The prison yard of the Orsainville Detention Centre near Quebec City is shown on Saturday June 7, 2014. Quebec Provincial Police say three inmates have escaped from the Orsainville Detention Centre using a helicopter. The escape from Orsainville is among soem recent escapes from Quebec prisons. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Francis Vachon.
March 24, 2015 - 1:17 PM
MONTREAL - Quebec authorities are searching for Francis Boucher, who walked out of a Montreal jail on Monday while still serving a sentence for uttering death threats against police officers. Here is a list of some recent escapes from institutions in the province:
March 23, 2015: Francis Boucher, 39, leaves the Bordeaux jail less than halfway through his 117-day sentence for uttering death threats against police officers. The circumstances surrounding the escape are still nebulous.
January 2015: Shamy Saint-Jean, 19, gets out of the Riviere-des-Prairies detention centre after posing as his brother, who was scheduled to be released. Saint-Jean turns himself in to Montreal police accompanied by his lawyer in mid-February.
June 7, 2014: Three inmates use a helicopter to escape from the Orsainville detention centre near Quebec City. They are caught two weeks later.
Sept. 14, 2013: Former Hells Angels member Rene Charlebois escapes from the Montee Saint-Francois minimum-security federal prison north of Montreal. He is found dead a few weeks later.
March 17, 2013: Two prisoners bust out of a detention centre in Saint-Jerome after a chopper is hijacked at gunpoint. They and two accomplices are arrested within hours.
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