United States Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced Wednesday new developments in the pursuit of Ryan James Wedding, a Canadian and former Olympic snowboarder alleged to be one of the biggest drug traffickers in the world.

The developments included the arrests in Quebec on Tuesday of a Montrealer and an alleged organized crime figure.

A Canadian lawyer was also arrested in the U.S. on Tuesday, as was a Latin pop star, authorities said. They are alleged to have orchestrated the fatal shooting of a federal witness killed in Colombia earlier this year.

“Wedding is the former Olympian from Canada who is now the leader of a transnational criminal enterprise,” Bondi said of Wedding, who has been on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list for months. Wedding used to reside in Montreal, but he disappea

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