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11-02-2007, 01:54 PM
The Canadian Press
November 2, 2007 at 1:09 PM EDT
MONTREAL — One of America's 15 most-wanted fugitives has been ordered deported after his recent arrest in New Brunswick.
Richard Lee McNair, a convicted killer, was captured near Campbellton on Oct. 25 — 18 months after escaping from a Louisiana prison.
An Immigration and Refugee Board official ruled on Friday that Mr. McNair has no grounds to remain in Canada.
Commissioner Marie-Louise Cote ordered Mr. McNair, 48, deported based in part on his "serious criminality."
Mr. McNair was sentenced to life in prison for the 1987 killing of a grain elevator worker in Minot, N.D.
He has escaped from U.S. authorities twice before and fled from RCMP officers in British Columbia shortly after his third escape last year.
Ms. Cote cited these examples in determining that Mr. McNair also poses a flight risk and is a threat to the public. She ordered him to remain detained at the maximum-security Atlantic Institution in Renous, N.B., until the deportation order is carried out.
Mr. McNair, who appeared at the hearing via video link, offered no defence to the government's allegations.
Representing himself at the hearing, Mr. McNair simply acknowledged the government's evidence against him.
Law-enforcement officials in the United States say they're anxious to put Mr. McNair back behind bars, and will likely house him at a super-maximum-security prison because of his history of escapes.
Canadian border officials are expected to carry out the deportation in the coming weeks.
Courtesy of the www.GlobeandMail.com
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071102.wdeport1102/BNStory/National/home
You may remember that McNair was convicted of killing a grain truck driver who was sitting in line eating an ice cream waiting for his turn to be loaded at an elevator in North Dakota.
November 2, 2007 at 1:09 PM EDT
MONTREAL — One of America's 15 most-wanted fugitives has been ordered deported after his recent arrest in New Brunswick.
Richard Lee McNair, a convicted killer, was captured near Campbellton on Oct. 25 — 18 months after escaping from a Louisiana prison.
An Immigration and Refugee Board official ruled on Friday that Mr. McNair has no grounds to remain in Canada.
Commissioner Marie-Louise Cote ordered Mr. McNair, 48, deported based in part on his "serious criminality."
Mr. McNair was sentenced to life in prison for the 1987 killing of a grain elevator worker in Minot, N.D.
He has escaped from U.S. authorities twice before and fled from RCMP officers in British Columbia shortly after his third escape last year.
Ms. Cote cited these examples in determining that Mr. McNair also poses a flight risk and is a threat to the public. She ordered him to remain detained at the maximum-security Atlantic Institution in Renous, N.B., until the deportation order is carried out.
Mr. McNair, who appeared at the hearing via video link, offered no defence to the government's allegations.
Representing himself at the hearing, Mr. McNair simply acknowledged the government's evidence against him.
Law-enforcement officials in the United States say they're anxious to put Mr. McNair back behind bars, and will likely house him at a super-maximum-security prison because of his history of escapes.
Canadian border officials are expected to carry out the deportation in the coming weeks.
Courtesy of the www.GlobeandMail.com
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071102.wdeport1102/BNStory/National/home
You may remember that McNair was convicted of killing a grain truck driver who was sitting in line eating an ice cream waiting for his turn to be loaded at an elevator in North Dakota.