Two fugitives accused of gang murder and unfulfilled arrest warrants were among four BC men found dead and now identified after a mysterious small plane crash in remote northwestern Ontario.
One of the men, Jean-Carl Larkamp, a suspected international assassin and former Canadian military man, bred Belgian malinois before being on the wanted list and fleeing the Thai Royal Police.
Larkamp and a second man with Canadian military experience, 36-year-old Matthew Dupre, were accused by Thai royal police of traveling to Phuket to kill former Abbots gangster Jimmy Sandu, who was shot dead by two hooded suspects on February 5. .
Dupre was arrested in Alberta and remained in prison awaiting extradition.
Larkamp’s body was one of four found from the remains of a four-seater Piper PA 28-140, found near Sioux Lookout, Ont., In the early hours of April 30.
Both Dupre and Larkamp were released from the Canadian Armed Forces as corporals, according to the CAF.
This Piper PA-28-140 was found crashed in Ontario on April 30 with four dead bodies in the wreckage. (Facebook)
The relationship between the 4 dead is still a mystery
Sergeant Brenda Winpeni of the British Columbia Combined Special Forces (CFSEU-BC), which assisted Thai police in searching for Larkamp, said a rare temporary arrest warrant had been issued to help Larkamp investigate the murder. in Phuket before he was found dead with the other three men.
“We are not familiar with the people who were on the plane,” she added.
Winpenie says investigators will investigate why the four were together and any ties between them.
“What were the circumstances why Jean Larkamp was on this plane?”
A man with ties to the gang of independent soldiers – Duncan Bailey, 37 – was also found in the wreckage.
Bailey was released on bail on charges of conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the Vancouver shooting on October 6, 2020, in which 42-year-old Mir Hussein was shot while carrying a baby in a car seat while leaving Bells and Whistles Pub in the Dunbar neighborhood of Vancouver.
Bailey was accused of plotting to kill Hussein with an accomplice.
While Hussein survived the shooting, he was shot and killed in May 2021 in Coquitlam in a murder that has not yet been revealed.
The pilot of the fatal plane crash has been identified
Dan McLaughlin of the British Columbia Attorney’s Office told CBC News that Bailey’s arrest warrant was issued on April 26 after he failed to meet a number of bail conditions.
A civil confiscation lawsuit filed against both Bailey and another Kamloops man last November revealed that Vancouver police had seized $ 400,000 from a residence in Ocotox, Alta. this is said to be a payment for Hussein’s shooting in 2020.
Bailey was charged with breach of bail. An arrest warrant was issued for him on April 26, the BC prosecutor’s office said.
Police confirmed on Tuesday that the pilot who died in the plane crash was Abhivan Handa, 26, of Richmond, British Columbia.
Ontario police confirmed the name of the fourth man, Hankun Hong, 27, of Richmond, British Columbia, on Wednesday after informing his family.
“Today we were able to make sure that family members in another country were informed of the tragic end of the fourth victim of a plane crash in northwestern Ontario,” said Ontario police spokesman Bill Dixon in an interview with CBC.
Police at the scene of the shooting of Mir Hussein, who was found on the ground next to his white Toyota Highlander 2020 with gunshot wounds in an alley near Hart Street and Henderson Avenue in Coquitlam on Saturday, May 22, 2021 (Shane McKichan)
Ontario Provincial Police and the Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.
Eric Vermett, a senior researcher with the Transport Safety Council of Canada, says they will look at everything from aircraft maintenance records to pilot qualification and time records to determine why the small plane crashed.
He said the sky was cloudy and there was light rain during the flight.
The search began on April 29, when the plane did not arrive on schedule in the flight plan and the transponder of the emergency locator of the plane began to broadcast.
The search and rescue team was coordinated by the Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC) Trenton, Ontario.
David Lavalli, a public relations officer at the Royal Canadian Air Force, confirmed that the search for Piper began near Sioux Lookout, Ont., Early Saturday.
He was found after searchers refined the transponder of the locator about 100 kilometers east of Dryden, Ont.
Four bodies were found at the crash site in a wooded area.
The plane was flying from Dryden, Ont., East to Marathon, Ont.
The plane took off in Dryden around 9:09 p.m. on April 29, according to aviation officials.
Civil aviation records show that the plane – owned by a woman from Richmond, British Columbia – initially left Delta Heritage Park on April 23.
The remains of the Piper PA-28 Cherokee were found in the Lake Cuckoo area, about 40 kilometers southeast of Sioux Lookout, Ont., According to Ontario provincial police. The small passenger plane was heading from Dryden to Marathon when it crashed on Saturday morning. (CBC)
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