A DRUG LORD ESCAPED FROM PRISON IN B.C., AND NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT
The Strange Tale of Hells Angels-linked Rabih Alkhalil's escape from prison
Hey folks,
On July 22nd, 2022, something extraordinary unfolded in a Vancouver suburb called Port Coquitlam: a notorious drug lord walked right out of prison.
If I told you that such an event occurred without specifying where, you might envision a scene from a corrupt narco-state, with collusion from within the legal system.
But guess what? This happened in Canada.
What does that say about our country?
The story I’m about to tell is about a gangster named Rabih Alkhalil, a Palestinian-born Canadian gangster who cut his teeth in Surrey, B.C., and played a leadership role in the Wolfpack Alliance, an alliance between the Hell’s Angels and two multiethnic B.C.-based gangs - the Red Scorpions and the Independent Soldiers.
Members of the Wolfpack Alliance were importing cocaine from the notorious Sinaloa Cartel, but the alliance was short-lived, though Mexican cartels are presumably in Canada for good now.
The purpose of this article is not to explain the intricacies of Canada’s criminal underworld so much as to focus on one particular event - Rabih Alkhalil’s escape from prison. If you would like to know more about Canadian gangsters, I refer you to the following two videos, both of which are incredibly instructive.
THE ESCAPE
During the evening hours of Thursday, July 21, 2022, the RCMP were called to a prison (North Fraser Pretrial Centre) in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, for the escape of Rabih Alkhalil, a high-profile prisoner.
How, you ask? Through an epic, mile-long tunnel, El Chapo-style?
Nope. A couple of white men walked into the prison wearing high-vis jackets and somehow escorted Alkhalil out of the jail, where they entered an Econoline van and drove away. That’s it.
If you were looking forward to an epic tale suitable for a Hollywood gangster movie, you’re going to have to look elsewhere.
WHO WERE THE MEN WHO ESCORTED ALKHALIL OUT OF PRISON?
The men who walked Alkhalil out of prison have not been identified or criminally charged, nor have authorities offered an explanation for how they gained access to the prison.
All we know is that they were white men who look suspiciously like cops or prison guards.
According to multiple news articles, they were “posing as contractors”, but it should go without saying that this isn’t much of an explanation. Obviously, prisons have security protocols that would normally prevent people “posing as contractors” from walking into a prison. According to police, they purported to be there to do repairs. The company they were pretending to be working for is not named, nor has the type of repair they were there to do been specified. It’s noteworthy that they are not carrying any tools, nor have authorities released any footage of them doing any repairs.
According to this Global News report, “they used a plasma torch to cut through the jail”, but this explanation is unsatisfactory, to say the least.
This is a picture of North Fraser Pretrial Detention.
Here’s a closer look at the outermost wall:
Do you think that you could cut through that wall with a plasma torch? If so, what kind? How many walls did this one plasma torch have to cut through? Why doesn’t any surveillance footage show Alkhalil’s rescuers carrying a tool or toolkit? Are we to believe that a plasma torch that can cut through multiple walls can be concealed so well that there is no surveillance footage of it? Why are there no photos of any hole caused by a plasma torch? Why would prison guards allow them to bring a plasma torch into a prison? What kind of repairs require a plasma torch, anyway? And why were these supposed contractors allowed to work unsupervised?
Perhaps most importantly, why is no one else asking these questions?
Obviously, the story about an alleged plasma torch doesn’t hold up. Really, a more parsimonious explanation is that Alkhalil was simply allowed to walk out of prison by prison staff, that authorities are lying to the media, and that the media is uncritically parroting what PR people tell them.
Yeah, I know, that’s hard to believe… unless you know something about the history of the Port Coquitlam RCMP.
BUT WAIT… THERE’S MORE!
On July 22nd, 2022, the day after the escape, the Port Coquitlam RCMP released photos of Alkhalil’s suspected accomplices.
If you want to see a shining example of the current state of Canadian journalism, I encourage you to watch this video, in which an RCMP spokesperson confidently asserts that “police believe we have identified the two suspects”.
A day later, the media was singing a different tune.
On July 23rd, just 2 days after the escape, a Vancouver Sun article reported that:
Coquitlam RCMP confirmed Saturday that two photos they released a day earlier as suspected accomplices in the brazen jailbreak of accused killer Robby Alkhalil are fake.
But Const. Deanna Law said the men in the pictures, which are available on websites selling fake identification, resemble the two people who arrived at the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam Thursday purporting to be contractors there to do repairs.
“It is believed that the suspects who helped Alkhalil escape bear a close resemblance to the photos they left behind, but those images are not them”, Law said. “As with many complex investigations, the information is rapidly changing as we progress.”
Online sleuths sent Postmedia several photos from various websites that matched the ones police originally released. Postmedia then provided the photos to Coquitlam RCMP Saturday morning for comment.
There you have it, folks. Canadian journalism at its finest.