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Last summer, Norman Rosenblum returned to Canada after having been a fugitive for 18 years. He had skipped out on a sentence he was serving for having brokered, along with members of the Hells Angels and the Montreal Mafia, one of the biggest cocaine deals ever investigated in this country.

He knew he was a wanted man and that Canadian authorities had been advised he would be arriving in June last year. He expected to be placed in shackles the second he crossed the border but no one resembling a police officer was present when he did.

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“Instead, you were welcomed into Canada with no constraints. You started a new life under your real name receiving welfare while you applied for government identifications such as a health card,” the Parole Board of Canada reveals in a written decision it made on Friday to revoke the day parole it granted to Rosenblum, now 65, back in May 1999.

Rosenblum managed to live in Canada as a free man for seven months until the Gatineau police approached him on Jan. 22, while looking for a suspect who resembled him. When they asked Rosenblum to identify himself, he did so willingly. It was only then that authorities suddenly realized Rosenblum was a wanted man for having failed to serve his sentence.