Manhunt widens for three Quebec inmates who escaped using helicopter
Police check a car by the Orsainville Detention Center near Quebec
City on Saturday, June 7, 2014. Three inmates have escaped from the
center with the help of a helicopter, police said late Saturday. (AP
Photo/The Canadian Press, Francis Vachon)
Sunday, June 8, 2014
By: Associated Press
MONTREAL -- The search widened Sunday for three Quebec inmates who used
a helicopter to make a brazen escape from jail as dusk approached a
day earlier.
Authorities were put on alert across the province, in the rest of
Canada, and in the United States, according to Quebec provincial
police.
"We have co-operation with all the police forces across the country
and abroad also," said Sgt. Gregory Gomez.
"We have many, many officers who are scattering all the areas
possible. Investigators are, of course, checking every lead."
Police were reluctant to provide many details about their
investigation for fear the escapees could be monitoring media reports.
The escapees were identified as Yves Denis, 35, Denis Lefebvre, 53,
and Serge Pomerleau, 49.
The men fled from the Orsainville Detention Centre barbed wire in
suburban Quebec City around 7:45 p.m. with the help of a
green-coloured helicopter.
The facility is lined with barbed-wire fencing and features a watch post.
The chopper landed in a courtyard of the detention centre then quickly
took off again heading west, perhaps toward Trois-Rivieres or
Montreal, police said.
The three men were originally arrested on drug trafficking and
gangsterism charges in 2010, according to police.
Two of the men, Denis and Lefebvre, were subsequently charged with
murder, according to the Quebec provincial police website.
The status of the men's cases in the court system was not immediately
clear. Provincial jails in Canada normally house people awaiting trial
or those sentenced to offences of two years or less behind bars.
Police said the men were swept up in a major 2010 police operation
called Operation Ecrevisse (Project Crayfish), aimed at bringing down
a drug trafficking ring in northwestern Quebec.
During the raid, police made 51 arrests and seized $905,000 and 2
kilograms of cocaine, along with other drugs, police said. They also
seized a plane and a helicopter.
Police released photos of the three men on social media and appealed
to the public for help, but warned anyone who spotted them not to
approach and immediately contact police.
Audrey-Anne Bilodeau, another police spokeswoman, said Saturday police
were working with surrounding airports and Quebec's Valcartier
military base to help track down the chopper.
The Orsainville Detention Centre, about 10 kilometres from the centre
of Quebec City, can hold up to 710 offenders.
In 2010, it was the scene of a fire and a violent skirmish that ended
with two inmates dead and another six rushed to hospital.
It was also the scene of a riot in February 2008, which was apparently
triggered by a smoking ban at the facility.
Saturday's helicopter escape had similarities to another bold
jailbreak last year.
Two inmates made a similar break from a St-Jerome, Que., prison in March 2013.
A helicopter pilot was forced at gunpoint to fly to the prison on a
Sunday afternoon.
Two inmates at the facility, which is about 60 kilometres from
Montreal, climbed a rope ladder into the hovering helicopter and fled.
The two escapees and the two men accused of hijacking the chopper were
picked up by police in Mont-Tremblant, about 85 kilometres away,
within a few hours of the escape?
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