{"id":840644,"date":"2026-08-01T15:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840644\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T15:51:14","slug":"wanted-sex-offender-found-in-saint-jerome-que-police-thank-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840644\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted sex offender found in Saint-J\u00e9r\u00f4me, Que., police thank public"},"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 1 minute<\/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>Wanted sex offender Mario Charette, 65, was arrested on Friday night in Saint-J\u00e9r\u00f4me, Que., about 45 kilometres northwest of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Charette was apprehended as part of an investigation led by\u00a0the Sex Offender Monitoring Team of the Service de police de la Ville de Montr\u00e9al\u00a0(SPVM).  <\/p>\n<p>The police put out a call to the public on Wednesday to help locate Charette, who allegedly violated his supervision conditions with Correctional Service Canada (CSC).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The SPVM spared no effort in finding him and thanks the citizens whose information contributed to his location,&#8221; the police wrote in a press release. <\/p>\n<p>This is not he first time Charette has been accused of dodging\u00a0<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>Police say Charette is now being detained by CSC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute 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-840644","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\/840644","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=840644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840644\/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=840644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}