Rabih Alkhalil: Still Number One on British Columbia’s Most Wanted List
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Gangster, twice convicted of murder, escaped from a Port Coquitlam prison last summer
Linda Annis, executive director of Metro Vancouver CrimeStoppers, holds a Valentine’s Day heart with the face of murderer and prison fugitive Rabih Alkhalil at an event showcasing six of BC’s most wanted fugitives. Photo by Mike Bell/Postmedia
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Wolfpack gangster Rabih Alkhalil, a twice-convicted murderer, remains at the top of British Columbia’s most wanted list with a $250,000 reward for his capture after his dramatic escape from a Metro Vancouver prison last summer.
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Metro Vancouver Crime Stoppers issued a Valentine’s Day appeal for information on Alkhalil’s whereabouts and that of five other fugitives.
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Alkhalil escaped from North Fraser Pretrial Center on July 21 with the help of two accomplices posing as contractors to gain access to Port Coquitlam prison.
Weeks later, a BC Supreme Court jury convicted him in absentia of first-degree murder in the 2012 killing of longtime rival Sandip Duhre. He was also convicted of conspiring to murder Duhre and mobster Sukh Dhak, who was gunned down in November 2012 , found guilty. Alkhalil was already serving his life for the June 2012 murder of Johnny Raposo in Toronto, who was shot while watching football at a cafe in Little Italy.
Linda Annis, executive director of Metro Vancouver Crime Stoppers, urged the public to provide information as to where Alkhalil and the other five escapees may be.
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“Someone knows where these people are and we are urging them to do the right thing and call Crime Stoppers anonymously,” she said.
Rabih “Robby” Alkhalil.
Three of the men on the list – Jemroi Alunday Ibarra, 34, Kevin Asi Gonzales, 33 and Duc Quan Phung, 36 – were arrested in January 2022 after the RCMP’s federal Serious and Organized Crime Unit uncovered a “drugs super laboratory” in Abbotsford reportedly manufactured fentanyl, ecstasy and cannabis extracts.
They were then released in the course of the investigation and only charged on December 22.
Details of the investigation were only released last month – a year after raids were carried out at a location in Abbotsford and a second address in Surrey.
Cpl Arash Seyed said the term “superlaboratory” is used to describe “large-scale, sophisticated clandestine drug laboratories capable of producing significant quantities of illicit drugs, which are also often linked to organized crime”.
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Police seized over 16 kilograms of crystalline methamphetamine, four kilograms of pure fentanyl, more than 315 kilograms of cannabis buds, about $20,000 and a stash of precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl, Seyed said.
“In evaluating the bulk chemicals seized, Health Canada concluded that the precursor chemicals could have produced an additional 50 kilograms of pure fentanyl at this site.”
Also on the Most Wanted list is Wolfpack Gang employee and former real estate agent Ricky Korasak, who is wanted in both Canada and the United States
He was charged in December 2019 with alleged involvement in an August 2015 assassination attempt in Maple Ridge. He was with two British Columbia employees at block 22200 of the Lougheed Highway around 2:30 a.m. when two victims were stabbed outside the historic Haney Hotel.
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A few months earlier, Korasak had been indicted in California as an alleged leader of an international criminal organization that smuggled drugs between Canada and the United States.
One of his Vancouver co-defendants in the US case, Vincent Yen Tek Chiu, was sentenced in October to more than 14 years in prison for international smuggling of cocaine, heroin and ecstasy.
The last person on the list is 31-year-old Drayton James Steinhaur, who was charged with assault in Surrey in December. He is also wanted in connection with manslaughter, burglary and robbery, according to the Crime Stoppers press release.
Court records show that in November 2012 he was sentenced to 10 years in Edmonton for manslaughter and then had his sentence extended by an additional two years for violently assaulting a fellow inmate.
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Annis said, “Anonymous tips work.”
“Metro Vancouver Crime Stoppers received more than 4,000 anonymous tips in 2022, leading to 73 arrests, 13 illegal weapon seizures and $1.4 million in property and illegal drug seizures,” she said.
Coquitlam RCMP released video surveillance of the two suspects helping Rabih (Robby) Alkhalil escape from the North Fraser Pretrial on 21 July 2022. The suspects fled in a white Ford Econoline van. Photo by HANDOUT/RCMP/jpg
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