Man, on Most Wanted List in Canada, who visited SVG, apprehended in Oman

A MAN who was number three on Canada’s most wanted list in 2022 and who hid in St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) for part of 2023, has been nabbed in Oman.

The man, Cody Casey, became wanted by the Van- couver Police Department when, in April 2022, weeks away from facing trial on 17 drug and firearms offences, he cut off his court-man- dated ankle monitor and fled the country.

Casey, who was part on an investigation that spanned 14 countries around the world, was arrested in the Middle East on October, 5, 2024, by Royal Oman Police, and formally returned to Van- couver by VPD officers on April 24,2025.

Around June 2023, a poster making the rounds on social media and bearing the markings of Canada’s Be on the Look Out (BOLO) Programme, put Casey, 36 at the time, in SVG.

The Vancouver Police Department partnered with the Bolo Programme, a national group that offers large rewards to tipsters who provide information that results in the arrests of wanted fugitives. The Bolo Programme offered a reward of up to $100,000 for any information leading to the arrest of Casey.That was the first time Vancouver police teamed up with the Bolo Programme.

Someone who hung out with Casey while he was in SVG described him as a “cool” guy who was popular with the girls. He is alleged to have resided somewhere in the Queen’s Drive area and loved partying and having fun.

Casey is alleged to have been running a drug oper- ation in Metro Vancouver that saw the seizure of more than 20 kilograms of fen- tanyl, nearly 10 kilograms of methamphetamine, three firearms, a live grenade and over $300,000 in cash.

“This was a complex, multi-jurisdictional in- vestigation that required extraordinary collaboration and perseverance,” Inspec- tor Phil Heard, command- ing officer of Vancouver Police Department’s Organized Crime Section told reporters in his country.

He added, “We are grateful to our partners across Canada and abroad, including the RCMP, the Bolo Program, and the Royal Oman Police, for their unwavering support in bringing Cody Casey back to face justice.”

Casey has appeared in BC Provincial Court and remains in custody.