A former Olympian is on the run after federal prosecutors charged him with a sweeping “cross-border drug trafficking” scheme.

As NBC News reports, former Canadian snowboarder Ryan James Wedding is one of 16 people named in a superseding indictment filed Oct. 17 by federal prosecutors. It is alleged that Wedding and his co-conspirators “routinely shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine” – 60 tons per year, it is said The Washington Postto Mexico to Southern California and into Canada – and “staged several murders in furtherance of these drug crimes.”

“Instead of using the privileges that come with being an Olympic athlete to do good for people, he did the opposite,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said at a press conference for the prosecution. “He chose to become a major drug trafficker and he chose to become a murderer.”

Nicknamed “El Jefe,” “Enemy of the State” and “Giant,” Wedding now faces eight counts related to the export and distribution of a controlled substance, as well as multiple murders. The indictment alleges that Wedding and his co-conspirator Andrew Clark (“The Dictator”) ordered the retaliatory shooting of two people in Ontario and the murder of another person who allegedly owed them a “drug debt.”

“Anyone who stood in their way became the target of violence – including murder,” Estrada said, claiming that enemies of the “extremely prolific and ruthless” operation were dispatched “execution-style.”

The “Olympic athlete-turned-drug lord,” as prosecutors call him in the indictment, competed in the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. He finished 24th in the men's parallel giant slalom. As noted in his profile on Olympics.com, he was convicted in 2010 of attempting to purchase cocaine from a government agent and sentenced to prison in the United States. He then moved to Mexico.

As part of the case against the billion-dollar “Wedding Drug Trafficking Organization,” investigators seized “more than a ton of cocaine, three firearms, dozens of rounds of ammunition, $255,400 in U.S. dollars and more than $3.2 million in cryptocurrency “. say prosecutors.

Wedding is currently on the run. The FBI is offering up to $50,000 to anyone with information leading to their arrest.