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Former Canadian snowboarder Ryan Wedding was named to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list on Friday with a $10 million reward announced for his arrest.

The 43-year-old Wedding is wanted for allegedly running a drug trafficking network that shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine “from Colombia, through Mexico and Southern California, to Canada and other locations in the United States, and for orchestrating multiple murders and an attempted murder in furtherance of these drug crimes,” said the FBI in a press release.

Wedding’s alleged partner in these crimes, 34-year-old Canadian national Andrew Clark, was arrested in Mexico last year by Mexican authorities. Wedding’s whereabouts remain unknown, according to the FBI.

“While we haven’t ruled out other countries, we believe Wedding is residing in Mexico and possibly living under the protection of the Sinaloa drug cartel,” said Akil Davis, the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office on Thursday.

Wedding is reportedly known by several aliases, including “El Jefe,” “Public Enemy” and “Giant.”

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