{"id":718592,"date":"2026-06-06T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T08:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/718592\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T08:06:15","slug":"montreal-police-ask-for-publics-help-in-locating-sexual-offender-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/718592\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal police ask for public’s help in locating sexual offender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montreal police are asking for the public’s help in locating Chistopher Watts \u2014 a 66-year-old sex offender who is currently at large.<\/p>\n

In a news release, Montreal police said Watts was in the Montreal area at the time he violated the conditions of his Correctional Service Canada (CSC) supervision.<\/p>\n

The Montreal police sex offender surveillance team has been tasked with assisting CSC in its investigation.<\/p>\n

Watts is described as a white male, is six feet one inch tall and weighs 160 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n

\"Montreal<\/p>\n

Montreal police are asking anyone with information that could help locate Christopher Watts to go to their local police station or call 911. (Montreal police handout photo)<\/p>\n

Police say that at the time of the incident, he was wearing a black hat, prescription glasses, a dark short-sleeved shirt, grey pants and dark shoes.<\/p>\n

“He may be in Quebec or elsewhere in Canada,” police said.<\/p>\n

The Ontario man was convicted in the 2001 drug-overdose death of 13-year-old Amanda Raymond and served his entire 12-year prison sentence for manslaughter, sexual assault and sexual interference, after which he had to be released.<\/p>\n

The high-risk offender has been in and out of detention over the years and is on a long-term supervision order.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information that could help locate Watts should go to their local police station or call 911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal police are asking for the public’s help in locating Chistopher Watts \u2014 a 66-year-old sex offender who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,260034,260033,128848,260035,2338,38249,36424],"class_list":["post-718592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chistopher-watts","tag-christopher-watts","tag-correctional-service-canada","tag-local-police-station","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-police","tag-sex-offender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}