Overview
- Federal prosecutors unveiled new counts of homicide, witness tampering, money laundering and drug trafficking, alleging Wedding helped orchestrate the January 2025 killing of a federal witness in Medellín.
- The State Department increased the reward to up to $15 million for information leading to Wedding’s arrest or conviction.
- The Treasury’s OFAC designated Wedding alongside multiple associates and front companies, freezing U.S.-linked assets and prohibiting transactions with 18 individuals and nine entities.
- Canadian authorities said seven alleged associates were arrested for extradition to the United States as part of coordinated actions reported across Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Colombia.
- Investigators describe a cocaine pipeline from Colombia through Mexico into the U.S. and Canada and say Wedding remains at large under Sinaloa cartel protection, with more than 35 people charged and seizures including 200 kilograms of drugs, weapons, about $32 million in cryptocurrency and $13 million in assets.