Ryan Wedding | Courtesy: MGN

The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed a federal grand jury indictment that charges former Olympian Ryan Wedding with ordering the murder of a federal witness in January 2025.

Wedding, 44, a Canadian national residing in Mexico, is the lead defendant in the newly unsealed indictment that charges him with two additional counts of witness tampering and intimidation, murder, money laundering and drug trafficking. Several other individuals were also named in the indictment.

According to court documents, Wedding is accused of issuing a “multimillion-dollar bounty” on a federal witness who was involved in a 2024 federal narcotics case against him. Court documents claim Wedding enlisted the services of other defendants to allegedly locate and kill the witness,

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