LA Gang Member 'Fat Boy' Charged for Leaking Intel to Ex-Olympian Drug Kingpin
Fugitive Roberto Gomez allegedly fed law-enforcement intelligence to former Olympic snowboarder Ryan James Wedding's billion-dollar drug ring. A federal six-count indictment was unsealed this week.
Fugitive LA Gang Member Indicted for Aiding Ex-Olympian's Drug Empire
A fugitive South Los Angeles gang member has been charged with feeding law-enforcement intelligence to a former Olympic snowboarder who allegedly ran a billion-dollar drug trafficking operation, the NY Post Metro reports.
Roberto Gomez, 51 — known by the street names "Fat Boy," "Fats," and "Rooster" — was hit with a six-count federal indictment this week for allegedly helping Ryan James Wedding operate his narcotics empire. Gomez is a member of LA's 38th Street gang and fled to Mexico in 2000 after being charged with robbery. He was also indicted in 2018 on drug-trafficking and money-laundering charges.
According to the Justice Department, Gomez cultivated relationships in Mexico with leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), and obtained sensitive intelligence from both Mexican and U.S. law enforcement agencies. That information — covering arrests, drug seizures, warrant executions, and criminal filings — was passed directly to co-conspirators, including Wedding.
Gomez also transported cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl and served as a narcotics supplier to multiple criminal organizations.
Wedding, 45, is a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who appeared on the FBI's most wanted list in 2025. He was first arrested in 2008 on a cocaine charge and served four years in federal prison. After his release, he allegedly fled to Mexico and built a transnational trafficking enterprise that shipped cocaine from Colombia to the United States and Canada, with the FBI placing a $15 million bounty on him. He was arrested in Mexico City in January and extradited to the U.S. to face charges.
Prosecutors allege Wedding also ordered a hit on a federal witness who was fatally shot in Colombia last year. Authorities additionally link him to the deaths of a couple in 2023 and a 39-year-old man in 2024.
A separate two-count indictment against Edgar Aaron Vazquez Alvarado was unsealed alongside Gomez's charges. Alvarado, described as the founder of the violent criminal organization El Cártel Nuevo Imperio, trafficked cocaine on Wedding's behalf from October 2024 to January 2026 and helped the accused kingpin evade U.S. law enforcement detection. Mexican police fatally shot Alvarado last week.
In a related development, a district judge in Mexico was arrested last week for allegedly accepting a $2 million bribe to free one of Wedding's associates. Authorities identified the judge as Luis Benítez Alcántara, 49, of Mexico City, who is accused of granting bond and ordering the release of Andrew Clark, 36, in exchange for the payment.
Source: NY Post Metro