Marijuana farm After the 2002 Winter Olympics, Wedding moved back to Vancouver and attended
Simon Fraser University. He developed an interest in
bodybuilding and started working as a
bouncer. After two years in university, he dropped out and began to speculate in real estate, which he financed by growing marijuana at a 6,800-plant warehouse on a suburban property called Eighteen Carrot Farms. In 2006, the
RCMP raided the farm and found a shotgun, ammunition, and $10 million worth of cannabis. Wedding was not on the property at the time and there was not enough evidence to charge him. In 2010, he was convicted of attempting to buy cocaine from a U.S. government agent in 2008, for which he was sentenced to four years in prison. He was released in 2011, and around that time he allegedly began his criminal enterprise.
Alleged drug lord On October 17, 2024, Wedding was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with "leading a transnational organized crime group that engaged in cocaine trafficking and murder, including of innocent civilians". He is charged with multiple
felonies, including drug trafficking, leading a criminal organization, three counts of murder, and one attempt to commit murder. He was one of sixteen people to be charged as part of Operation Giant Slalom in a joint investigation by several federal agencies. The murders that Wedding is accused of having carried out were of married couple Jagtar Sidhu, 57, and Harbhajan Sidhu, 55, and of Mohammed Zafar, 39. The Sidhus were killed in November 2023, while Zafar was killed in May 2024. Wedding is believed to have ordered the murders alongside Andrew Clark, who has been charged with the April 2024 murder of Randy Fader, 29. According to authorities, after his release, Wedding fled to
Mexico and became a high-ranking member of the
Sinaloa Cartel, Mexico's largest
drug cartel, where he was known by the nicknames "El Jefe", "Giant" or "Public Enemy". The alleged second-in-command of Wedding's trafficking ring was arrested in Mexico in October 2024. Wedding is accused of having ordered the murder of a federal witness in
Medellín, Colombia, in January 2025. On March 6, 2025, Wedding was added to the
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. He replaced
Alexis Flores, who at the time was removed from the list without having been captured. Flores was later caught in February 2026. The FBI initially offered a reward of up to
US$10 million for Wedding's capture, In November 2025, the FBI announced the arrest of six more defendants in the case, including an attorney for Wedding. He was reported to have turned himself over to authorities, however his attorney Anthony Colombo disputed this claim, saying that Wedding was apprehended non-voluntarily. He first appeared in United States federal court on Monday, January 26, 2026, and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. == Personal life ==