By paNOW Staff

Six months later, still no sign of sexual assault suspect

Dec 30, 2014 | 4:42 PM

A man wanted for the rape of a young girl is still on the run more than six months after mounties issued a warrant for his arrest.

Police say 48-year-old Vincent Alex Desjarlais of Kylemore, Sask. could be anywhere in Manitoba or Saskatchewan. He is belived to be in hiding.

Wadena RCMP first got a report from a health care worker on May 11 that a girl under the age of 16 had been sexually assaulted.

Charges against Desjarlais were laid about a month later.

He’s accused of two counts of sexual assault, one count of sexual interference of a person under the age of 16, procuring miscarriage and assault.  

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Desjarlais is known to have connections to the Long Plain First Nation in Manitoba and Punnichy, Yellow Quill First Nation, Saskatoon and Regina in Saskatchewan. But, in a media release, police emphasized that he could be anywhere in either province. 

Desjarlais is described as a brown-eyed aboriginal male with black hair, possibly kept in a ponytail. He is five feet, 10 inches tall and weighs 176 pounds. 

Desjarlais has a number of tattoos, including a circle with feathers extending down on his right outer arm, an eagle head and flower with red centre on his left arm and a small red star with a black outline on his neck.

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