{"id":834783,"date":"2026-07-30T00:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834783\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T00:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T00:23:13","slug":"montreal-police-ask-for-publics-help-locating-wanted-sex-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/834783\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal police ask for public&#8217;s help locating wanted sex offender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal police are asking for the public&#8217;s help locating a sex offender who allegedly violated his supervision conditions with Correctional Service Canada. <\/p>\n<p>Mario Charette, 65, was in Montreal when the alleged violation took place, but police said in a news release issued Wednesday that he could be elsewhere in Quebec or Canada. <\/p>\n<p>Charette is described as a French-speaking white man who is five feet five inches tall and weighs just under 200 pounds. <\/p>\n<p>He has grey hair and blue eyes, wears prescription glasses and may have a grey moustache and beard. He also has scars on his right cheek and near his left eye. <\/p>\n<p>He has several visible tattoos, including the name &#8220;Karine&#8221; accompanied by a cross and the name &#8220;Mario&#8221; on his right arm. <\/p>\n<p>He also has a boat anchor and two hearts with a dagger on his right forearm, as well as the name &#8220;Linda&#8221; and a panther on his left arm. A bird tattoo is visible on his chest. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"man\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785370993_802_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2861635220125787\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Mario Charette, 65, was last seen wearing a black cap with the word &#8220;Energy&#8221; on the right side. (Submitted by the SPVM)<\/p>\n<p>When last seen, he was wearing a black cap with the word &#8220;Energy&#8221; on the right side, a black long-sleeved shirt and dark pants. <\/p>\n<p>This is not he first time Charette has been accused of dodging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/mario-charette-sexual-offender-wanted-1.6890119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">supervision orders<\/a>. In 2023, he was caught by provincial police in Mont-Laurier, Que., 235 kilometres northwest of Montreal.  <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information that could help locate Charette is asked to contact their local police service or Montreal police&#8217;s sexual assault unit at 514-280-8502. <\/p>\n<p>People wishing to provide information anonymously can contact Info-Crime Montr\u00e9al at 514-393-1133 or submit a report through its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-834783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834783","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=834783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}