Overview
- Federal prosecutors added murder and witness-tampering charges, alleging Ryan James Wedding ordered the January killing of cooperating witness Jonathan Acebedo-Garcia in Medellín, Colombia.
- Authorities say Wedding used the Canadian website The Dirty News to post photos to locate the witness before the shooting, and a separate reward of up to $2 million targets those involved in the hit.
- Officials announced coordinated arrests of associates in Canada, including Ontario lawyer Deepak Paradkar and The Dirty News founder Gursewak Singh Bal, as part of Operation Giant Slalom.
- The Treasury Department imposed new sanctions as investigators detailed seizures of roughly $3.2 million in cryptocurrency and more than $13 million in physical assets, with over 35 people indicted to date.
- Wedding remains on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list and is believed to be hiding in Mexico under protection from Sinaloa cartel affiliates, according to U.S. officials.