Overview
- A superseding indictment accuses Ryan James Wedding of ordering the Jan. 31 Medellín killing of cooperating witness Jonathan Acebedo‑Garcia, adding counts of murder, witness tampering, intimidation, money laundering, and major drug offenses.
- Officials announced coordinated arrests tied to the network, including Ontario lawyer Deepak Paradkar and others in Canada, with U.S. prosecutors seeking extraditions under an operation dubbed “Giant Slalom.”
- Prosecutors say associates used a Canadian site called The Dirty News to post the witness’s photo to help locate him, and authorities are offering separate rewards of up to $2 million for information on those involved in the killing.
- Treasury imposed sanctions on Wedding and affiliates as investigators detailed seizures of roughly $3.2 million in cryptocurrency plus more than $13 million in physical assets during the multi‑year probe.
- Authorities allege the group works with the Sinaloa cartel to move about 60 metric tons of cocaine annually via semi‑trucks into Southern California and Canada; Wedding remains on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list and is believed to be hiding in Mexico.