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🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Once a promising snowboarder, Ryan James Wedding traded the slopes for smuggling routes in a shocking descent into the world of international drug trafficking. The Opportunists unpacks how fame, ambition, and risk collided in one man’s transformation from athlete to criminal.
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1:04.6 | I cannot overstate the shock of him being at $10 million on the FBI's most wanted list. |
1:11.6 | Right now, one of the most wanted men in the world is completely off the grid. |
1:18.7 | He could be hiding out in any number of places, pulling the puppet strings of a global drug empire, |
1:25.3 | watching and waiting. In 15 years of covering organized crime, I don't think I've ever seen a single person dabble in so many criminal poems. |
1:42.3 | He's got ties to in so many criminal polls. |
1:45.0 | He's got ties to a litany of criminal organizations. |
1:50.0 | Finanenseers from Hezbollah, Mexican hotels, |
1:57.0 | Hell's Angels, Punjabi gangs. |
2:00.0 | Between his leadership skills and logistical know-how, Hell's Angels, Punjabi gangs. |
2:04.6 | Between his leadership skills and logistical know-how, he's earned a reputation for getting along with people operating outside the law. |
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