The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) is confident that it could “very soon” get its hands on All Boivin, one of the most wanted criminals in Canada. She is hopeful that increasing the reward for information leading to her arrest will be the push needed to convince some to cooperate.
“We know that several people in Quebec are in contact with him and speak to him,” explains the chief inspector of the National Directorate of Intelligence and Analysis of the SQ, Pierre-Mathieu Viviers.
Tuesday morning, the provincial police force announced that the Bolo Program, a non-profit organization which asks for the public’s help to locate the country’s most wanted suspects, has increased the bounty it offered for information leading to Boivin’s capture of $100,000 to $250,000.
The Bolo Program increased its reward for information leading to the arrest of All Boivin from $100,000 to $250,000 on October 8, 2024. The announced bounty was still $100,000 at the time this photo was taken .
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“At $100,000, we got a lot of information and good leads. We think that the new reward could be the little push that was missing to find him,” continues Mr. Viviers.
Lots of movements
The chief inspector maintains that the increase in the reward comes at the right time, in the midst of significant movements within organized crime.
“Things are changing a lot in terms of allegiances, among street gangs, independent traffickers and bikers. The momentum is good and this amount is very interesting.”
In the eyes of the Sûreté du Québec, All Boivin is considered the leader of his own organization which pulls the strings of the drug war against the Hells Angels in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region.
He would be a collaborator of the Blood Family Mafia of kingpin Dave “Pic” Turmel with whom he shares the same objective: to control the drug market in Eastern Quebec without paying royalties to bikers.
Fake identities
According to Pierre-Mathieu Viviers, investigators have “good reason to believe” that the person wanted for drug trafficking, trafficking conspiracy and possession with a view to trafficking substances is still in the country.
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“We are convinced that he communicates with people in Quebec. He would use false identities on a daily basis,” he specifies, adding that the fugitive among the most wanted in Canada is the subject of an INTERPOL red notice and that it would therefore be difficult for him to leave the country. on the sly.
Biggest bounty in history in Quebec
Since the founding of the Bolo Program in 2018, Boivin became the fourth fugitive with a $250,000 bounty attached across the country.
“It’s a historic award in Quebec. This is the first time that we have made an increase from $100,000 to $250,000 since the creation of the organization. The goal is to ensure that he is arrested as quickly as possible,” argues the executive director of the Bolo Program, Maxime Langlois.
A historic award
Bolo offered bounties of $250,000 for only four criminals in the country
- Avril 2022: Abilaziz Mohamed, 32, wanted for a murder committed in Toronto. Arrested in less than 12 hours after publication of the reward offered.
- July 2022: Rabih Alkhalil, 37, escaped from a British Columbia prison while on trial for murder. Still on the run, the bounty has been reduced to $100,000.
- October 2022: Cristian Cuxum, 21, wanted following a murder and two attempted murders during an indoor soccer match in the Greater Toronto Area. Still in the wild, the reward is now $100,000.
- October 2024: All Boivin, 35, wanted for drug trafficking, trafficking conspiracy and possession with intent to traffic substances. He would be one of the leaders behind the rise in violence between criminal groups in Eastern Quebec. The bonus offered to the public increased from $100,000 to $250,000 on Tuesday.
