The FBI seized a $13-million Mercedes in connection to its Ryan Wedding investigation
Wedding remains at large and on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list
The FBI’s ongoing investigation of former alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding, who represented Canada in snowboarding at the 2002, has led to the discovery of a rare multimillion-dollar “super-car” that authorities say belonged to Wedding’s drug-trafficking empire.
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According to Global News, the Mercedes CLK-GTR is valued at approximately $13 million, and the vehicle seized in relation to Wedding is one of only six ever manufactured. It is not yet known whether Wedding himself owned the car, but the FBI says it was part of his network, which also included planes, boats and trucks.
Wedding is said to have overseen the trafficking of 60 tonnes of cocaine per year in a multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise. He remains at large and is on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
