BC Fugitive Found in Puerto Rico Returned to Canada to Stand Trial for Murder

Published on March 22, 2024

Police say a Canadian gang leader who escaped to Puerto Rico and posed as a businessman has been returned to Canada to face trial for his alleged role in a 2009 homicide in Vancouver. British Columbia’s gang squad, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, says Conor D’Monte is being held in a Canadian pretrial facility after his arrest in 2022. Police say Mr. D’Monte, who was known as Johnny Williams in Puerto Rico, was allegedly a high-ranking member of the United Nations gang in B.C., and is accused of killing a Red Scorpion rival gang member in February 2009. The shooting death of Kevin LeClair at a Vancouver strip mall came during a violent gang war in B.C.’s Lower Mainland that included brazen shootings in public....

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