A former Olympic snowboarder who is now allegedly running a drug cartel orchestrated the killing of a federal witness by releasing his image to a fake news website, the US justice department has said.
Authorities raised the reward for information leading to the arrest of Ryan Wedding from $10m (£7.6m) to $15m, calling him a modern-day Pablo Escobar, referring to the Colombian drug lord.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Mr Wedding, 44, was "responsible for engineering a narco trafficking and narco terrorism programme that we have not seen in a long time".
The US officials said they believe the Canadian, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted, is living in Mexico under the Sinaloa drug cartel's protection.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi alleged that Mr Wedding was behind the murder of a federal witness in a case against him.
