Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Bridal ceremony is accused of working an unlimited and violent drug trafficking operation — routinely supply an entire bunch of kilos of cocaine and ordering people to be killed inside the course of … and now he’s wished by the FBI.
Martin Estrada, the U.S. Authorized skilled for the Central District of California, acknowledged on Thursday Bridal ceremony and 15 others have been charged in a 16-count indictment.
43-year-old Bridal ceremony — who used aliases like “El Jefe,” “Massive,” and “Public Enemy” — and his accomplices are being accused of conspiring to ship massive parts of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico and through stash properties inside the LA area … after which delivering it to couriers to be taken to Canada by semi-trucks.
To see their operation by, Bridal ceremony and an affiliate allegedly ordered violent crimes … along with two murders of relations in Ontario, Canada in retaliation for an intercepted drug cargo that was passing by SoCal. Moreover they allegedly ordered one different murder over a drug debt.
As part of the investigation, officers seized a number of ton of blow, $255K in U.S. foreign exchange, $3.2 million in crypto, firearms and ammunition. The org. is accused of delivering 646 kilos of cocaine in March 2024 alone … and tried to ship 827 kilos in April, nonetheless it was intercepted by investigators.
In full, officers say the defendants possessed wherever from $23.4-25.2 million worth of cocaine.
Bridal ceremony has been charged with eight felonies — two counts of conspiracy to distribute managed substances, one rely of conspiracy to export cocaine, one rely of predominant a unbroken felony enterprise, three counts of murder in reference to a unbroken felony enterprise, and drug crime, and one rely of attempt to commit murder in reference to a unbroken felony enterprise and drug crime.
“As alleged inside the indictment, an Olympic athlete-turned-drug lord is now charged with predominant a transnational organized crime group that engaged in cocaine trafficking and murder, along with of innocent civilians,” Estrada acknowledged.
DEA Specific Agent in Value Matthew Allen moreover addressed the alleged drug empire … saying, “The Bridal ceremony Drug Trafficking Group and its unremitting, callous and greed-driven crimes has been working for lots too prolonged, spanning numerous nations, from Colombia by Mexico, the U.S. and to Canada.”
“They’ve triggered an avalanche of violent crimes, along with brutal murders. Bridal ceremony, the Olympian snowboarder, went from navigating slopes to contouring a lifetime of incessant crimes.”
Bridal ceremony had run-ins with the regulation sooner than. In 2010, he was convicted of buying cocaine from a authorities agent. He was sentenced to 4 years in jail.
Bridal ceremony was dwelling in Mexico … and is now thought-about a fugitive. He moreover faces separate drug trafficking costs in Canada from 2015.
For the drug costs alone, Bridal ceremony, if convicted, goes by a minimal of 10 years in jail.
As for the murder and felony enterprise costs, each carries a life sentence in federal jail.
