Ryan Wedding — the former Olympic snowboarder-turned alleged El Chapo-esque drug trafficker — has been arrested a year after landing on the FBI’s most wanted list, the feds announced Friday.

Wedding was taken into custody Thursday night in Mexico — where he was believed to be hiding out for more than a decade, evading charges related to what the FBI says is a violent multinational drug empire.

“To tell you how bad of a guy Ryan Wedding is, he went from an Olympic snowboarder to the largest narco traffickers in modern times,” FBI Director Kash Patel told reporters at the Ontario International Airport in Southern California — flanked by US and Canadian agents.

“He’s a modern day El Chapo, he is a modern day Pablo Escobar and he thought he could evade justice,” he said.

He will be transported back to the US to face charges, Patel said.

Wedding was wanted by the feds for running an alleged transnational drug trafficking enterprise, shipping massive amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the US and Canada.

Wedding — whose aliases include “El Jefe,” “Giant,” “Public Enemy,” “James Conrad King,” and “Jesse King” — is also accused of involvement in several murders.

“Wedding went from shredding powder on the slopes at the Olympics to distributing powder cocaine on the streets of U.S. cities and in his native Canada,” said Akil Davis, assistant director of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office when he was added to the agency’s Most Wanted List in March.

He was arrested in Mexico City, although Patel declined to provide additional details about the operation, which was carried out with Mexican, Canadian and local law enforcement partners.

Wedding’s arrest marks the sixth FBI top-ten most wanted fugitive captured under the Trump administration, according to Patel.

“This individual and his organization and the Sinaloa cartel poured narcotics into the streets of North America and killed too many of our youth and corrupted too many of our citizens. And that ends today,” Patel said.

Wedding was added to the FBI’s list of ten most wanted fugitives early last year, with the feds bumping the reward to $15 million in November for information leading to his arrest and/or prosecution — the highest bounty of any suspect on the FBI’s list.

Wedding, who competed for Canada as a snowboarder at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah, allegedly smuggled 60 metric tons of cocaine into the US through Mexico and into southern California, officials said.

In November, he was charged in a superseding indictment with ordering the killing of a federal witness who was scheduled to testify against him.

The witness was shot dead in a restaurant in Medellin, Colombia, on Jan. 31, according to the feds, who charged Wedding with two additional counts of witness tampering and intimidation, money laundering and drug trafficking.

The Thunder Bay, Ontario-born fugitive was believed to be living in Mexico working closely with the Sinaloa Cartel, according to authorities. 

His alleged number two, Andrew Clark, 34 — also a Canadian citizen — was arrested in October 2024 in Mexico and extradited to the US to face charges.

Wedding and Clark allegedly directed the Nov. 2023 murders of two members of a family in Ontario, Canada, in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment that passed through California, according to officials.

They also allegedly ordered the murder of another victim in May 2024 over a drug debt, according to the FBI.

He was arrested for the first time in California in 2008 and found guilty the following year of conspiring to traffic cocaine, which landed him behind bars in federal prison for four years.

In 2011, a year into his four-year prison sentence, Wedding got married behind bars to an Iranian-born businesswoman from British Columbia, CBC reported.

Canadian investigators had been tracking Wedding in his home country since 2015 but after he fled, the US DOJ joined the effort to find him.

They dubbed the case “Operation Giant Slalom” — after the race Wedding competed in at the Salt Lake City Olympics.

The feds have nabbed at least 36 men connected to Wedding’s cocaine empire, Patel said, and are still seeking several more individuals.