witness. And a cooperating witness, who was his right hand. It's not like other ones who just have drug charges.
There's two informants, one that wore the wire that was killed in Colo who was just someone Wedding bought product from
DeleteThe second informant is A Clark: was his right hand until arrested and is still alive and cooperating witness
Pos no que lo habian matado saliendo del gimnasio por andar de volado con un homo casado con otro bato?
Delete@1.25. Where did you here that Andy Clark is an informant?
DeleteHis main protector in Mexico was Edgar Aaron Vazquez Alvarado known as the “The General.”
ReplyDeleteIvan snitched
ReplyDeleteBINGO
DeleteSaucedo said it seems Los Chapitos began to provide Mexican authorities with information about Wedding, which may have led to the raids in late December targeting several properties linked to the Canadian.
DeleteSnitcher lil balls truther snitched!!!
Deleteonly does merrrrrika cater to villains that cause caos and destructions in mejico. pathetic anglo saxons.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with finding someone within Trump's DOJ that knows how to take a case to court and get a conviction. Trump fired all the ones who had a good working brain. Maybe Mrs. Pirro can stay sober long enough to get the job done.
ReplyDelete1:17 if pirro gets sober, her chichis will fall out of her dress and her eyes will roll out of their sockets.
DeleteCartels must have turned on him.
ReplyDeleteHow can Ryan be the most wanted trafficker no way is he the most important trafficker in Mexico
ReplyDelete1:24 rayan was just doing diplomatic work in México, it is not like he was flying airplanes or shipping ships to candida.
Delete1:24 rayan was just doing diplomatic work in México, it is not like he was flying airplanes or shipping ships to candida.
DeleteRyan made an estimated 10-12 billion for CDS between 2014-2025. He was probably a top 6-7 drug pusher for CDS in the last decade. Mf was sending multiple-ton shipments. He was a fuckin dog when it came to that shit
DeleteEstimates are unestimated and easily decimated in court.
DeleteWhat is about kim kardashian getting 600 million dollars for half of her cosmetics company and Brittney Spears missing 600 million dollars from her accounts?
Then kim failed her Bar examinations, she can't blame her attorneys or her mom's church of the Big Lard Ass.
8:12 those are inflated #s CDS doesnt need HIM to be their global distributor. He was a client, a good client, and they let him live in their territory. I'd say he bought 1B or less of product off the mexicans in his entire career
DeleteWhy turn yourself in when you’re facing multiple murder charges. Might as well stay on the run forever
ReplyDeleteHe didn’t want to risk getting beheaded or smoked by rival eventually
DeleteHe coulda a just disappeared and retired ...or stopped went independent and started new pipeline on his own compartmentalized
DeleteCan’t just disappear when he sticks out like a sore thumb.
Delete1:28 exactly that.. you know why, because he ain't bout that life. fuckin white guy maple syrup narco. A shame to all real canadian criminals. Ppl talking about him like he's a hero, his career ended with him checking into PC and snitching, what a great story LOL
Delete7:17 he could have flown to dubai and retired and never been touched. he surrendered because he is a perra
Delete853 almost every big time Narco in Mexico is a snitch. Mexican narco culture isn’t like the Sicilian Mafia, they are basically all rats with very few exceptions
DeleteBetter to turn yourself in & make a deal do maybe 15 out in 10 pay a big ass fine but still have hundreds of millions tucked away. Live the next 20 years after that free
ReplyDeleteApparently Mencho owns Menchie’s the frozen yogurt shops…
ReplyDeleteThat's Koo foo
DeleteObviously hes going to do a ovidio 2.0 = Less time & Snitch on every last person he did deals with = many more arrests to come -
ReplyDeleteNeo- Nuffy nuf said!!
Neo-Nuffy is KING! 👑
DeleteWTF happened to og Numb Nuffs?
DeleteNuffy, thank God, finally ran out of gas!
DeleteHe's said enough!!!
Nuffy suspension potty mouth with Sol.
DeleteKoo Foo another numbnuts whose flash in the pan fame is winding down
DeletePraise Jesus! 😂😂
Canadian killing people abroad including Mexicans an you all worried about Trump and the US Army you are all idiots
ReplyDelete2:09 shut the fack up, estupiro
Delete2:09 canadians kill once in a while, the US melitary cooperate with intelligent looking motherfackers that KNOW better and murder millions of people to save them from communismo and christian beliefs of redemption, that the School of Human Rights left behind by convicted mass murdering war criminal henry Kissinger, a jewish neo-nazi supremacista for Belzebub.
DeleteKissinger and his kind turned JFK's Alianza Para El Progreso
Into PARAS for Drug Trafficking
@3:25 Got nothing for a rebuttal other than that nonsense? You can't even spell. The only "estupiro" here is you.
DeleteTrump is your daddy for 3 more years and your sub 70 IQ brain can't handle it. Go scream at the sky about it, I hear it helps, lol. My nuts, your chin.
6:24 you yourself can't obey one simple order:
Deleteshut the fack up!
There is ample evidence and an abundance of reasons why.
6:24 i am not argüing with you, because you are stupid.
Delete624 is definitely a hater and an imbecile no doubt
DeleteKash Patel seems to be enjoying that mexican Kriko 😳😳😳
ReplyDelete2:15 he's just planning to pary in the US gov issued airoplano, he loves to haul his girlfriend's ass on all paid trips wherever he goes on "US Business", and he fires snitches.
Delete2:15 You are evil!
DeleteYou are also right, or somebody is grabbing his ass
The FBI "hostile arrest" narrative is pure Hollywood. If people actually listened to what Omar Garcia Harfuch said, it’s clear: Wedding walked into the embassy and turned himself in. You don’t do that unless the exit ramps have all been turned into brick walls.
ReplyDeleteThe timeline makes it pretty obvious. Ever since Panu was taken out, the writing has been on the wall. Wedding wasn't some untouchable mastermind; he was a liability whose utility was expiring. My guess? He’d been signaling or talking to the Feds for a minute. When you’re caught between a lifetime in ADX Florence and the very real possibility that Iván is about to "retire" you to keep secrets quiet, the embassy starts looking like a five star resort.
He didn't get "caught" - he chose a side before his own side chose to dispose of him. The walls weren't just closing in; they were about to collapse.
They didnt “capture” him. He turned himself in. Kash Patel is such trash.
ReplyDelete321 Pastel an incompetent adderall addict. No Me. Patel, JW Is not the Escobar of our times...
DeleteTrash Patel
DeleteYou're not smart. The FBI has caught 6 of its Top 10 Most Wanted in one year, including someone who was on the list for a decade. You think Wedding woke up and turned himself in because he was bored? He did it because he had nowhere to go. He was too much heat for the cartel and he was going to end up on a narcovideo getting his face skinned off. He can't be out in public, because the cops are looking for him and putting heat on everyone else whole doing so. The pressure got him to turn himself in and the FBI was a huge part of that. He made a deal and will snitch on the guys who wanted to sew his face onto a soccer ball. He'll get 25 years, do 10 and live with some of his millions in witness protection until he dies. The fact you don't understand any of this is absolutely mind boggling. 6 top 10 captures in a year is amazingly successful and anyone who says otherwise is just a dishonest, partisan hack with stage 4 TDS.
DeleteDan Boñigo quit his job as patel #1 lambegüevos: WHY?
Deletepatel is just trying to appear on all the pictures, hoping that someday one makes him look pretty.harfuch too
6:35 it is easy to locate your partners when you have been working with them all your life, ask Fat Tony Salerno and jeffrey epstein...patel also can not find the güebos to produce the Epstein Files, he is 30 days late.
DeleteWhat kind of shoes is this cat wearing on his perp walk?
ReplyDeleteYeezys
DeleteYeezies 😂
DeleteYeezy
DeleteYeezy boost .
DeleteHot deals for those who are smart enough to willingly part with 50% of their illicitly earned assets. Con dinero bailan perros!
ReplyDeleteHis whole network and inner circle had been compromised long ago. Proven with operation black hand . He either been cooperating long time directly or indirectly cooperating because of compromised inner circle and or direct surveillance because of exposed existing conspirators. He's Fucked.
ReplyDeleteCorrection, since operation dead hand
ReplyDeleteIf Ryan Wedding handed himself in to U.S. officials this could indicate he worried for his safety in Mexico. In other cases of traffickers self surrendering, such as of El Mini Lic, they were concerned about being killed by other narcos.
ReplyDeleteSHOULD say "SURRENDERED because most cops are stupid & innept"
ReplyDeleteHere's the true story. Feds found out his location. They quietly asked the Mexican security forces to surround his residence. Then they contacted Wedding and told him that there's only two options: 1) night time raid where he could be accidentally killed during a shoot out, or 2) surrender to the embassy while the locals watch him get there. Wedding obviously chose the latter. There's no deals to be made. He will get life in prison and that's that.
ReplyDeleteSounds like bullshit
DeleteSo called journalists and true-crime-fan-girls/boys are seeing things now... "cartel expert" Katarina Szulcs screams that Wedding is responsible for over 100 murders... https://x.com/KatarinaSzulc/status/2014835590165102839
ReplyDelete1:03 she is a moron, her entire career is ryan and now that is caught all she has left is to hope she gets an interview from him one day
DeleteFuck X on the asterisk*
Deleteand reddit by the way..
Money will set him free
ReplyDeleteRyan will be free in 30 years 🤡🤡 Maybe Clayton Roueche can give Ryan some tips on American jail as hes about to be freed after 20 plus years.
ReplyDeleteA 6' 4" White man hiding in the middle of Oompa-Loompas wasn't going to work in the long run. Mr. Wedding knew he had two choices: being captured by his rivals or being captured by the FBI.
ReplyDelete6'8" !
DeleteThat's Koo foo
Delete9:51 INCHES?
DeleteSOL
Captured lol dude turned himself in and they act like they did something. Sounds trumpy. Ⓜ️Ⓜ️
ReplyDeleteHarfuch made off with half his millions, el lic Mamason complained harfuck stole 10 million dollars he had in his piggy bank, but no bank robbery like 250 million dolares stolen from Zhenly -Ye -Gone by narco presidente FECAL and genarco garcia luna.
DeleteHave you ever seen blood in blood out when montana tells big al im going fold your bluffing hand Trump just did to the democrats
Delete4:22 your bumblin' hero can't hold a little water bottle with one hand, pendejo! LOL
Delete8:01 that's true Midget Mijo!
DeleteHe's alive and El Botas Blancas esta muerto, chingado
ReplyDeleteHe turned himself in before somebody turned him inside out.
ReplyDeleteBest comment..!
DeleteMike Vigil, the former head of International Operations at the DEA, said they could not compare the Canadian with Escobar or El Chapo, because he was a drug buyer. That places him in medium-level narco or client.
ReplyDeleteComparing Ryan to Pablo or Chapo is totally laughable.
ReplyDelete5:26 he was just a mule a buyer
Delete5:26 none of those guys surrendered either. If he was solid, he woud have stayed on the run until they killed him during an attempt to capture him. Then he would have earned "canadian pablo" instead he is canadian sapo
Delete4:23 reminds me of a republican and his mule, he was having an affair with her and could not see what was the problem.
DeleteThis guy showed Markitos toys how to ⛷️
ReplyDeleteHe showed him if you boof it, it's free
DeleteWhat a pussy.
ReplyDeleteHe should overthrow goverments and get the same deal as sicilia falcone, santo trafficante and khun sa. Total immumity and free drugs transportation, possibly even free or lower priced drugs
ReplyDeleteTotal immumity is KING!
Delete1208 Santo Trafficante didn’t get immunity from anything. Government was still going after him until the day he died. If he had lived longer he likely would have gone to prison. About a year before his death he was in bad health and said to his attorney at one point “I don’t want to die in prison”
Delete@447 see my comments below. My favorite quote of the day is Robert Kennedy “the next time you use the mafia,tell me about it first”. lol.
DeleteHoo cares what about the 5 year old boy in custody in Texas
ReplyDelete12:38 I don’t give a shit. Me vale verga
Delete12:38 he’s Ecuadorian so I don’t care
Delete12:38 only care for Mexicans not latinos
DeleteElian Gonzalez?
Delete431
DeleteYep, we remember little elian.
The feds busted in like ICE thug goons, the little fucker was crying, but the gringos did the right thing and gave him back to cuba..
Fidel Castro said he wasn't gonna use the kid as a political prop, and I think he kept his promise.
6:54 the republican'ts were crying, indignant, offended at the abuse and despise shown elan's cuban defenders, (funcking desperate as if they were being robbed of Baby Jesus) and family by Democrat's ICE, a very different ICE, without private prisons and. billions and billions of dollars in contracts to privatize, or steal, or sompim'.
DeleteY entonces llegó Fidel...
Carlos Puebla
Offering up the $40 million in motorcycles must have been part of the deal
ReplyDeleteinflated value
Delete654 that's cute ...
ReplyDeleteTry again...
You changing now to 4 period dic head.
Delete4:19 there's three periods only, give up the grifa güey!
DeletePinche alucino
If we want to be technical there was 6 periods...
DeleteThe man himself and his lawyer claims he didn’t surrender, yet Mexico lies. The US is already taking direct action on Mexican soil. Stay tuned doubters - more to come and yes, “I told you so.” Sheinbum is either going to bend over or get run over. He’s already bending over because the lied about how this man was apprehended.
ReplyDelete@447 was that Trafficante Jr or Sr. KHUN SA,himself named off the chief of station and Trafficante as being the recipient of his drugs. Drug experts often cited his cooperation against Castro as being the reason for his longevity. In a quid pro quo deal , he quietly disappeared into history , his money hidden. He might have expressed a fear of arrest , but he had no reason to fear anything. I think they found his wife in a 150k condo but his billions were laundered for him possibly by the intelligence community snd was never found. He is loosely depicted as Hyman Roth the man who cut the cake in the Godfather movie,giving each of the 5 families a slice.
ReplyDeleteAs far as i know, both Khun Sa and Trafficante enjoyed thier billiond to the end and died old men. One of the great mysteries of Trafficante was where did his money go and why no arrests conflicts or heirs to his organization. Opium production suddenly shifted to Afgahnistan after 1996 when khunSa entered house arrest in Rangoon. I guess the intelligence people shifted to a more lawless locale
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