SASKATOON — Police are searching for a federally sentenced offender the Parole Board deemed an “undue risk” to society, citing a rapid return to crime, substance abuse, and gang involvement.
Alexa Lariviere, 28, is wanted for being unlawfully at large while on parole. Her last known address was Saskatoon, according to Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers.
Parole documents detail a violent incident in 2020, where Lariviere forced a victim into the trunk of a vehicle, sprayed pepper spray at her, struck her with a tire jack, and confined her at a remote cabin.
When Lariviere was driving the victim to the remote cabin, the victim was able to stick her foot out of the vehicle and security at a First Nation COVID checkpoint saw this and called police, but the vehicle continued on. When the victim made noise and screamed from the trunk to be let out, Lariviere folded down the backseat, pepper spayed her and ripped off her shirt and bra.
The victim jumped from the moving vehicle and ran, but Lariviere chased her down, hit her with a tire jack, and forced her back inside the vehicle. An accomplice then sat beside the victim in the vehicle, holding a knife to her.
They proceeded to a cabin. Police arrived after the checkpoint call, but Lariviere told officers the person in her trunk was her boyfriend and they were just “playing around.” Misled, the police left, thinking nothing was wrong, the documents indicate..
Lariviere and her accomplice argued about what to do with the victim. The accomplice left and drove away. The victim seized the opportunity and was able to call police, who found her at the cabin. Lariviere was located the next day hiding at a home where the vehicle was parked.
Lariviere’s lengthy criminal record includes violent offences, weapons charges, vehicle theft, and forcible confinement, according to parole documents. Her initial federal sentence of almost four years was for a series of violent crimes between 2020 and 2022, including assault with a weapon, forcible confinement, uttering threats, flight from police, and unauthorized possession of a firearm in a vehicle.
While incarcerated, Lariviere completed multiple rehabilitation programs, but relapsed soon after release, say the parole documents. Granted day parole to a treatment centre in May 2024, she tested positive for methamphetamine, cocaine, and alcohol within months. After being released again on statutory release in October 2024, she relapsed within days, failed to provide a urinalysis, and fled.
She was arrested in December 2024 in an inter-provincial police chase. The pursuit involved multiple police jurisdictions, an Emergency Response Team, K-9 Units, and a helicopter. Parole documents describe it as a “significant police event,” and that she was “taken into custody at gunpoint once the vehicle was disabled.”
At a suspension review in April 2025, Lariviere, who was arrested with gang members, claimed she was no longer a gang member.
When previously revoking her release, the Parole Board said her risk to the public was “undue.” They said she had “concerning and persistent patterns of noncompliance,” and immediate returns to substance abuse under stress, and association with gang members.
“Your actions reflected impulsivity and lack of consequential thinking,” the board said.
She was released on statutory release again. Canada’s law, by Parliament, requires that federal offenders who have served two-thirds of their sentence are released from prison under supervision. This is called statutory release.
Lariviere's last known address was Saskatoon but her whereabouts are currently unknown. Anyone with information is urged to call their local police at 310-RCMP (7267) or contact Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online.
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