Criminal conduct
After the 2002 Winter Olympics, Wedding moved back to Vancouver and attended Simon Fraser University. He got into body-building and started working as a bouncer. After two years in university, he quit and began to speculate in real estate, which he financed by growing marijuana at a 6,800-plant warehouse on a suburban property called Eighteen Carrot Farms. In 2006, the RCMP raided the farm and found a shotgun, ammunition, and $10 million worth of cannabis. Wedding was not on the property at the time and there was not enough evidence to charge him. [5]
He expanded his operation when he joined up with Iranian and Russian cocaine smugglers. [6] [8] In 2010, he was convicted of attempting to buy cocaine from a U.S. government agent in 2008, for which he was sentenced to four years in prison. [9] [10] [11]
On 17 October 2024, Wedding was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with "leading a transnational organized crime group that engaged in cocaine trafficking and murder, including of innocent civilians". He is charged with multiple felonies, including drug trafficking, leading a criminal organization, three counts of murder, and one attempt to commit murder. He is currently a fugitive. [12] [13] He was one of sixteen people to be charged as part of operation Giant Slalom in a joint investigation by several federal agencies. [14] The murders in which Wedding is accused of having carried out were of Jagtar Sidhu, 57, his wife, Harbhajan Sidhu, 55 and Mohammed Zafar, 39. The Sidhus were killed in November 2023, while Zafar was killed in May 2024. [15] Wedding is believed to have ordered the murders alongside Andrew Clark, who has been charged with the April 2024 murder of Randy Fader, 29. [16]
According to authorities, since his release, Wedding fled to Mexico and there became a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel (Mexico's largest drug cartel), where he is known by the nicknames "El Jefe," "Giant" or "Public Enemy". [17] [18] The alleged second-in-command of Wedding's trafficking ring was arrested in Mexico in October 2024. [19] [20] On 6 March 2025, Wedding was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, [3] [21] replacing Alexis Flores. [3] The FBI is offering a reward of up to ten million United States dollars for his capture. [21]
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