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

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

The program’s website says Alkhalil is a “highly dangerous criminal” who was released from the North Fraser Correctional 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 unknown if he is still in Canada or abroad because he is “known to use false IDs and passports.” .

Crime Stoppers says Alkhalil’s escape was aided by a pair of “men posing as contractors” at the prison and he is also the subject of an Interpol red notice.

The Bolo program’s website says the money is available until Dec. 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 on October 29, 2024.