FBI brokers in Los Angeles have seized a uncommon Mercedes Roadster price $13 million as a part of their drug trafficking investigation into former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding ceremony.
The automobile, a silver 2002 Mercedes CLK-GTR, is one in every of six of its type ever made, in keeping with Autoblog. Federal investigators consider the automobile could also be linked to Wedding ceremony and his associates, who’re accused of transporting cocaine from Mexico into the U.S. and Canada.
Earlier this month, prosecutors unsealed an indictment that accuses Wedding ceremony of ordering the killing of a witness who had deliberate to testify towards him in a 2024 federal narcotics case.
The witness was shot and killed in a restaurant in Medellín, Colombia, in January, The Instances reported.
Wedding ceremony is on the FBI’s Ten Most Needed checklist for allegedly operating an enormous and profitable felony enterprise. The Canadian-born snowboarder competed within the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake Metropolis, inserting twenty fourth within the males’s parallel large slalom.
“He selected to turn out to be a serious drug trafficker and a killer,” stated U.S. Atty. for the Central District of California Martin Estrada throughout a information convention final yr.
Federal brokers additionally introduced the seizure of an internet site, TheDirtyNewz.com, a weblog on Canadian gang crime operated by a co-defendant within the case who allegedly helped publicize a possible federal witness towards the narcotics operation who was then later killed. Website proprietor Gursewak Singh Bal, 31, of Mississauga, Ontario, was amongst 11 defendants arrested this month.
The FBI lately raised the reward for delivering Wedding ceremony to $15 million. Investigators didn’t present particulars on the position the two-door Mercedes might have performed in Wedding ceremony’s crimes.
