The 17-month search for a man wanted for his role in a fatal 2020 Calgary shooting has ended in Upstate New York.
Joseph Chlala pleaded guilty last year to a charge of manslaughter in the death of Christian Navos but failed to show up for his March 2023 sentencing, leading to a Canada-wide warrant for his arrest.
Chlala, 23, was arrested Monday by Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police in Akwesasne and is now back in Canadian police custody, Calgary police said in a release.
Navos, a 32-year-old Edmonton resident, was fatally shot in his parked Jeep in the southeast community of Legacy on July 14, 2020.
Court heard Chlala, then 19, and a male teen approached Navos’s vehicle after a meeting had been arranged and the teen shot the victim seven times.
Chlala was charged with first-degree murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
He was released on bail in December 2020 to live in Ottawa with his grandparents prior to his sentencing.
The shooter, who was 15 at the time, later received the maximum seven-year youth sentence available for second-degree murder, including three years of community supervision.
Chlala was also wanted on a Canada-wide warrant related to a separate June 2023 Edmonton homicide after a 21-year-old man was found dead in an alley there.