Seven people linked to a Canadian former Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin have been arrested in Canada, including his lawyer, officials said Wednesday.

Ryan Wedding, 44, who is believed to be hiding out in Mexico, is wanted by the United States on drug and murder charges and is on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list.

The State Department announced on Wednesday that it was increasing the reward for information leading to Wedding's arrest to $15 million from $10 million.

FBI Director Kash Patel described Wedding at a press conference in Washington as a "modern day iteration of Pablo Escobar," the notorious Colombian drug lord who died in 1993.

"(Wedding) is responsible for engineering a narco-trafficking and narco-terrorism program that we have not seen in a long ti

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