FBI's Most Wanted Trafficker Ryan James Wedding Part 2: Canadian Gang Leader, Lawyer & Blogger Arrested in Killing of FBI Informant

In new indictments announced, Wedding is accused of ordering the murder of a federal witness. “The witness was gunned down at a restaurant in Medellín before he could testify against Wedding,” US Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

Known by the aliases “King” and “James Conrad,” after a character in the 2017 film Kong: Skull Island, Ryan James Wedding comes from a well-to-do middle-class family in British Columbia. After the 2002 Olympics, where his snowboarding skills placed him 26th in the parallel giant slalom, he spent two years studying at a university in the Vancouver metropolitan area.

According to Rolling Stone reporter Jesse Hyde, who has been tracking Wedding since 2009, he was drawn to the nightlife and the violent local crime scene. Wedding worked as a nightclub security guard, while setting up a massive marijuana growing operation. 

In 2006, Canadian authorities seized his warehouses, plants, and equipment ending his cannabis career. Not long afterwards, the Canadian moved into the big leagues of the drug trade, the cocaine market, and made his way to California.

Unfortunately for Wedding, one of his first purchases, monitored by the FBI in Southern California, went wrong. Authorities arrested Wedding and sent him to prison. It was 2008 and he would spend three years in prison, in San Diego and Texas, until he was transferred to Canada in 2011 to finish serving his sentence there. In US prison, Wedding made many connections in the drug trade, including through his first wife.

He was expected to testify that he met Wedding in 2011 while both were incarcerated at the same Texas prison, and that he communicated with Wedding using encrypted messages almost daily or weekly since around 2013. His role was to oversee the delivery of cocaine to couriers for transport to customers in Canada, and then launder the proceeds back to Wedding in Mexico.

Acebedo-Garcia was listed as a director of several companies registered in Quebec, including a bar located in the Ahuntsic district of Montreal, a gas station in Laval, a holding company and a vehicle detailing business.

“[Victim A] down…”

“BOOM! Headshot”.

“One of the informants involved in dismantling Ryan ‘Snowboarder aka SB’ Wedding’s transnational organization/ criminal network has been assassinated in Colombia. 

“As soon as the world learned who SB was (USA X Canada Investigations gone public via media releases), there were bounties being placed on every individual involved in ‘snitching’ on the kingpins operations. Some of these bounties were being reported as 7 figure hits. It turns out they got [Victim A] in #Colombia He got hit with a sniper while sitting at a restaurant. The criminal underworld will always find you. The world isn’t big enough to hide.”

Atna “Tupac” Onha

Onha is sometimes nicknamed “The Ghost” for his discreet manner of travel in an armored vehicle and regularly wearing a bulletproof vest. He reportedly owns several properties to avoid spending the night in the same place for several consecutive days, a third police source confirms. There are reports from the Canadian media that he has had three death contracts placed on him since 2023.

According to police contacts, Onha and Wedding are believed to be the reason why the price of a kilo of cocaine has remained low in Montreal in recent years. Police believe Wedding is deliberately lowering prices to attract independent dealers. Their goal? To wrest control of the drug trade in Canada from traditional organized crime.

Atna (lower left) claiming Crips/Blue in the early 2000s.

In the early 2000s, Onha founded a gang called Black Mafia Clique (BMC), which has since disbanded. It was the first group in Quebec to bring together members of both blue and red allegiances. At that time, the Crips and Bloods were rivals in Canada, stemming from their Los Angeles lineage.

This garnered Onha alliances with several important organized crime figures including Italian Mafiosos, and Hells Angels bikers but he would later break these alliances in order to work with newer, more independent groups.

Onha seen meeting with several Hells Angels bikers and gang members in 2020.

Police believe that the murders of several of Onha’s close associates (Frantz Louis, Ernst Exantus and Arsène Mompoint) may have marked the end of his ties with the Montreal mafia.

Onha’s main confidant was Christopher-Shawn Jean Vilsaint, who was murdered on May 14, 2024, in Montreal. Like Vilsaint, he was from the Villeray area. Police believe Onha may be behind the recent attempted murder of gang leader Markens Vilme in prison. According to our sources, this was an act of revenge for Vilsaint’s death.