Overview
- FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed that Wedding, 44, was taken into custody Thursday night in Mexico and transported to the United States.
- Indictments allege he led a multinational cocaine operation that moved loads via semitrucks from Colombia through Mexico to Southern California and Canada, with protection from the Sinaloa Cartel.
- Prosecutors accuse Wedding of orchestrating multiple killings, including a federal witness identified via a post on the Canadian site The Dirty News and later shot in Medellín.
- Authorities credit coordinated efforts by U.S., Mexican and Canadian partners for the capture; Wedding had been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list with a reward of up to $15 million.
- A Mexican security official told the Associated Press that Wedding surrendered at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City, a detail reported anonymously and not formally confirmed by U.S. authorities.