A Miami music executive has been indicted in a massive and allegedly murderous federal drug trafficking case involving criminal activity that spanned from Los Angeles to Miami-Dade counties and beyond and has the FBI seeking a former Canadian Olympian.
According to the indictment, Nahim Jorge Bonilla, who owns the companies Mandrake and Ruido Callejero Music, is accused of conspiring to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine for Ryan James Wedding and Andrew Clark.
Video from Tuesday night and early Wednesday shows the moments law enforcement swarmed Bonilla's home along Island Estates Drive in Aventura, asking for his surrender.
In the footage, officers could be heard yelling for Bonilla to surrender over a loudspeaker in Spanish: "Nahim Jorge Bonilla, this is the FBI. We have an arrest warrant."
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The FBI would only confirm in a statement that "this was court ordered law enforcement activity in support of an FBI Los Angeles case."
In the indictment, Bonilla, who allegedly used aliases like "Dollar Sign" and "The One," is accused of taking 12 kilograms of cocaine from Wedding and Clark at an unknown date âfor the purpose of distributing it.â
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He allegedly paid for seven and was fronted the other five kilograms. Wedding and Clark later threatened to kill his mother if he did not pay his outstanding debt, court documents state.
Bonilla paid off two of the kilograms with cryptocurrency and in June sent a driver to Laval, QuĂ©bec, Canada âto tender approximately 20 kilograms of methamphetamine as payment for the three remaining kilograms of cocaine,â according to the indictment.
Wedding, Clark and 13 others face other charges including murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to export cocaine.
According to court documents, the drug trafficking operation took place in California counties including Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino, Miami-Dade County in South Florida, Mexico, Colombia, Canada and elsewhere.
The group is accused of routinely shipping hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia through Mexico and Southern California to Canada and other areas of the U.S.
The massive cocaine shipments were brought to Los Angeles and kept at stash houses before they were distributed using semi-trucks.
In March of 2024, the organization delivered around 293 kilograms of cocaine, and tried to deliver 375 kilograms the next month but authorities interrupted the delivery.
Several defendants were found to be in possession of around 1,800 kilograms of cocaine, about 1.8 metric tons, with a street value as high as $25.2 million, authorities said.
Authorities seized over a ton of cocaine during the investigation along with three firearms, dozens of rounds of ammunition, over $255,000 in cash and over $3.2 million in cryptocurrency.
Authorities said the leaders orchestrated multiple murders as part of the trafficking operation, including the November 2023 killing of two members of a Canadian family in retaliation for a stolen drug shipment.
Clark and Wedding, whose aliases include "El Jefe," "Giant," and "Public Enemy," also allegedly ordered the murder of another person in May over a drug debt, authorities said.
Clark, a Canadian citizen, was arrested on Oct. 8 by Mexican law enforcement. Wedding, who is also Canadian and was a snowboarder who competed for Canada in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, remains a fugitive, officials said.
The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to Wedding's arrest.
