Former President Joe Biden used the FBI to go after his political opponents.
But President Trump has made it clear that the FBI will revert back to enforcing the law.
And Kash Patel’s FBI just announced a massive manhunt for one terrifying fugitive nobody would have expected.
FBI announces new “Top 10 Most Wanted”
Freshly-confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel is already leaping head-on into his plan to restore the Bureau’s image.
Patel has emphasized that the bureau would no longer participate in political witch hunts, promising to instruct his agents to “go be cops” instead.
The FBI was created in order to pursue and capture criminals who crossed state lines, not to target and spy on parents who peacefully protested their local school boards.
Already the Bureau just made a massive announcement for a new fugitive that will be joining the famed “Top 10 Most Wanted” list.
The target is former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, who is wanted for his connection to an international drug trafficking operation and an alleged murder.
In a recent statement, the FBI published, “Former Olympic snowboarder and Canadian national, Ryan Wedding, 43, has been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list…”
“Ryan Wedding, whose aliases include ‘El Jefe,’ ‘Giant,’ ‘Public Enemy,’ ‘James Conrad King,’ and ‘Jesse King,’ was born in Thunder Bay, Canada, and competed in the Giant Slalom snowboarding competition during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah,” continued the statement.
“At present, Wedding is wanted for allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking network that routinely 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,” explained the FBI.
The Bureau announced that they are also offering a reward of $10 million for Wedding.
FBI announces massive manhunt for former Canadian Olympian
Assistant Director of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office Akil Davis published a statement announcing the manhunt for Wedding.
“Wedding went from shredding powder on the slopes at the Olympics to distributing powder cocaine on the streets of U.S. cities and in his native Canada…,” his statement began.
The Los Angeles FBI assistant director’s cliche language may be rooted in the fact that he’s a holdover from the Biden administration, with Davis being appointed assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles Field Office in May 2024 by then-FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Wedding didn’t “shred” powder or compete in the popular halfpipe or slopestyle that many in the public likely imagine when they hear about an Olympic snowboarder.
Instead, Wedding was a racer, competing as what’s often referred to pejoratively in ski and snowboarding circles as a “gate basher” – a term derived from the red and blue gates racers turn around on a race course, typically slamming them down as they do.
Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding is accused of running a major transnational drug trafficking organization that shipped massive amounts of cocaine and allegedly hired hitmen to murder multiple people, federal officials said. @molareports has more. pic.twitter.com/Jq3hMTico6
— Good Morning America (@GMA) October 18, 2024
“The alleged murders of his competitors make Wedding a very dangerous man, and his addition to the list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, coupled with a major reward offer by the State Department, will make the public our partner so that we can catch up with him before he puts anyone else in danger,” he announced.
Following Wedding’s appearance in the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, his life has left everyone puzzled.
An investigation was opened in 2006 into his alleged massive marijuana grow operation, but no charges were ever filed.
In 2010, Wedding was sentenced to four years in prison after he attempted to purchase cocaine from an undercover cop two years prior.
Since then, it has been a downhill slope for the former Olympian.
The FBI added in their statement, “In June 2024, Wedding and his second-in-command Andrew Clark, 34, also Canadian, were charged in an indictment out of the Central District of California with running a continuing criminal enterprise; committing murder in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise and assorted drug crimes; and conspiring to possess, distribute, and export cocaine.”
“Clark, who was arrested last October by Mexican authorities, was among the 29 fugitives whom Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced had arrived in the United States from Mexico last week,” the Bureau concluded.
This information confirms the need to secure the southern border.
Illegal immigration is only one part of the overall problem taking place at the border.
The open border – which was opened even wider by Democrats and Joe Biden – has made it far too easy for drug traffickers to cross the border between the United States and Mexico.
Trump has tried to generate new motivation by Mexican authorities to join the effort to secure the border by threatening new and increased tariffs.
