FBI agents in Los Angeles have seized a rare Mercedes Roadster worth $13 million as part of their drug trafficking investigation into former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding.<\/p>\n
The car, a silver 2002 Mercedes CLK-GTR, is one of six of its kind ever made, according to Autoblog<\/a>. Federal investigators believe the car may be connected to Wedding and his associates, who are accused of transporting cocaine from Mexico into the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, prosecutors unsealed an indictment<\/a> that accuses Wedding of ordering the killing of a witness who had planned to testify against him in a 2024 federal narcotics case.<\/p>\n The witness was shot and killed in a restaurant in Medell\u00edn, Colombia, in January, The Times reported.<\/p>\n Wedding is on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list for allegedly running a vast and lucrative criminal enterprise. The Canadian-born snowboarder competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, placing 24th in the men’s parallel giant slalom.<\/p>\n Read more: Olympic snowboarder turned drug lord ordered killing of witness against him, feds charge<\/a><\/p>\n “He chose to become a major drug trafficker and a killer,” said U.S. Atty. for the Central District of California Martin Estrada during a news conference last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n Federal agents also announced the seizure of a website, TheDirtyNewz.com<\/a>, a blog on Canadian gang crime operated by a co-defendant in the case who allegedly helped publicize a potential federal witness against the narcotics operation who was then later killed. Site owner Gursewak Singh Bal, 31, of Mississauga, Ontario, was among 11 defendants arrested this month.<\/p>\n The FBI recently raised the reward<\/a> for turning in Wedding to $15 million. Investigators did not provide details on the role the two-door Mercedes may have played in Wedding’s crimes.<\/p>\n