{"id":425526,"date":"2026-01-23T18:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/425526\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:55:08","slug":"ryan-wedding-arrested-fbi-confirms-former-olympian-turned-drug-kingpin-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/425526\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Wedding arrested: FBI confirms former Olympian turned drug kingpin in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second man extradited to US along with Weddingpublished at 17:35 GMT<\/p>\n<p>17:35 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A mugshot of Castillo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b136c394-8fa2-4359-85d5-fc0b546ec9a9.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"370\" height=\"208\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, FBI<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his remarks, Patel confirmed the arrest and extradition of another man who had been on the FBI&#8217;s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He only gives his last name &#8211; Castillo &#8211; and appears to be referencing fugitive Alejandro Castillo, who is now labeled as &#8220;captured&#8221; on the FBI&#8217;s list. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Castillo is wanted for the murder of his former girlfriend in 2016, Truc Quan \u201cSandy\u201d Ly Le, who he met when they were both working in a North Carolina restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The FBI says he owed the victim around $1,000 at the time of the murder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Castillo, who was 17-years-old at the time of the killing, crossed into Mexico two months later. Officials said he was to be considered &#8220;armed and extremely dangerous&#8221; and had offered a $250,000 award for information leading to his capture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a news release from last week, the FBI announced that Castillo had been captured in Hidalgo, Mexico, and would be extradited to North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second man extradited to US along with Weddingpublished at 17:35 GMT 17:35 GMT Image source, FBI During his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-425526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}