Reward temporarily increased for man who escaped from a BC prison

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

Crime Stoppers says it is working with Be On The Look Out to offer potential tipsters an “exceptionally large reward” for information on the whereabouts of Alkhalil, who is wanted for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and being illegally at large.

The program’s website said Alkhalil is a “very dangerous criminal” who escaped from the North Fraser Pretrial Center in July 2022 during his first-degree murder trial.

Alkhalil was found guilty by a jury a month after his escape and remains at large, while Crime Stoppers says it is unknown whether he is still in Canada or abroad because he has been “known to use false identification documents and passports.”

Crime Stoppers says Alkhalil was helped to escape by two “men posing as contractors” in prison and he is also the subject of an Interpol red notice.

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

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