The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 22

A22 The Province Tuesday, January 14, 1992 "Diie saritelheD IhairaGflift Bs Lbaik ditd L7DtlroD With a price on his head, cops think he's in love criminal might try to lay low. net that was closing in on him. The Spectator There's also a new $1,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. Boomer is known for his trademark satchel, his silver handgun and his clever use of disguises and assumed identities. Police learned his true identity and his link to Grenier last summer.

Grenier went west with him, and they married. But she knew him by one of his aliases, and knew nothing of his criminal exploits. Her father, Leo Tessier, said no one had ever made her so happy. But when the Spectator wrote about her father's fears for her safety in September, Boomer cut her loose, sending her back to a former apartment with a note insisting on her innocence. His suspected reappearance in Ontario, where's he wanted for more than 30 robberies, has intensified the hunt.

Robberies in four Ontario cities last month all fit his pattern. And the mysterious delivery of a portable two-way radio to Grenier's family home, just days before she returned for Christmas, convinced investigators he's in Ontario. It appeared one evening at the rear door, with instructions and a small gift. But that daring move has also convinced police that the hardened career criminal, who's lived a life on the run, is in love. In a bid to flush him out while he's still here, wanted posters will be distributed in variety stores, motels, bars, hostels, flop houses, and other places where a homeless HAMILTON, Ont.

Boomer's back. But did he come for money or love? Charles Warren Boomer, 54, suspected of being the shoulder-bag bandit, the country's most successful bank robber, is back on his home turf, say regional police. He's busy robbing banks after plying his trade for nine months out west and in the United States. But he's also made some daring attempts to contact his former companion, Rachelle Grenier of Welland. He was forced to abandon Gren-Jrv- ier who operates at the level of a young teen because of deafness and other disabilities in B.C.

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