Metro Vancouver Crime Stoppers says it has partnered with a national program to offer up to a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of Rabih Alkhalil, who escaped from a prison in Port Coquitlam, B.C. British, in 2022.

Crime Stoppers says it is partnering with the Be On The Look Out program to offer potential informants a “very significant reward” for information on the whereabouts of Alkhalil, who is wanted for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and illegal freedom.

The program’s website says Alkhalil is a “very dangerous criminal” who escaped from the North Fraser Remand Center in July 2022 while on trial for first-degree murder.

Alkhalil was convicted by a jury a month after his escape and remains at large, and Crime Stoppers says it is unclear whether he is still in Canada or abroad because he is “known to use fake identity documents and passports.”

Crime Stoppers claims that Alkhalil’s escape was facilitated by two “men posing as contractors” at the prison, and that he is also the subject of an Interpol red notice.

The Bolo program website says the money is available until December 3, 2024, and tipsters have up to a year to claim the reward if their information leads to Alkhalil’s arrest by the RCMP.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published October 29, 2024.