$50,000 reward offered to help police trace Quebec fugitive wanted on multiple sex crimes
Global News
Canada-wide warrants have been issued for Blake Charbonneau, 35, who is five feet seven inches tall with brown hair, blue eyes, and speaks French, English and Spanish.
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Quebec provincial police are looking for a man who is suspected of sexually exploiting and assaulting multiple victims, and a $50,000 reward is being offered to anyone who helps authorities locate him.
Blake Charbonneau, 35, is from Laval, Que., and police say he is “extremely dangerous.” According to the Sûreté du Québec (SQ), Charbonneau pimped his victims and committed sexual assaults at gunpoint.
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To date, authorities have four victims in the case, but Insp. Pierre Mathieu Vivier said earlier this week that police believe there are likely more.
The SQ’s anti-sexual exploitation task force has enlisted the case in the pan-Canadian BOLO program, which is a “most wanted list” that gets heavy media and social network coverage and digital displays and billboards (they will be up in Montreal, Laval, Terrebonne and Quebec City) alerting the public that police are searching for the suspect.
“In addition to controlling his victims and forcing them into the sex trade, he violently and sexually assaulted several women that he met on social media platforms,” reads a statement from the organization on the case.
BOLO, which is funded by the Stéphane Crétier Foundation, offers a reward of $50,000 to anyone whose information helps police trace the fugitive.