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Apr 27, 2022 12:22 AM - The Canadian Press

Two B.C. men included in a list released today of Canada's 25 most wanted fugitives

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Two men from BC are on a list released today of Canada's 25 most wanted fugitives. (Photo - BOLO)

Two men from BC are on a list released today of Canada's 25 most wanted fugitives.

36 year old Gene Karl Lahrkamp is number two on the list supplied by the Bolo, or be on the lookout program.

A 100,000 dollar reward has been issued for the man wanted in connection with the death of former Abbotsford gangster Jimi Sandhu, who Crimestoppers says was found dead near a villa in Rawai Beach in Phuket, Thailand, in February.

Also on the list is 61-year-old John Norman MacKenzie, a man convicted of second-degree murder, armed robbery and other offences who escaped from the Mission Institution shortly after he was transferred there in 2018.

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