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In Vancouver, authorities unveil Canada’s Most Wanted Criminal—alongside 24 of the country’s most dangerous fugitives. With record-breaking rewards offered for information leading to arrests, international manhunts heat up. From elite fugitive squads to Interpol and the U.S. Marshals, global forces converge in a relentless pursuit of justice. This episode dives into some of the most unexpected takedowns of individuals once named Canada’s Most Wanted.
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00:14As soon as he stepped out, he was ambushed by two individuals, and he was shot dead.
00:20I messaged Mr. Fuentes-Gramajo.
00:22There are millions of eyes looking for you.
00:24We will find you.
00:25Now, Tzermel was at the top of Canada's Most Wanted list, suspected of leading the Blood Family Mafia street gang even while on the run.
00:37Let's call it the way it is. That's torture, and I was shocked. I've never seen that in Quebec.
00:44Ravi Akhalil has been convicted twice for murder and has ties to organized crime.
00:49If you know where Ravi Akhalil is, we don't need your name.
00:55We don't need your location. We just need to find him.
00:59Canada currently has 181 active red notices for individuals wanted in Canada that are believed to be abroad.
01:09Every one of us, every police officer serving in this room, every member of the public, have a part to play in locating these wanted fugitives.
01:16Good evening, and welcome to this special edition of Crime Beat. I'm Anthony Robart.
01:25Each year, police release their top 25 list of those most wanted for serious crimes.
01:31The Be on the Lookout program, or BOLO, offers rewards up to $250,000 for information leading to an arrest.
01:39So, since 2018, this effort has led to the capture of 45 suspects.
01:45Tonight, we detail how police tracked, located, and ultimately brought these suspected criminals to justice.
01:53Here now is Manhunt.
01:58In the shadows of Vancouver's North Shore mountains, Canada's most wanted are about to step into the light.
02:07To make our new top 25 more real than ever before, we decided to invite all our top 25 suspects to this announcement.
02:25We're trying to make this as real as possible.
02:27Make no mistake.
02:29These dangerous individuals are somewhere among us.
02:32The physical traits of each model behind me matches the fugitive that he or she is portraying.
02:39The models behind the masks are police officers from across Canada, asking you to be on the lookout.
02:47Look at their faces.
02:50Remember their faces.
02:52Right now, all our top five suspects have a reward of up to $100,000 for any information leading to the arrest.
03:00Including their new number one.
03:03You don't make it to number one of Bolo's top 25 for stealing a car.
03:08You're at the top of this list because we believe you pose a serious threat to any person in any place where you may be.
03:16Brian Fuentes-Gramajo fits that bill.
03:19In this case, it's first degree murder.
03:20On the surface, we're talking about the death of a young man who was shot and killed at a parking lot of a Toronto mall on July 17th of this year.
03:31It was 6.13 in the morning.
03:33So the mall was closed at the time.
03:35The call came in for a shooting at Yorkdale Mall, which is a big, prominent mall in Toronto, right off the 401.
03:43So the call came in.
03:49I was at home.
03:50The call came in for a shooting homicide.
03:53And I remember making my way to the scene here at the mall.
03:56When I pulled up, I could see the rideshare vehicle just outside entrance number three over here.
04:03It was 6.13 a.m. when police were called to the north parking lot of Yorkdale Shopping Centre for a shooting.
04:10When first responders arrived, they found a man in his 20s lying on the sidewalk next to this blue Honda Civic suffering from gunshot wounds.
04:18The deceased at that time was exiting a ride-sharing company vehicle.
04:24And as soon as he stepped out, he was ambushed by two individuals.
04:29And he was shot dead and he was pronounced deceased right at the scene.
04:32Police uncover the attack was caught on multiple cameras.
04:38Picture this.
04:39There are people starting out their day going to work, people pulling into the parking lot, commuters going about their business.
04:47All of a sudden, two guys jump out of a motor vehicle and attack someone and take their life.
04:56It's pretty brazen.
04:58It's loud.
04:58It's fast.
05:00And people scatter.
05:02The rideshare driver tells police it started as a typical drop-off.
05:08At this point in time, the investigation is in its early stage.
05:13What I can tell you is that it is not a random shooting.
05:18What we know about the victim is that he's 28 years of age.
05:20He went by Little Bentley.
05:22He was a rapper.
05:24He's from the Montreal area.
05:25He does have ties to Toronto.
05:27His name is Kashif Jamal Bentley Jean.
05:30As vehicles are towed for forensics, police canvass the community.
05:36Video tracking is one of our investigative techniques where we literally track a car.
05:44They're trying to follow that vehicle, in this case, pre and post-homicide.
05:51Police uncover a white Dodge Ram had shown up minutes before the crime.
05:57As the rideshare pulled up, there was already another motor vehicle in place prior.
06:03What I would refer to as staged.
06:06And as he was exiting, there were at least in excess of 20 shots fired.
06:10It's a miracle that nobody else got hit.
06:13The rideshare driver.
06:14And then these two guys, you know, run back to that staged car and take off like a bat out of hell.
06:22To multiple highway escape routes, which run right off the parking lot.
06:27We find that motor vehicle pretty quick.
06:30It was a stolen vehicle.
06:32I can't get into the specifics of it.
06:34But I can tell you that it was tracked ultimately and located in the city of Toronto.
06:40So a part of our investigation was to also review video from the theft of that motor vehicle location.
06:47And we disseminated those images through local police networks within Ontario and Quebec.
06:52And that's when we get our first break.
06:54One of the officers from Quebec was able to identify one of the individuals, one of the shooters.
07:00They identify 20-year-old Bradley Lusate Nicholas.
07:05Trace evidence gathered by forensics helped them identify a second alleged shooter.
07:1223-year-old Brian Fuentes-Gramajo.
07:16When we watched our video surveillance, what we were able to see was that the suspect vehicle was set up parallel.
07:22And two offenders exited the car, which we're alleging is Brian Emanuel Fuentes and Bradley Lusate Nicholas.
07:30And they ran over and they shot Kashif Jamal Bentley Jean and he dropped in his tracks.
07:36Then they took off, back to the car on foot, back to the motor vehicle on foot.
07:41And then they exited onto Yorkdale Road.
07:46Analysis of ride share data leads them to a third suspect.
07:51So Jimmy Prudent at the time was 28 years of age.
07:55And our information leads us to believe that he's a setup guy.
07:59All I can tell you is that I believe I know who was involved.
08:03The why is a question that I may never know.
08:10Police turn the spotlight to Montreal, where all three suspects and the victim, Kashif Jamal Bentley Jean, are from.
08:20La Presse investigative journalist and crime reporter Mesa Farah has been following the case.
08:26In the last six years, there has been a lot of shootings and murders related to all kinds of different conflicts, you know, between gangs.
08:38For me, it's kind of a classic gang-related murder in the sense that there was a lot of tensions prior to that between gangs.
08:49So Mr. Fuentes Garmejo is wanted for first-degree murder right now.
08:56He is a resident of Montreal.
08:58He does have ties to a gang out in Montreal.
09:01And also this gang is associated to the Vancouver Lower Mainland as well.
09:06The gang is called Zone 43 from Northern Montreal.
09:14Kashif Bentley Jean was a very well-known gang member.
09:19Based in Montreal, affiliated before with Rolling 90s, and then, who then created his own clique called A1.
09:30He was also affiliated with Zone 43, which is a gang from Montreal North.
09:38So he was known also as Lil Bentley.
09:41Bentley was allegedly involved in the murder of Cedric Belisar, a member of the Zone 43 gang.
09:49We do know from sources, both police and criminal sources, that the day after Cedric Belisar's death, there was a contract put on Lil Bentley's head.
10:04So that's why, allegedly, both murders could be related.
10:09A man has been arrested, and police are looking for two others in a fatal shooting at Yorkdale Mall last month.
10:15Toronto police arrested 20-year-old Bradley Nicholas of Montreal on Monday, charging him with first-degree murder.
10:21Two other men you see here, Brian Emanuel Fuentes Gramaggio and Jimmy Prudent, remain at large and are wanted on the same charge.
10:30The charges are connected to the shooting death of Kashif Jamal Bentley Jean in the mall's parking lot on July 17th.
10:37Police warn the two outstanding suspects are considered armed and dangerous.
10:41Brian is 5'6", he's 144 pounds. Visually, he will stand out. He has a scar above the left eyebrow.
10:51He has a tattoo on his left temple. He has a tattoo under his right eye. He's got tattoos on both sides of his neck, back and arms.
11:01We believe he's within Montreal and Toronto. We have no indications to suggest that he's left Canada right now, you know, with our partners with the U.S. So he's around.
11:09It's extremely important to get him off the streets.
11:12So whether you're in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, or anywhere else in this country or beyond, our ask is simple.
11:20Be on the lookout. And if you know something, if you see something, say something.
11:26My message to Mr. Fuentes Gramaggio and all the fugitives on this list, your world got a lot smaller.
11:31There are millions of eyes looking for you. We will find you.
11:34Call your lawyer and turn yourself in.
11:36Welcome back to Crime Beat.
11:51When the nation's most wanted are believed by police to have fled the country, the hunt immediately goes global, forcing authorities to rely on international forces and tools like the Interpol Red Notice.
12:04Case in points, Quebec's Dave Pick-Termel, Canada's number one, alleged to be hiding and running his operation from Europe.
12:14Here now is Mike Armstrong with Manhunt.
12:19Celi Mesapico on the outskirts of Rome, an ancient town known for its stone walls and its vacation rentals and most recently one very wanted guest.
12:34Well, there have been reports and rumours for months that Dave Pick-Termel maybe in Europe, possibly Portugal, as it turns out his most recent and last hiding spot was in the suburbs of Rome.
12:47Now, Termel was at the top of Canada's most wanted list, suspected of leading the Blood Family Mafia street gang even while on the run.
12:57Wherever he is, he seems to be pulling the strings on a lot of things happening in our communities.
13:04The Blood Family Mafia is a street gang, according to police, led by a Dave Pick-Termel.
13:12His Facebook profile may say he studied at Harvard.
13:16He did not.
13:17Termel instead, according to police, leads a network of dealers and is refusing to give the Hells Angels a cut.
13:25The BFM gang has been at war with the Hells Angels for more than a year in a conflict over drugs.
13:33Traffickers normally pay a 10% tax to the Hells to sell on their territory.
13:38The BFM refused and fought back.
13:41Failure to pay tends to mean conflict.
13:46Félix Seguet is one of Quebec's top crime reporters.
13:49A large percentage of the murders that occurred in Montreal, in the surroundings, in all the province,
13:58are somehow related to the payment or the absence of payment of this tax.
14:05To force his point, police say Termel's men have resorted to a level of violence inspired by Mexican drug cartels.
14:13Well, it's shocking for police officers.
14:27The criminal world means violence, inevitably.
14:29There was a certain level of violence within their group, which they themselves managed.
14:33But now, when it's reached the point where there are attempted murders, mutilations, kidnappings,
14:39it takes the game up a notch.
14:41And that's why there's a lot of police pressure right now.
14:44It was here in February, in the village of St. Malachie,
14:48members of the independent gang, the Blood Family Mafia,
14:51spent days inflicting pain on their enemies.
14:54They also filmed and shared parts of it.
14:57They want to show their strength with it.
15:25It lets them scare people.
15:27Instead of my enemy going after me, he's so scared that he won't even do battle.
15:32A war not fought is a war you've won.
15:37Everything changed with the February kidnappings.
15:40There was too much media attention and police went after the independent gangs.
15:45The suspects that we're looking for that are not in Quebec,
15:48we're working with different authorities.
15:50I'm not going to go into too much detail.
15:5233 people linked to the Blood Family Mafia were arrested,
15:57rounded up basically in a weekend.
16:00So Mel is believed to be in Europe,
16:02possibly moving between Portugal and Spain,
16:04but still directing henchmen.
16:06Ronny says if a gang's boss is in prison or in exile or on the moon,
16:16if he's not dead, he's still active.
16:21As soon as that was clear for the Quebec police
16:25that Dave Turmel was waging this war from abroad,
16:29they asked Interpol to help them catch him.
16:33Interpol put out a red notice for Turmel,
16:38and Quebec's new fugitive apprehension unit has been tracking him.
16:41We had information could be in so many countries,
16:44probably about 10.
16:45So in Europe, in Africa, in South America.
16:49So there was tips for about many countries.
16:53They were close to catching him in Portugal.
16:55When Dave Turmel was in Portugal,
16:59he was with one of his friends.
17:02His name is Rubens Dennis.
17:05And the Portuguese police finally caught Mr. Dennis in a hotel in Portugal,
17:13and Dave Turmel was at the same place at the same time.
17:21We learned that if he was there eight minutes before,
17:28he would have been caught with Mr. Dennis.
17:32Police believe he then went on the move in Europe.
17:35People, they know that they are number one,
17:37so they have to change their habits.
17:39They have to move from a safe place to another,
17:43and that's what we want because they will commit error.
17:46When we feel that we are approaching him,
17:49then all people are putting more effort to locate the fugitive,
17:54and that's what happened.
17:56Tracking him down in Italy.
17:58We have information that he was in Italy.
18:01We were able to locate the precise address,
18:05and then we ask Italian servitees to go forward to do the check.
18:11Italian police chose to strike at night time
18:14to have the benefit of the surprise effect
18:16that could help them arrest him really quick.
18:20Turmel was found in a small short-term rental apartment
18:23on the outskirts of Rome.
18:25Police say he tried to barricade himself inside when they arrived.
18:28When he surrendered, they say he gave them identification
18:31with a fake name.
18:32But what we learned is he was living on five different identities.
18:39He was driving a Mercedes.
18:43He has a girlfriend, German girlfriend,
18:47who was living with him.
18:49Italian state police shared this photo Friday.
18:51Two officers standing in front of a table
18:53with several items, including a Canadian passport
18:56and a Quebec driver's license.
18:58Police say in capturing the 29-year-old,
19:01they also seized drugs, several SIM cards,
19:04and some sort of ledger.
19:05Turmel is now being held in a prison closer to downtown,
19:09less than a kilometer from the Vatican.
19:11Police were offering a reward of up to $250,000
19:15for information leading to Turmel's arrest.
19:18That may be what happened.
19:20We can surely say that the reward was so attractive
19:24that it helps someone who was really close
19:31to the whereabouts of Turmel to commit treason.
19:37Because I know that for a fact,
19:41that the reward has been totally or partially paid
19:46to a police informant.
19:49In addition to their global strategy
19:51to diminish urban violence in Montreal,
19:54police believe the capture of Turmel
19:56has helped reduce the level of violent crime in the city.
20:00Turmel now awaits extradition home to Canada.
20:16Welcome back to Crime Beat.
20:18Since 2018, the majority of the top most wanted
20:22have been captured, both domestically and abroad.
20:26This includes Rabi Alkhalil,
20:28who was convicted of murder in absentia,
20:30setting off a worldwide search.
20:33Remarkably, this was not the first time he had been caught
20:35and returned to justice after fleeing the country.
20:41Here now is Jules Knox with Manhunt.
20:46Take a good look at this face.
20:50Information leading to his arrest
20:52could net you up to a quarter million dollars.
20:56If you know where Rabi Alkhalil is,
21:00we don't need your name.
21:02We don't need your location.
21:04We just need to find him.
21:06Rabi Alkhalil has been convicted twice for murder
21:09and has ties to organized crime.
21:11In July, Alkhalil escaped from the North Fraser Pretrial Center
21:15in Port Coquitlam with the help of two others posing as contractors.
21:18This reward will be paid if the information provided
21:22led to the arrest of Mr. Alkhalil, period.
21:26There are no other conditions.
21:30On the evening of January 17, 2012,
21:34the temperature in Vancouver dipped below freezing.
21:37But deep in the heart of downtown,
21:41the Sheraton Wall Centre was buzzing with energy.
21:45Dip Durie had gone in with a friend,
21:47sat at this table by the window.
21:51His friend, he went out for a smoke.
21:53The shooter arrives nearby,
21:56comes in in disguise through those,
21:59the revolving glass doors into the lobby.
22:01In the lobby, there's a number of people milling about.
22:06And the shooter literally walked up to the table
22:09when Durie was there by himself after ordering food
22:13and shot him point-blank range.
22:18Police swarmed the hotel after the 8.45 p.m. shooting.
22:23Ironically, 36-year-old Sandeep Dip Durie
22:26was sitting in public at a window seat
22:29in the Top Flight Hotel restaurant,
22:31out on bail for fleeing from police.
22:34But apparently, he couldn't flee from a rival gang.
22:41The whole Durie family was very high profile here.
22:44You know, we not only knew that it was gang-related,
22:47we had a good sense of who would have been behind it.
22:51Across the country, in Toronto,
22:54College Street West is the cornerstone of Little Italy.
22:57The neighbourhood is home to the city's oldest gelateria,
23:02the Sicilian Sidewalk Café.
23:06On June 18, 2012,
23:09five months after the Vancouver shooting,
23:12EuroCup fans packed onto its patio
23:15for the game between Italy and Ireland.
23:20At halftime, Italy was leading 1-0.
23:23An unknown person enters the patio by himself
23:27and seats at a table by himself.
23:30He's dressed in a construction-style outfit,
23:32orders a beverage from the staff.
23:35While the staff are in the process of getting that order for him,
23:40he then gets up and engages our victim
23:44and shoots him point-blank multiple times
23:46before fleeing the area on foot.
23:48What I can confirm is two victims right now.
23:51Our homicide squad is on scene.
23:53However, they've just arrived as well.
23:55So I don't have anything further on the victims.
24:00Johnny Raposo was enjoying a drink in the cafe
24:04when a trigger man came up
24:06and assassinated him, essentially.
24:09He was a family man.
24:10He had a child and had another one on the way.
24:13No!
24:14No!
24:19Police say Raposo, also known as Little Johnny
24:22and Johnny Maserati, was targeted.
24:24The gunman, who was dressed as a construction worker
24:26wearing a white dust mask,
24:28fired shots point-blank at Raposo's head.
24:32Another man, who was also injured in the shooting,
24:34is expected to survive.
24:36This is a very extensive investigation
24:38that we're conducting.
24:39This is the very, very beginning of that investigation.
24:41There is a lot of legwork still to do.
24:44During the investigation,
24:46police intercepted hundreds of messages
24:49that wove a web of betrayal.
24:51And they started taking a closer look
24:54at some of the victims' business associates.
24:57Robbie Al-Khalil, his name came up
25:00as someone who was of interest.
25:03There was evidence that Johnny Raposo
25:05had been part of this criminal organization
25:07that Al-Khalil was also a part of
25:09that was importing-exporting cocaine.
25:12And that for some reason,
25:13they had a falling out with him.
25:14And they decided to take him out.
25:17Before Canadian officers were able to catch Robbie Al-Khalil,
25:21the suspected killer left the country.
25:24It was quite some time later,
25:26he turned up in Greece,
25:27was found to have a false passport,
25:29and was taken into custody by Greek authorities.
25:32Upon Robbie Al-Khalil's return to Canada,
25:37he first faced court in Toronto
25:39for the murder of John Raposo.
25:42It all apparently began over a grudge and money.
25:45Three of the men found guilty,
25:47Nicola Nero, Martino Caputo,
25:49and Robbie Al-Khalil,
25:50were allegedly involved in cocaine trafficking
25:52and hired a hitman
25:53to kill 35-year-old John Raposo.
25:56The jury then delivered their verdict,
25:57all guilty of first-degree murder
25:59and conspiracy to commit murder.
26:02A decade after the killing,
26:05Robbie Al-Khalil then faced trial
26:07for Sundep Durie's murder
26:09at the Sheraton Wall Centre.
26:12Al-Khalil was accused of hiring a hitman
26:14to gun down his rival.
26:17On the evening of July 21st, 2022,
26:21instead of being in a high-security penitentiary,
26:25Robbie Al-Khalil was held at a facility
26:27in Port Coquitlam because he was on trial.
26:31My phone starts blowing up
26:32and I see Al-Khalil's escaped, you know.
26:35It was still early evening.
26:36It had happened within an hour
26:38of getting these messages
26:39and I'm like, oh my God, oh my God.
26:41We see on the surveillance video
26:44two people posing as contractors.
26:46They wore masks over their faces
26:48and these guys used a plasma torch
26:51to cut through from part of the jail
26:53into the yard
26:54so he could go into the area
26:55that they were in.
26:56He got this vest on.
26:58You see them getting into a white van.
27:00They take off.
27:02The van was later abandoned.
27:05Al-Khalil's connections range
27:08from across Canada
27:09to the United States,
27:11Europe and Asia.
27:12A Canada-wide arrest warrant
27:15and an Interpol red notice
27:17are being prepared.
27:18Three years later,
27:20Al-Khalil was found to be hiding
27:22in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar.
27:26BC's elite gang unit, CFSEU,
27:29finally confirming the capture
27:31of fugitive killer, Rabi Al-Khalil.
27:34Al-Khalil was taken down
27:35by a police doc in Qatar, September 5th.
27:38CFSEU says it's working with Interpol
27:41and international partners
27:43to have Al-Khalil return to Canadian soil,
27:46but no timeline has been set.
27:48We are working with them,
27:50Interpol, as well as
27:51our international partner
27:52for the next steps,
27:54which is getting the paperwork
27:55to Qatar, to their officials
27:57and the process of bringing him
27:59back to Canada.
28:00Qatar is fugitive heaven.
28:03Canada has no extradition treaty
28:06with Qatar.
28:07The alternative is diplomatic,
28:10multi-year chats
28:11or an arrangement,
28:14which is let's make a deal.
28:16We have someone you want,
28:18you have someone we want
28:19and they trade.
28:30Welcome back to Crime Beat.
28:31The BOLO reward program
28:33is a key weapon
28:35in the hunt for Canada's most wanted.
28:37By widely posting images
28:39and details of alleged crimes,
28:41the program makes it very difficult
28:43for those suspects
28:44to hide from the public eye.
28:45In the case of Jonathan Ouellette-Jean Dran,
28:48that international exposure,
28:49according to police,
28:51was one of the reasons
28:52why he turned himself in.
28:55Here again is Jules Knox
28:58with Manhunt.
29:00It all started here
29:05on May 19, 2022
29:07in Saskatoon.
29:10Nestled among the green,
29:11tree-lined streets
29:12is a condo complex
29:14at 710 Melrose Avenue.
29:18911, where's your emergency?
29:21At 1037
29:22at 710 Melrose Avenue.
29:25On the third floor,
29:26a complainant just heard
29:27something shooting off,
29:28possibly a BB gun.
29:29Then a male went running.
29:31Our complainant's unable
29:32to get a good description
29:33of the male just south front of the building.
29:3510-4.
29:37The code was
29:37unknown call for service complaint.
29:40Yeah, control,
29:41this male is on the ground here,
29:43bleeding.
29:44We're just going to see
29:44whether he's got any pulse,
29:46but we need MD or her now.
29:48So I was the second person on scene
29:50just behind the first patrol.
29:52So I found the victim
29:53in the fetal position
29:54just west of the main entrance
29:56in the parking lot.
29:58We didn't know who he was,
29:58didn't know what was going on.
29:59There was no one else really on scene.
30:01I just made sure
30:02there was no suspects
30:03in the area
30:04that may have firearms.
30:06Walked up to him,
30:06started to announce police
30:07just to try and get
30:08like a verbal response.
30:09He was unresponsive.
30:10As I started doing
30:11those compressions,
30:12I noticed like blood
30:13was coming out of his abdomen
30:15and I assessed his abdomen
30:17and saw multiple gunshot wounds,
30:19like some along his belt line,
30:20one by his belly button
30:21and that was the one
30:22that was like every time
30:24I did a compression
30:24would spray blood out.
30:26His eyes were open.
30:27He was unresponsive.
30:28He wasn't warm to the touch.
30:30I could see he had duct tape
30:32on his face,
30:33like it was adhered
30:34to one side of his face,
30:35but it had been like pried open
30:36but left stuck
30:37to the side of his mouth.
30:38So I kind of presumed
30:39it was like taped
30:40on his, across his mouth
30:42and then on his wrist,
30:43he had white like zip ties.
30:45So like right then and there,
30:47I radioed that
30:48like this is a murder.
30:49Our tactical support unit
30:51was working at the time
30:53so members went in with patrol
30:55to help clear the scene.
30:57As they arrived
30:58and they now have a body
30:59down in the parking lot,
31:01they can tell quite quickly
31:02that it's gunshot wounds
31:03so they know they're dealing
31:03with a firearm.
31:05They go into the building
31:06and they're able to literally
31:07follow a blood trail
31:08and blood smears
31:09through the apartment building.
31:11Some blood in the hallway
31:13led them to one apartment
31:14and then they also noticed
31:16blood leading to another apartment
31:17that they had to verify
31:18and make sure
31:19that wasn't our crime scene.
31:22So ultimately,
31:22they did determine
31:23what our crime scene was.
31:25It was an empty apartment.
31:27There was definite signs
31:28of a struggle.
31:29There was bullet holes
31:31throughout the apartment.
31:32There was blood in the apartment.
31:34Sure was knocked over.
31:36They did locate some zip ties
31:38and some duct tape
31:40in the apartment as well,
31:42which led us to believe
31:43that this was possibly
31:45more than just a random shooting.
31:47The victim was identified
31:49positively by our forensic analysts.
31:52They were able to determine
31:53his identification
31:54through fingerprints.
31:55The man found murdered
31:56in the parking lot
31:58of a Saskatoon condo complex
31:59was identified as 29-year-old
32:02Brandon Baxendall.
32:04I was definitely in shock.
32:08I didn't really believe it.
32:10He was always quiet
32:12and taking in everything
32:13around him.
32:14He wasn't a show-off
32:15and didn't have to be
32:16the loudest person in the room
32:18to have a strong presence.
32:20The couple had been together
32:21for nearly eight years.
32:24He was a dad.
32:25He had two little kids,
32:26a little boy and a little girl.
32:28When was the last time
32:29you heard from Brandon?
32:30About 20 minutes
32:32before he was killed.
32:33I was with both my kids
32:34at a sporting event.
32:36We were planning
32:37to have him come
32:38and pick up our son.
32:40He said he would be there
32:41right away.
32:42He just had to do
32:43something quickly
32:44and then we didn't hear
32:45back from him.
32:46We believe that Brandon
32:48was there to either
32:50buy drugs or deal drugs.
32:52When he got in there,
32:53we believe that he was
32:55overtaken by two
32:57or three individuals.
32:58He was put in zip ties.
33:00He was much bigger
33:02and much more fit
33:03than the people
33:04that were trying to do it.
33:05We also learned
33:06after the fact
33:06that he was armed.
33:08My belief is that
33:09they were probably
33:09going to try and attach him
33:11to a piece of furniture
33:12to keep him somewhere
33:13and that he found
33:14an opportune time
33:15as they were attempting
33:16to do this to him
33:17to then fight back.
33:20And we believe
33:22he was able to
33:23escape the zip ties
33:24and once that occurred,
33:27a gunfight ensued.
33:29And once the gunfire ended,
33:31there was approximately
33:32eight rounds fired.
33:33Once that ended,
33:34everyone fled the scene.
33:36So what we're going to have
33:37is Ali running first.
33:39He'll be reaching
33:40at his belt area in pain.
33:42He had been shot.
33:43And then shortly behind him
33:45will be Oleth Jendron.
33:47Muhammad Ali was familiar
33:48with the area.
33:49Oleth Jendron didn't realize
33:50about this drop,
33:51I don't think,
33:52when the panic kept running.
33:52He actually falls off
33:54of this little precipice,
33:56drops a bunch of items,
33:57including some of the zip ties.
33:58He gathers himself,
34:00gathers his items
34:00and then continues after Ali.
34:07The next time that he
34:08comes to our attention
34:09is in Toronto.
34:12Police had finally caught up
34:14with their prime suspect
34:15in May of 2023,
34:18nearly a year
34:19after Brandon Baxendall's murder.
34:21They were able to confirm
34:23that Jonathan Oleth Jendron
34:25was renting that apartment
34:28under an assumed name.
34:29The next day, actually,
34:31we were hoping
34:31he was going to get arrested.
34:33But the night before,
34:35he's seen on video
34:36packing up and leaving.
34:39He does get into
34:40this white cobalt,
34:42but him getting into that vehicle
34:44is the last time
34:46we've seen him.
34:47We weren't able
34:51to identify
34:52the vehicle,
34:54any persons involved
34:55and where Jonathan
34:56went to after that.
34:58Police say
34:59Jonathan Oleth Jendron's
35:01trail goes cold
35:02and his whereabouts
35:04stay a mystery
35:05for a little over three years
35:07until they get
35:09a very surprising call.
35:11I'm sitting at my desk
35:13working
35:13and Chad walks into the office
35:14and said,
35:15you're not going to believe this.
35:16On August 1st, 2025,
35:18I was contacted
35:19and informed
35:20that Jonathan
35:21had reached out
35:22to his family
35:22who reside in Quebec
35:23and told them
35:25that he was currently
35:26in Mexico,
35:27he was tired of running
35:28and wanted to turn himself
35:30into the authorities.
35:31It was just really hard
35:32to believe
35:32that this was happening.
35:34After being notified,
35:35I reached out
35:36to Jonathan's family
35:37and they actually put me
35:38on a three-way call
35:39with Jonathan.
35:40So he told me
35:40that he was tired of running,
35:42he was in Mexico,
35:43he was healthy,
35:45he was worried
35:46about getting arrested
35:47in Mexico
35:47and ending up
35:48in a Mexican prison.
35:49You know,
35:50there was a lot of media blitz,
35:51there was a lot of work
35:52done by Crime Beat,
35:53by Bolo,
35:53by the Sassoon Police Service.
35:55Jonathan was well aware
35:56that he was wanted,
35:57he was aware
35:58of the $50,000 Bolo reward.
36:01He told me
36:02during the interview
36:02that he would monitor
36:03the internet
36:04from time to time
36:05and he actually even watched
36:06one of the Global Crime Beat
36:07episodes featuring him
36:08so he was well aware
36:09of that.
36:10So he wanted
36:11to turn himself in
36:12to Canadian authorities
36:13and just move on,
36:16get this over with.
36:18They discover
36:19what happened
36:20after he left
36:21that apartment
36:22in Toronto.
36:23In the middle
36:24of the night,
36:25he jumped in a car
36:26with his belongings
36:28and he went
36:28to Montreal
36:29and he stayed
36:32in Montreal
36:32for approximately
36:33a month
36:34and then he knew
36:36that he needed
36:37to get out
36:38of Canada.
36:38How he did that,
36:40which was quite interesting,
36:41was he went
36:44to a First Nation community
36:45that is situated
36:46along the Canada-United States border.
36:49He paid people
36:50to take him
36:51across a waterway
36:52into New York State
36:53by a jet ski.
36:55Once he was in New York,
36:56he took a bus
36:57to San Diego, California.
36:59Once in San Diego,
37:01he hired some other people
37:03to transport him illegally
37:05across the border
37:06into Mexico
37:06on a motorcycle.
37:08The way he describes
37:09is you hop on the back
37:10of the motorbike
37:11and they just don't stop.
37:13They just leave in
37:14out of the traffic,
37:15accelerate,
37:15and they're gone.
37:16And then he's in Mexico.
37:18From there,
37:18he went to Cancun, Mexico,
37:20where he said he partied
37:23and lived it up
37:23for about three months.
37:27And when the party scene
37:29got too much
37:29and he was out of money,
37:32he decided to go
37:33to a little surf town
37:35in Mexico
37:35where he got a job,
37:38a legitimate job,
37:40he said,
37:40working construction.
37:42And at one point,
37:44he said he got
37:45basically kidnapped
37:47by the cartel
37:50and he was held
37:51for three or four hours
37:52and was beat up
37:54quite severely.
37:55They were demanding
37:56money from him.
37:58They knew that he had
37:59a $50,000 reward
38:01against him
38:02from the BOLO program.
38:04He described that
38:05as being a wake-up call
38:06to him.
38:08So that's what kind of
38:09started the thought process
38:11of turning himself in.
38:13Because in my 24 years
38:14of policing,
38:15this was a first for me.
38:16I had a wanted male,
38:18wanted for homicide.
38:20He's wanting to turn
38:22himself in.
38:23He's in another country
38:24illegally,
38:25has no passport,
38:26no ID,
38:27no money,
38:27no bank account.
38:29And how do we get him
38:30back to Canada safely?
38:32So we were able
38:32to get him on a plane
38:33and we had officers
38:35waiting in Montreal
38:36to arrest him.
38:37So once the plane landed,
38:39officers went onto
38:40the airplane
38:41and arrested
38:42Mr. Oledjendron.
38:45Very emotional.
38:46Right when I got word
38:47that the handcuffs
38:48were on Jonathan,
38:49the very first call
38:50I made was to
38:51Brandon's mother.
38:53I believe the first
38:54words out of my mouth
38:56when she answered
38:56was,
38:57we got him.
38:57She was in complete shock.
39:00She put me on speakerphone
39:02with the rest of the family
39:03where I went over
39:06the week's events
39:07and how things transpired.
39:09So it was a very emotional
39:10conversation with them.
39:11Welcome back to Crime Beat.
39:24Half of Canada's
39:26most wanted
39:27are now behind bars
39:28with many arrested
39:29internationally,
39:31including Cody Casey
39:33in Oman,
39:34Kamara Cunningham
39:35in Atlanta, Georgia,
39:36and Harry Rajkumar
39:38in Guyana.
39:39One police organization
39:40has been instrumental
39:42in helping track them down.
39:44Interpol, Crime Beat,
39:46got an inside look
39:47at how they operate
39:48across continents.
39:52Here now is the conclusion
39:54of Manhunt.
39:58After 11 years on the run,
40:00an infamous BC man
40:02wanted for murder
40:03has been arrested
40:04in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico.
40:07After more than a year
40:08on the run,
40:08one of the provinces
40:09and the country's
40:10most wanted fugitives
40:11has finally been arrested
40:13and taken into custody
40:14south of the border
40:15in California.
40:17A convicted gun trafficker
40:18has been arrested
40:19in the United States.
40:21After more than six years
40:22on the run,
40:23one of Canada's
40:24most wanted suspects
40:25is behind bars tonight.
40:28Police say Harry Rajkumar
40:29was located and arrested
40:31in Guyana in December
40:32and has now been extradited
40:34back to Canada.
40:35Once they go abroad,
40:39Canada has to interact
40:40with multiple police forces
40:42around the world.
40:44And they do that
40:45through Interpol.
40:47Interpol, the organization
40:48itself, is known
40:50as the largest police
40:51organization in the world.
40:53And there are currently
40:53196 countries
40:55that are members
40:56of Interpol.
40:58Interpol was created
41:00in Vienna, Austria
41:02in 1923.
41:04And the purpose
41:05was to capture fugitives.
41:10There are 19 databases
41:11that Interpol has
41:12that allows law enforcement
41:15around the world
41:15to access information
41:17in real time.
41:18So if we know
41:19of a fugitive
41:20that is traveling somewhere
41:22or potentially
41:23in another country,
41:24the Interpol
41:25will allow us
41:25to just connect
41:26with the other country
41:27right away
41:27to gather
41:28whatever information
41:29that we require.
41:30There's a database
41:31on stolen cars.
41:33So any country
41:34could run a car
41:35and then would know
41:36if it's stolen
41:36in another country.
41:37It could be a stolen
41:38work of art.
41:39It could be a DNA.
41:41It could be
41:42a missing person.
41:43If any time
41:44somebody runs
41:45and there's a hit
41:46against a database,
41:47automatically
41:48the NCV
41:48will get alerted.
41:49That averages
41:58to about 25 million
42:00searches a day.
42:03So if you do the math,
42:04it's 293 searches
42:07per second.
42:08We also have
42:10an international network
42:12of RCMP liaison officers.
42:14There are about
42:1570 liaison officers
42:17in all regions
42:18of the world.
42:19So we have
42:20all continents covered.
42:21So their job
42:23is basically
42:23to be our boots
42:25on the ground
42:26in order to advance
42:27what Canadian police
42:28requires to advance
42:30their investigation.
42:31One of Interpol's
42:32most powerful tools
42:34is the Red Notice.
42:36It's basically,
42:38it's an alert
42:38that is published
42:40to all 196 countries
42:42member of Interpol.
42:44A picture
42:44is going to be
42:46in the Red Notice.
42:47Fingerprints
42:47are going to be
42:48on the Red Notice.
42:50There's going to be
42:51a summary
42:51of the occurrence.
42:53So what happened
42:53and the crimes
42:56that they're wanted
42:56in Canada.
42:59I mean,
42:59it's normally
43:00serious crime,
43:02which could be
43:03murder,
43:05organized crime,
43:06terrorism,
43:07major frauds.
43:09Canada currently
43:09has 181
43:12active Red Notices
43:13for individuals
43:15wanted in Canada
43:16that are believed
43:16to be abroad.
43:18So currently,
43:19Interpol globally
43:21has over 125,000
43:24active Red Notices.
43:27Every one of us,
43:29every police officer
43:30serving in this room,
43:31every member of the public
43:32who's watching,
43:33listening,
43:34or reading about
43:34this announcement
43:35have a part to play
43:37in locating
43:38these wanted fugitives.
43:39While the hunt
43:40for the suspects
43:41is making huge gains,
43:44there are many
43:44still at large.
43:47For the families
43:48of the victims,
43:49a painful
43:50wait for justice.
43:52So police
43:53are asking the public
43:54to look closely
43:56at Canada's
43:57top 25
43:58most wanted.
44:00Catherine
44:01and a number
44:02of her associates
44:03were involved
44:03in an auto theft ring.
44:05She is wanted
44:06for murder.
44:06It was on August
44:078th of 2024.
44:09Catherine fatally
44:10stabbed one
44:11of her associates
44:12who was at the time
44:14a 16-year-old youth
44:15and left him
44:17for dead.
44:19Mr. Berry
44:20is wanted
44:20for second-degree murder
44:21in Toronto.
44:23Innocent,
44:2343-year-old male,
44:26simple argument
44:27on the sidewalk.
44:29Words were exchanged
44:30and Mr. Robertson Berry
44:32turned around
44:33and had a firearm
44:34on him
44:34and shot him
44:35for no reason
44:36over a simple
44:37verbal comment
44:39that was made.
44:40We just ask the public
44:41to be our eyes and ears.
44:43They don't have
44:43to become involved.
44:44We're not asking them
44:45to apprehend anybody.
44:46But if they see something,
44:47say something.
44:49For the latest
44:50on Canada's
44:51Most Wanted,
44:52you can go to
44:53boloprogram.org.
44:55If you have any information,
44:57you are asked
44:58to call Crime Stoppers.
45:00Thank you for joining us
45:02tonight on Crime Beat.
45:03I'm Antony Robart.
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