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Search for missing Quebec senior involved in Amber Alert enters fifth day

Sûreté du Québec‏ are now looking for Yvon Lacasse, 71, was in the car Ugo Fredette stole, Friday, Sept 15, 2017. Sûreté du Québec‏

The search for a missing Quebec man whose vehicle was linked to an Amber Alert case is entering its fifth day.

There has been no word from Yvon Lacasse since his car was stolen late Thursday at a rest area in Lachute, Que.

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Police found the missing boy in Lacasse’s stolen vehicle on Friday southwest of Renfrew, Ont. and arrested the child’s father, who remains in an Ottawa hospital in a coma according to his lawyer.

The father was charged with second-degree murder on Monday in the slaying of the boy’s mother.

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A Quebec provincial police helicopter and officers are focusing their search for Lacasse today on a roughly 100 kilometre stretch of highway between Val-d’Or and Rouyn-Noranda in northwestern Quebec.

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Lacasse, 71, is described as bald with brown eyes, five feet, five inches tall, and weighs roughly 100 pounds.

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