A Brantford man who was declared a sex offender in South Carolina in 2004 is in the midst of an extradition process by the US but, meanwhile, has been charged with new crimes here.
Karl Alexander Montour, 67, was convicted in South Carolina of three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 11.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison but was serving the remainder of his sentence with an electronic monitor when, in May 2020, he was able to remove the GPS device and leave the area, according to the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Sorry Services.
By August 2020, that department was actively searching for Montour, along with a second registered sex offender who was on the run, and asked for the public to watch for them. They were both accused of willful violation of a term or condition of electronic monitoring.
Since being in Brantford, Montour has been charged with additional crimes, according to court documents, including assault, sexual assault, threatening death and harassing a woman between August 2021 and July 2023.
While the Canadian Department of Justice declined to provide details on Montour’s extradition process, they noted there are three steps that must be taken in order for someone to be successfully extradited to another extradition partner country: The Department of Justice issues the authority to proceed, a judge of the Superior Court of Justice hears the case, and the Minister of Justice makes a final decision.
Montour has been in both Ontario Court for a bail hearing recently and in Superior Court to set a date for his case.
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