Roberto Gomez, 51, likewise called “Fat Boy,” “Fats” and “Rooster,” was charged today in a six-count federal indictment implicating him of helping Wedding’s supposed criminal business.
Gomez, a member of Los Angeles’ infamous 38th Street gang, left to Mexico in 2000 after dealing with break-in charges. In 2018, he was individually arraigned on drug-trafficking and money-laundering charges.
“While in Mexico, Gomez fulfilled and interacted with leaders of foreign terrorist companies, consisting of the Sinaloa Cartel and Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), and cultivated relationships with people who had access to law-enforcement-sensitive details from Mexican and U.S. companies,” the Justice Department stated.
“Gomez acquired that info associated to law-enforcement operations, consisting of arrests, drug seizures, warrant executions, and the filing of criminal charges, and supplied this info to his co-conspirators, consisting of Wedding.”
District attorneys declare that Gomez transferred drug, methamphetamine and fentanyl while providing narcotics to numerous criminal companies.
Wedding event, 45, is a previous Canadian Olympic snowboarder who was put on the FBI’s most-wanted list in 2025. He was jailed in 2008 while trying to purchase drug and eventually invested 4 years in federal jail.
He later on left to Mexico, where he ended up being desired by the FBI in connection with a $15 million benefit connected to his supposed global drug-trafficking operation. Authorities state the network moved drug from Colombia into the United States and Canada. Wedding event was apprehended in Mexico City in January and extradited to the United States to deal with the charges.
The declared drug kingpin is likewise implicated of buying the murder of a federal witness who was fatally shot in Colombia in 2015. District attorneys even more think Wedding was connected to the killings of a couple in 2023 and a 39-year-old guy in 2024.
Unsealed this week was a two-count indictment versus Edgar Aaron Vazquez Alvarado.
Alvarado, who was fatally shot by Mexican authorities recently, established the violent criminal company El Cártel Nuevo Imperio, which supposedly trafficked drug for Wedding. District attorneys state that from October 2024 through January 2026, Alvarado assisted Wedding avert U.S. police.
Recently, a Mexican district judge was apprehended on claims that he accepted a $2 million kickback to protect the release of Wedding’s supposed right-hand male.
Authorities implicated Luis Benítez Alcántara, 49, of Mexico City, of taking the payment in exchange for giving Andrew Clark, 36, bond and buying his release.
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