Flip your self in, Mr. Mackenzie.
The director of a nationwide program to find Canada’s most wished criminals has introduced that for Norman John Mackenzie, there may be actually nowhere for him to cover.
“Somebody is aware of the place you might be, Mr. Mackenzie,” Maxime Langlois of BOLO, an acronym for Be On The Lookout, mentioned Wednesday.
“It’s only a matter of time till you’re captured, put again behind bars, and face new costs for having been unlawfully at massive.”
Langlois was talking at a information convention on the RCMP’s E Division headquarters in Surrey the place BOLO provided a reward of as much as $50,000 for info resulting in Mackenzie’s arrest. The reward expires July eight.
Mackenzie was sentenced to life in jail for second-degree homicide in 1982. He was serving his time at Mission Institution, a minimum-security correctional facility east of Vancouver. Throughout a head rely on Aug. 7, 2018, officers found he was lacking.
Mackenzie was additionally serving time for armed theft and different offences.
Mission RCMP Insp. Stephen Corp mentioned on the time of his escape, Mackenzie was thought-about a low-key inmate. He described Mackenzie as “extraordinarily clever and laptop savvy.”
He mentioned Mackenzie is a white male, 59 years outdated, with blue eyes. His final identified hair color was mild brown. He weighs 197 kilos and is five-foot-nine. He has a scar on the facet of his proper eye.
“The Mission RCMP consider that Mackenzie could have fled Canada and is at present at massive internationally,” Corp mentioned. Anybody with details about John McKenzie’s whereabouts is requested to contact Mission RCMP at or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
BOLO is a brand new strategy to fixing crime that makes use of social media and know-how to assist police find the nation’s most wished criminals. It’s a program initiated by the Stephan Crétier Foundation.
Crétier is the founder and CEO of Montreal-based GardaWorld Safety, described as one of many world’s top-five world safety companies.