LA gangster ‘Fat Boy’ helped Olympic snowboarder turned drug kingpin run billion-dollar trafficking ring: feds

A federal indictment accuses South Los Angeles gang member Roberto Gomez of helping former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding run a large drug-trafficking operation. Prosecutors say Gomez passed on sensitive law-enforcement information, potentially helping the network evade investigations and arrests.

Gomez, 51, is charged with six counts and is accused of working with Mexican cartel figures and transporting cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl. Wedding, 45, was arrested in Mexico City in January and faces US charges over an alleged operation shipping cocaine from Colombia to the US and Canada; prosecutors also accuse him of ordering or being responsible for several killings. A separate indictment names Edgar Aaron Vazquez Alvarado, who authorities say helped Wedding evade detection before he was fatally shot by Mexican police.