Did Ryan Wedding turn himself in or was he apprehended by the FBI? Monday’s mañanera recapped

At her Monday greeting property conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke astir the apprehension past week of Ryan Wedding, an alleged cause brag accused of overseeing a immense cocaine pipeline and galore murders.

She doubled down connected her government’s assertion that Wedding, a Canadian citizen, was not captured successful a planned cognition with the United States, but alternatively turned himself successful astatine the U.S. Embassy successful Mexico City.

Former Olympic snowboarder, wanted successful US for trafficking, arrested successful Mexico

However, the main grounds she presented to enactment that mentation of events was fabricated, according to CBC News, a part of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Later connected Monday, Wedding — who is present successful U.S. custody — pleaded not blameworthy to 2 transgression indictments, from abstracted national expansive juries successful California successful 2024 and 2025, CBC News reported.

Contradicting Sheinbaum, the suspect’s lawyer, Anthony Colombo, told reporters connected Monday that his lawsuit “didn’t surrender.”

“He was apprehended. He was arrested. And truthful immoderate rotation that the authorities of Mexico is putting connected this that helium surrendered is inaccurate. And I deliberation that if there’s anyone successful a presumption to cognize however his apprehension and apprehension went down it’s his counsel,” helium said.

“So those reports of what happened, that helium surrendered, are wholly inaccurate,” Colombo said.

“… Look, the Trump medication with the apprehension of [Nicolás] Maduro has made wide that we’re successful a bold caller epoch with respect to planetary relations. So 1 tin recognize wherefore that connection mightiness person been enactment out, due to the fact that if the U.S. authorities is unilaterally going into a sovereign state and apprehending someone, you tin recognize the interest that that sovereign entity mightiness have. But helium was apprehended,” the lawyer said.

Wedding’s adjacent tribunal quality volition beryllium connected Mar. 24, CBC News reported.

Sheinbaum: Ryan Wedding turned himself successful astatine the US Embassy 

A newsman asked Sheinbaum astir the circumstances of the apprehension of Wedding, who had reportedly been surviving successful Mexico for implicit a decennary and was allegedly protected by the Sinaloa Cartel.

Mexican authorities said connected Friday that Wedding, a 44-year-old erstwhile Olympic snowboarder, turned himself successful astatine the U.S. Embassy successful Mexico City past Thursday, but U.S. authorities and immoderate media reports contradicted that information.

In an nonfiction headlined “Inside the Dramatic Arrest of an Olympic Snowboarder Turned America’s Most Wanted,” Vanity Fair wrote that “the FBI worked with Mexican instrumentality enforcement officials who, connected Thursday, successful the mediate of the night, apprehended Wedding.”

“After an aggravated negotiation, Wedding was aboriginal taken into U.S. custody by the FBI Hostage Rescue Team [HRT], the aforesaid squad that captured Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela conscionable weeks before,” the study stated.

Vanity Fair quoted FBI Director Kash Patel arsenic saying that, “This was a complex, high-stakes cognition with zero borderline for error. I was connected the crushed with our squad successful Mexico and witnessed bonzer teamwork, precision and spot betwixt our agents and partners successful Mexico.”

On Monday morning, Sheinbaum gave a precise antithetic relationship of Wedding’s arrest.

🚨La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum aclaró que Ryan Wedding se presentó voluntariamente ante la Embajada de EEUU el jueves pasado.

Señaló que la prueba es la publicación hecha por el propio Wedding y subrayó que nary hubo operativos conjuntos en México. pic.twitter.com/snvlnKc2jE

— Azucena Uresti (@azucenau) January 26, 2026

“This idiosyncratic of Canadian root presented himself to the Embassy, turned himself successful astatine the Embassy,” she said, adding that Wedding reasoned that doing truthful was a amended enactment than remaining a fugitive.

The suspect, who Patel described arsenic a “modern-day Pablo Escobar” and a “modern-day El Chapo,” was connected the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” database earlier helium was taken into custody. Patel shared Vanity Fair’s nonfiction connected societal media and wrote supra it that “our FBI HRT teams executed with precision, discipline, and full professionalism alongside our Mexican partners to bring Ryan James Wedding backmost to look justice.”

For her part, U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi wrote connected societal media connected Friday greeting that astatine her “direction, Department of Justice agents @FBI person apprehended yet different subordinate of the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted List: Ryan Wedding, the onetime Olympian snowboarder-turned alleged convulsive cocaine kingpin.”

“Wedding was flown to the United States wherever helium volition look justice. This is simply a nonstop effect of President Trump’s law-and-order leadership. Under @POTUS, criminals person nary harmless harbor. Director Patel has worked tirelessly to bring fugitives to justice. We are grateful to our unthinkable Ambassador Ron Johnson and the Mexican authorities for assisting america successful this case,” she wrote. 

Sheinbaum acknowledged that Patel was successful Mexico erstwhile the apprehension occurred, but told reporters that helium was present for information meetings alternatively than the execution of an cognition to seizure Wedding.

She noted that Patel spoke astir the apprehension of the fishy successful a “bilateral operation,” earlier stressing that Security Minister Omar García Harfuch “immediately denied” that it was the case.

“And past the United States ambassador himself denies it,” added Sheinbaum, referring to a connection issued by Ron Johnson that refers to “the surrender of Ryan Wedding.”

“This idiosyncratic turned himself successful astatine the Embassy,” she stressed.

Sheinbaum subsequently said that the “best evidence” successful enactment of Wedding having turned himself successful astatine the U.S. Embassy came from the fishy himself.

She was referring to a station connected Instagram by the relationship “bossryanw” that includes a photograph that purports to amusement Wedding lasting extracurricular the U.S. Embassy successful Mexico City anterior to turning himself in.

However, CBC News reported connected Monday that it had determined that “the representation was generated utilizing artificial intelligence.”

The Canadian quality enactment besides reported that the fake representation “was posted to an Instagram relationship that falsely purported to beryllium to Wedding’s ‘representative.'”

CBC News reported past week that a reappraisal of the relationship recovered “multiple reddish flags suggesting an imposter has been posting images created utilizing AI.”

The latest (and present sole) station to the relationship — astir of which Sheinbaum interpreted into Spanish astatine her mañanera — reads: “To the media and my followers: After seeking guarantees for a just process, I person decided to voluntarily crook myself successful to the authorities. I convey my wife, @myriamcastt, for being my driving force, and @johnbilonog, who volition beryllium successful complaint of my legacy. Thank you for your messages this week; they gave maine large comfortableness successful taking this step. I americium afloat assured that the information volition travel to airy and acceptable maine free.”

Beneath that connection successful bold font was the following: “This connection is being posted by a typical – the discourse of the photograph is that Mr. Wedding walked to the United States Embassy successful Mexico City connected his ain 2 feet.”

Sheinbaum said that the circumstances of Wedding’s apprehension indispensable beryllium made “very clear” due to the fact that “some” media commentators “love to spell astir saying the opposite.”

But “there are nary associated operations successful Mexico,” emphasized the president, a staunch defender of Mexican sovereignty.

“In different words, the U.S. agents [in Mexico], from the FBI oregon immoderate different agency, cognize precise intelligibly their limitations, which are established by the [Mexican] Constitution and by the National Security Law,” she said.

“What exists is coordination regarding accusation from some sides, but determination are nary associated operations successful Mexico. We wouldn’t let that, we bash not hold with it. I person stated this personally to President Trump connected respective occasions,” Sheinbaum said.

Wedding’s apprehension came a week aft The New York Times reported that the United States was “intensifying pressure” connected Mexico “to let U.S. subject forces to behaviour associated operations to dismantle fentanyl labs wrong the country.”

It came 2 days aft the Mexican authorities sent 37 cartel figures to the U.S., and 5 days aft Mexican and U.S. authorities announced the apprehension successful Pachuca, Hidalgo, of different “FBI 10 astir wanted fugitive,” Alejandro Rosales Castillo, who is accused of murdering a pistillate successful North Carolina successful 2016.

Since the instrumentality of Donald Trump to the White House conscionable implicit a twelvemonth ago, Mexico has been nether accrued unit from the United States to bash much to combat cause cartels and the narcotics they postulation to the U.S.

That unit has lone intensified successful caller weeks, pursuing the United States’ subject cognition successful Venezuela and Trump’s assertion that the U.S. would imminently commencement “hitting” cartels connected land.