The Canadian snowboarder-turned-accused cartel leader, who stayed one step ahead of Mexican authorities for a decade, is said to have benefited from valuable assistance. A newly unsealed U.S. indictment says Mexican cartel leader Edgar Aaron “General” Vazquez Alvarado provided Ryan Wedding and his co-conspirators with real police ID cards, falsified to show their own names, as well as a rotating code word that allowed cocaine shipments to slip past security forces, the CBC reports. Entry into Vazquez’s inner circle reportedly cost Wedding $500,000 up front and around $100,000 per month.
Prosecutors also say Los Angeles gang figure Roberto “Fat Boy” Gomez passed information to law enforcement to Wedding, who likely learned of numerous attempts to capture him before his arrest in January. Gomez is a fugitive believed to be in Mexico, according to KNBC. Vazquez was killed by Mexican security forces last week and Wedding, who has pleaded not guilty to murder, money laundering and drug trafficking charges, is in U.S. custody awaiting trial in Los Angeles. The case also ensnared a Mexican judge, arrested last week in Colombia, who is accused of accepting a $2 million bribe to free Wedding’s right-hand man in February 2025, according to the CBC. Andrew Clark was arrested again shortly afterward and allegedly became an FBI informant.
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