It’s been a big week in Ryan Wedding news. Just days after a judge was charged with accepting a bribe in relation to the former Olympic snowboarder turned drug kingpin, an alleged Los Angeles gang member has been accused of lending aid to the billion-dollar international drug trafficking organization.
The accused man is Roberto Gomez. Also known “Rob Flores,” “Fat Boy,” “Fats,” and “Rooster,” the 51-year-old is a reputed member of the 38th Street gang. Though he originally hails from the Central Alameda neighborhood of South Los Angeles, he has spent years living in Mexico as a fugitive after being charged in Los Angeles Superior Court in 2000 with two counts of second-degree robbery. In January 2018, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles also indicted Gomez on drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
On November 10, Gomez was charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California in a six-count federal indictment. According to federal prosecutors, Gomez met and communicated with leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel and Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), as well as individuals who had access to information from Mexican and U.S. law-enforcement agencies. He would use those relationships to obtain confidential information related to law enforcement operations, including arrests, drug seizures, warrant executions, and the filing of criminal charges. He then relayed that information to his co-conspirators, including Wedding.
The indictment also alleges that Gomez was an intermediate supplier of narcotics to multiple transnational criminal organizations, transporting cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl into Mexico by air and sea, then on to the United States and Canada by land.
Finally, prosecutors say that Gomez directly assisted Wedding in attempting to evade capture. They allege that he brokered the sale of around 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine between a supplier and Wedding, in exchange for $550,000 in cryptocurrency.
Ryan Wedding, 45, represented Canada at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, where he placed 24th in the men’s parallel giant slalom. Since then, he’s been accused of running a transnational drug trafficking ring. In January 2026 he was arrested by Mexican authorities and transferred to the United States, where he is currently in federal custody awaiting trial.
