Ryan Wedding, the Canadian former Olympian who became one of North America’s top drug traffickers, hired a group of Colombian hitmen linked to Pablo Escobar to assassinate an FBI informant, Canadian media revealed Wednesday.
The Canadian public broadcaster, CBC, reported that Wedding, 44, hired the so-called “Envigado Office,” a group created by Escobar and, after his death, controlled by drug trafficker and paramilitary leader Diego Fernández Murillo, “Don Berna,” to kill Jonathan Acevedo García.
Acevedo García, a Canadian of Colombian descent, worked for Wedding, known as “El Jefe” (The Boss), organizing cocaine shipments in North America. But in 2024, Acevedo became an FBI informant and offered to testify against his bosses.
According to documents filed by the FBI in US courts, and obtained by CBC, Wedding offered up to five million dollars for Acevedo’s murder after learning he was cooperating with authorities.
On January 31, 2025, shortly before the start of the trial against Wedding’s organization, Acevedo was shot and killed in Medellín while eating at a restaurant.
