COQUITLAM RCMP on Tuesday released video surveillance photos of the two suspects that helped Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil escape from North Fraser Pretrial Jail on July 21.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact Coquitlam RCMP’s Major Crime Unit.
Suspect 1 is described as:
* White male
* Last seen wearing: white hard hat, a face mask, black shirt with a high visibility vest, black pants, black gloves, and black boots.
Suspect 2 is described as:
* White male
* Last seen wearing: black ball cap, black shirt, black pants, black boots, black gloves, a face mask, and glasses.
On July 21, at 7:30 p.m., Coquitlam RCMP were advised by the staff of North Fraser Pre-Trial Center that Alkhalil had escaped from lawful custody.
Alkhalil was confirmed to have left in a white Econoline van with two others who were posing or employed as contractors. The van left North Fraser Pre-trial at approximately 6:48 p.m., and travelled westbound on Kingsway Avenue.
Police said they have spent countless hours canvassing for video and reviewing all CCTV footage that has been obtained.
Investigators have now established the route that the escape vehicle — a white Ford Econoline van — took from North Fraser Pretrial Jail to the abandoned location.
The Coquitlam RCMP is working closely with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of BC (CFSEU), Vancouver Police Department, Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA), and international law enforcement agencies on this active, priority search for Alkhalil and the suspects that assisted in his escape, said Constable Deanna Law, Coquitlam RCMP Media Relations Officer.
If you have any information about the two men who helped Alkhalil escape, you are requested to call Coquitlam RCMP at 604-945-1550 and ask for the Major Crime Unit (File #2022-18693).
If you see the suspects, call 911 immediately.
If you wish to remain anonymous and possibly collect a reward, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or https://solvecrime.ca/
ALKHALIL and Hells Angel Larry Ronald Amero have been on trial in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver since June 2021 in relation to the murder of Sandip “Dip” Duhre at Downtown Vancouver’s Sheraton Wall Centre on January 17, 2012.
Alkhalil, who was extradited from Greece in 2015, was serving a life term for murder for his role in the 2012 murder of Johnny Raposo in Toronto’s Sicilian Sidewalk Café on College Street. His 2017 trial heard that Raposo was killed for a 200 kg shipment of cocaine from Mexico.
Alkhalil has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder of Duhre, while Amero has pleaded not guilty to conspiring with others to murder Duhre.
Both Alkhalil and Amero have also pleaded not guilty to conspiring to murder Sukhveer (Sukh) Dhak.
Dhak, 27, was gunned down along with his bodyguard, Thomas Mantel, 30, in the lobby of the Executive Hotel and Conference Center in the 4200-block of Lougheed Highway in Burnaby on November 26, 2012.
(Back then, the gangland conflict was mainly between the United Nations gang and all the remnants and allies of the Dhak-Duhre side of things — and the so-called Wolf Pack: certain Hells Angels like Larry Amero and their allies and associates, the Independent Soldiers and the people that they brought to the equation and the Red Scorpions.)
Red Scorpion leader Jonathan Bacon was gunned down in Kelowna on August 14, 2011, when Amero was also seriously injured. Alkhalil and Amero have been accused of seeking revenge.
Three of Alkhalil’s brothers have been killed in gangland conflicts. Nabil Alkhalil, 42, was shot dead in a suburb of Mexico City in 2018. He had left B.C. for Mexico in 2013 after he was threatened with deportation for cocaine trafficking.
Khalil Alkhalil, 19, was shot to dead in Surrey in 2001 during a conflict over a $200 drug debt; and Mahmoud Alkhalil, 19, was killed in a gangland shoot-out in the Loft Six nightclub in Vancouver’s Gastown in 2003.
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