Ryan Wedding Pleads Not Guilty to Leading Billion-Dollar Drug Ring and Multiple Murders

Ryan Wedding pleaded not guilty in a California court to charges of leading a billion-dollar cocaine trafficking enterprise and orchestrating multiple murders.Claudia Sheinbaum sparked controversy after claiming Wedding surrendered voluntarily using an artificial intelligence-generated image despite his apprehension in Mexico by federal agents.Prosecutors allege the organization moved 60 metric tons of cocaine across North America and generated over $1B in annual proceeds, carrying a mandatory life sentence if convicted.