The FBI saw Ryan’s wedding in 2024. Why can’t he be arrested?

It was like seeing a ghost. And the FBI Agents had to make sure there was no mistake.

Investigators, conducting surveillance near Starbucks in Mexico City on Jan. 22, 2024, they just saw two men walking.

One of them, a six-foot-three hulking figure, may have been a ghost they were hunting.

They checked the 2013 Quebec license plate to be sure. He looked different, all these years later. But there was little doubt when the man heard later, using his real name.

“Ryan.”

The FBI was able to get an eye on Ryan James Wedding, a Canadian they suspected of working in the smuggling operation of cocaine in South and North America.

The episode in the coffee shop – described by the US prosecutors in the court documents summarizes their affair in the marriage – the only figures to see the authorities confirmed that the criminal cases started as early as 2015.

So, why don’t they blame him, then them too?

The question has been treading on the social media since the US Federal Anipentity At the beginning of this month announced new charges against the marriage, 44, and the one accused of non-cooperation and increased his traffic in his capture to 15 million.

First, there is the problem of cheating. Any arrests in Mexico would have to be made by Mexican authorities, said retired FBI Special Agent Kenneth Grey.

“Even if the FBI had information about the location of the marriage, and the information was given to the Mexican authorities, there is no guarantee that they will be able to proceed with that information in a timely manner and make an arrest,” said Professor in the Department of Justice at the University of New Haven, Conne.

But there’s another reason, as laid out in pages of lawsuits, financial documents and other court records reviewed by CBC News last year.

It was the RCMP who wanted to get married in 2015, where he lived Montreal. Born in Thunder Bay, ie.

By 2024, the marriage had left Mexico – living under aliases such as James Conrad King, Jesse King and an enemy of the government – and was on the FBI’s radar. His drug trafficking network, now connected to a number of hurdlers, allegedly grew into a Transnational Empire, starting at $1 billion US a year.

Working with exoneration, the US drug administration, the Los Angeles police and other agencies, the FBI built its own marriage. It was only a matter of time before the marriage was taken and a trial was held in LA

That meeting in StArbucks was just one step in a strange investigation.

That afternoon, the couple talked business with two Canadians. The person will be in custody within months. Another – an FBI student – would wake up.

The meeting was removed by Jonathan Acebedo-Garcia, a drug trafficker born in Monathal in his previous 40 drug dealings in 2011, as both served time in a Texas prison.

After their release, Acebedo-Garcia began working for the marriage in two important roles, according to US prosecutors. He was going to stop moving the cocaine’s shipment to Canada, and go back to Him in Mexico.

The couple had been transferred over encrypted chat platforms “on an almost daily or weekly basis” since 2013, prosecutors wrote in court filings.

But – a young marriage knows – their relationship just took a turn.

A month before the meeting in Mexico City, Acebedo-Garcia agreed to cooperate with law enforcement, hoping to avoid prosecution himself.

He will continue to assist investigators in accessing communications and meetings involving the couple and his co-workers, according to court documents, as part of the FBI-LED Operation Giant Bralom.

In January 2024, Acebedo-Garcia was working in the surveillance of the FBI and in charge of the recording device in that meeting over coffee.

Investigators identified another man who was traveling with the wedding as Network’s “second,” Andrew Clark. Toronto-Area Area Elevator mechanic, Clark had met acebedo-garcia earlier in the week, who allegedly boasted of sending 2,000,000,000 kilos of cocaine per month to Canada, including 600 kg to Alberta.

Clark and Acebedo-Garcia purportedly discussed a plan to hire a Toronto-area trucking network to move drugs from California to Canada, at a flat rate of between $175,000 to $225,000 per shipment.

The two men seem to meet.

“It’s really good to meet U Bro ty for everyone,” Acebedo-Garcia told Clark about the app’s secretive apps, according to their conversations included in the Ontario court filing.

“Yeah bro..ed good to see you,” Clark replied, unaware that the FBI was monitoring – and targeting – his new communications.

Acebedo-Garcia will continue to have other meetings with other accused persons in Brampton, i.e., and Dubai. He agreed to testify against the accused Governor in court and helped the FBI gather enough evidence to finally make their move.

Clark was arrested on Oct. 8, 2024 in the area of ​​Guadalajara, in a surprise operation involving the Mexican military. He pleaded guilty to 11 counts related to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and the murders of four people in Ontario, including A foul shot of an Indian family.

In total, more than 30 members and suspects have been identified by US Friminal prosecutors, while others have been arrested in Colombia, Alberta, BC, Ontario, Quebec, California and Florida.

But marriage remains wherever it is found.

In March, he was added to the FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives list. CBC News corn In the months when the FBI was looking at some manhunt efforts in the central region of Mexico, near the capital of Mexico where it was seen in January 2024.

As for Acebedo-garcia, he was shot in the head while eating with friends at a restaurant in Medellin, Colombia, on Jan 31, 2025 – almost a year after his wedding to Clark at Starbucks. US prosecutors suspect the murder was arranged by a marriage.