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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update breaking crime news.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Former Olympic snowboarder accused of overseeing a massive drug trafficking

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Speaker 1: ring and orchestrating the murder of a witness. Feds allege

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Speaker 1: Ryan James Wedding, who repped Canada in the Winter Olympics

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Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, put a hit on a federal witness.

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Speaker 1: After being indicted, Wedding makes it to the FBI's ten

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Speaker 1: Most Wanted Fugitives list, authorities offering fifteen million dollars for

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Speaker 1: info leading to his capture.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. Ryan Wedding, whose aliases include el Hefe,

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Speaker 2: Giant Public Enemy, James Conrad King, and Jesse King, is

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Speaker 2: wanted for allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking network that

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Speaker 2: routinely shift hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Columbia to

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Speaker 2: Canada and other locations in the United States, and for

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Speaker 2: orchestrating multiple murders and furtherance of these drug crimes. The

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Speaker 2: latest super indictment against Wedding and thirty six co conspirators

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Speaker 2: alleges he killed a federal witness in June twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Wedding and his second in command Andrew Clark, thirty four,

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Speaker 2: were charged in an indictment out of the Central District

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Speaker 2: of California with running a continuing criminal enterprise, committing murder

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Speaker 2: in connection with a continuing criminal enterprise, and conspired to possess, distribute,

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Speaker 2: and export cocaine. Clark, who was arrested last October by

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Speaker 2: Mexican authorities, was among the twenty nine fugitives who arrived

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Speaker 2: in the United States for Mexico in March of this year.

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Speaker 2: In September twenty twenty four, a federal grand jury returned

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Speaker 2: to superseding indictment, naming fourteen additional defendants and including, among

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Speaker 2: other counts, an attempted murder charge against wedding In Clark.

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Speaker 2: The superseding indictment alleges that Wedding, Clark, and others conspired

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Speaker 2: to ship bulk quantities of cocaine weighing hundreds of kilograms

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Speaker 2: from southern California to Canada through a Canada based drug

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Speaker 2: transportation network run by Hardeep Wrought forty six and Gerpete

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Speaker 2: Singh thirty one, both from Ontario, Canada, from approximately January

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four to August twenty twenty four. The cocaine

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Speaker 2: shipments were transported from Mexico to the Los Angeles area,

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Speaker 2: where the cocaine trafficking organization's operatives stored the cocaine in

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Speaker 2: stash houses before delivering it to the Transportation Network couriers

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Speaker 2: for delivery to Canada using long haul semi trucks. The

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Speaker 2: September indictment also alleges that Wedding in Clark's organization resorted

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Speaker 2: to violence, including multiple murders, to achieve its aims. Wedding

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Speaker 2: and Clark allegedly directed the November twentieth, twenty twenty three

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Speaker 2: murders of two members of a family in Ontario in

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Speaker 2: retaliation for a stolen drug shipment that passed through southern California.

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Speaker 2: Wedding and Clark allegedly also ordered the murder of another

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Speaker 2: victim on May eighteenth, twenty twenty four, over a drug debt.

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Speaker 2: In addition, Clark and Malik Damian Cunningham twenty three, a

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Speaker 2: dual Canadian American citizen, are charged with the April first,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four murder of another victim in Ontario. In

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Speaker 2: new and detments announced last week, Wedding is accused of

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Speaker 2: ordering the murder of a federal witness who was executed

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Speaker 2: with five bullets to the head earlier this year before

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Speaker 2: he could testify against Wedding. Among several subjects arrested in

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Speaker 2: Canada just ahead of the indictment was Wedding's attorney, Depak

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Speaker 2: perod Car, who allegedly recommended to Wedding that he have

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Speaker 2: the witness murdered. The FBI urges anyone with information as

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Speaker 2: to weddings whereabouts to contact their local FBI office, the

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Speaker 2: nearest American embassy or consulate, or submit a tip online

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Speaker 2: at tips dot FBI dot gov. Investigators believe that Wedding

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Speaker 2: is residing in Mexico, but have not ruled out his

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Speaker 2: presence in the United States, Canada, Columbia, Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica,

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Speaker 2: or elsewhere. More crime and justice news after this. An

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Speaker 2: Illinois man is facing charges after allegedly grooming and sexually

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Speaker 2: assaulting a fourteen year old girl before killing her. According

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Speaker 2: to the Vandalia Police Department, Kylie Toberman disappeared on the

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Speaker 2: morning of November fourteenth. Later that afternoon, police found her body.

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Speaker 2: Police arrested Arnold Rivera, forty three, in connection with Kylie's

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Speaker 2: death on November sixteenth. It's believed that Kylie and Rivera

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Speaker 2: were in a car together and at some point he

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Speaker 2: sexually assaulted the young teen. State attorney Brenda Matisse alleged

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Speaker 2: that Rivera then strangled Kylie with jumper cables. He then

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Speaker 2: put her body in a tote and hid it in

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Speaker 2: an RV. Police found the RV in Vandalia, behind the

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Speaker 2: house where Kayley reportedly lived with her adoptive mother, Donna

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Speaker 2: Toberman sixty five. Toberman is Rivera's mother and Rivera was

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Speaker 2: considered to be Kylie's step uncle. Tooberman is separately facing

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Speaker 2: four charges of unlawful possession of a firearm. Court records

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Speaker 2: indicate that Rivera has a criminal history that includes dismissed

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Speaker 2: charges of criminal sexual abuse involving a child between the

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Speaker 2: ages of nine and sixteen, as well as burglary. The

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Speaker 2: charges were dismissed in exchange for a guilty plea to

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Speaker 2: felony aggravated batteries. The felony charge resulted in thirty one

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Speaker 2: months of probation that ended in March twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: In two thousand and eight, Rivera received twenty four months

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Speaker 2: of probation for possession of a stolen vehicle. Rivera's estranged wife,

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Speaker 2: Paige Stone, said he manipulated her when she was a minor.

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Speaker 2: Stone said, I was fourteen when I met that man.

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Speaker 2: I was the babysitter. He was married with two kids. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: Kylie's biological mother, Megan Zeller, described her daughter as brilliant

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Speaker 2: and sassy. She loved animals and her sisters. The junior

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Speaker 2: high student had just been deemed most improved wrestler by

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Speaker 2: her team. Kylie's friend since preschool, Caitlin Schellenberger, called the

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Speaker 2: loss of her friend unimaginable, saying it broke my heart

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Speaker 2: because she was the sweetest, kindest person, and she had

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Speaker 2: so much life left to live. She was only fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Rivera remains behind bars without bond. For the latest crime

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Speaker 2: and justice breaking news, be sure to follow the Crime

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Speaker 2: crime Alert. I'm Sidney Sumner.