SASKATOON — Caroline Jean Marie Sutherland is wanted by police for being unlawfully at large, and Crime Stoppers released her photo saying her last known location was Saskatoon.
Sutherland, 36, was serving a federal sentence of two years, six months, and 24 days for aggravated assault, kidnapping, and unlawful confinement in connection with a street gang related attack in Saskatoon.
Her sentence stems from an August 2020 incident in the 400 block of Avenue G South, where Saskatoon police found a 26-year-old man zip-tied to a chair and suffering from extensive injuries. Police said the assault was targeted and gang-motivated.
Court records describe the victim being pistol whipped, stabbed 17 times, burned with a meth pipe, beaten with a bottle, and left with gang initials carved into his chest. The assault lasted several hours.
“A gun was held to his head, with the trigger pulled, and a click was heard,” read parole documents. “The victim's affiliation with a rival street gang was the reason for the assaults. After your group left the residence, police attended the residence and found the victim still zip tied to a chair with a kitchen knife sticking out of his leg.”
Sutherland was released to a halfway house in February 2025 but her release was suspended about a month later after Correctional Service Canada (CSC) received intelligence that she had breached several court-ordered conditions, including a no contact order and restrictions on associating with gang members.
According to parole documents, Sutherland admitted to using methamphetamine shortly after her release and acknowledged contacting a gang member she was prohibited from communicating with. She had also been involved in three-way phone calls with incarcerated offenders, allegedly to facilitate drug activity between prison units. CSC suspended her release in March 2025.
Parole records show Sutherland has a long history of non-compliance, gang involvement, and substance abuse. While incarcerated, she completed several correctional programs and earned her high school equivalency, but her behaviour both in custody and on release raised ongoing concerns. CSC assessed her as a high-risk, high-needs offender with low reintegration potential.
She has an extensive criminal record, say parole documents. She has convictions for offences related to obstruction, property/theft, fraud, non-compliance, weapons, robbery, assault causing bodily harm, forcible confinement, breaches of trust, and drugs. In addition, numerous of her charges received a stay of proceedings.
“Reports indicate that most, if not all your offending, was gang related,” say parole documents, adding that she is an active gang member.
Sutherland has a “multitude of Gladue factors,” reveal the documents.
“Of importance is that you have experienced much loss in your life, including the death of loved ones, material/physical possessions, loss of Indigenous spirituality, loss of culture/language and loss of freedom.”
Her family members attended residential schools, she wasn’t raised in her culture, witnessed and was a victim of violence as a child. She also experienced abuse. She left home in her early teens and started using drugs at a young age to cope with trauma.
While in prison, Sutherland was involved in a gang related assault on another inmate.
“You were observed wearing gang colours in a lanyard and posing in photographs along with your gang affiliates, even though you deny any ties to this specific gang. You were involved in an assault on another offender and observed on closed circuit television (CCTV) 'keeping six' and purposely blocking a door during the commission of the assault,” say parole documents. “While in the maximum-security unit, you were deemed to be involved in an assault of another offender and moved to a secure unit, however you denied your involvement in the incident, submitting a rebuttal.”
After her statutory release, Sutherland was found “dressing in gang colours and acting ‘solid.’”
Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers is asking anyone with information about Sutherland’s location to contact police, call 1-800-222-8477, or submit a tip online.
