{"id":3445,"date":"2026-02-02T03:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:11:15","slug":"so-how-was-ryan-wedding-actually-taken-into-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/so-how-was-ryan-wedding-actually-taken-into-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"So How was Ryan Wedding Actually Taken Into Custody?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a recent article<\/a> I reported the case of Ryan Wedding, a Canadian snowboarder in the 2002 Winter Olympics who is now in U.S. custody, accused of being a major drug trafficker with the Sinaloa Cartel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ryan Wedding. Source: FBI<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

From the Toronto Star<\/a>: “Ryan Wedding<\/a>\u00a0walked into a California courtroom with a sneer, eyeing investigators in the front row and a swarm of journalists packing the gallery. Once a top FBI fugitive,\u00a0Wedding finally faced a U.S. judge in federal court<\/a>\u00a0this week, where he pleaded not guilty to 17 felony charges \u2014 including murder, drug trafficking and other alleged crimes…Mexican and American authorities had cast a wide dragnet to catch the fugitive, and now they have their target. Still, many of the biggest mysteries in this unfolding crime story remain unanswered.” <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. and Mexican governments publicly disagree about how Wedding was arrested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Wedding\u2019s capture has become a major diplomatic flashpoint between two governments. At issue: What exactly did U.S. agents do inside Mexico? According to Mexican officials,\u00a0Wedding voluntarily surrendered himself to the U.S. Embassy<\/a>\u00a0in Mexico City. If you ask American law enforcement leaders, and Wedding\u2019s lawyer, they\u2019d tell you that\u2019s wrong; he was nabbed in what the FBI Director Kash Patel has called a \u201chigh-stakes\u201d tactical operation by U.S. agents. The problem is that from the Mexican perspective, the FBI isn\u2019t supposed to be operating on Mexican soil. Mexico\u2019s President Claudia Sheinbaum has challenged Patel\u2019s description, saying her government would never allow a foreign power to execute such an operation…While the FBI has declined to share more details about the nature of his arrest,\u00a0the Wall Street Journal has reported<\/a>\u00a0that Mexican security forces were closing in when they were joined by U.S. authorities who, following an intense negotiation, apprehended Wedding. It remains unclear if we\u2019ll ever learn the truth.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, FBI Director Kash Patel was in Mexico City when Wedding was detained. And how about this photo of U.S. Ambassador to Mexico\u00a0Ron Johnso<\/a>n, Mexican Security Secretary\u00a0Omar Garcia Harfuch<\/a>, and FBI Director Kash Patel, together? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: Excelsior <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So how was Ryan Wedding actually taken into custody? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a recent article I reported the case of Ryan Wedding, a Canadian snowboarder in the 2002 Winter Olympics who is now in U.S. custody, accused of being a major drug trafficker with the Sinaloa Cartel. From the Toronto Star: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[33,187,27,614,715,161,456,729,124,492,313],"class_list":["post-3445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-claudia-sheinbaum","tag-fbi","tag-kash-patel","tag-omar-garcia-harfuch","tag-ronald-d-johnson","tag-ryan-wedding","tag-sinaloa-cartel","tag-the-u-s-a","tag-u-s-embassy-in-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexiconewsreport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}