FBI says tips coming in on whereabouts of fugitive Canadian ex-Olympian Ryan Wedding [Video]

More than three weeks after the FBI first offered a reward of up to $50,000 US for information leading to the arrest of Ryan Wedding, investigators say tips have been coming in. But the manhunt continues for the former Team Canada Olympic snowboarder, accused of leading a murderous, transnational drug trafficking operation.

“The FBI has, and continues to receive, information related to the whereabouts of Ryan Wedding,” FBI spokesperson Rukelt Dalberis told CBC News in an email. “Tips received at this point have yet to lead to an arrest.”

Wedding, who competed at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, faces eight felony charges in California and is accused of ordering three murders in the Toronto area. According to a U.S. federal indictment unsealed last month, the 43-year-old ran a $1-billion US criminal enterprise importing some 60 tons of Colombian cocaine a year, through Mexico and California, then …