Ryan Alexander Jenkins in Canada?

     Background:Ryan Alexander Jenkins, 32, was a contestant on the VH1 reality TV show “Megan Wants a Millionaire.” Police said Wednesday that they want to question him as a “person of interest” in the death of Jasmine Fiore, 28, a former model whose nude body was found over the weekend stuffed into a suitcase in a Buena Park, Calif., trash bin.

    Tip:A county sheriff’s office in Washington state said Thursday that a former reality television contestant wanted for questioning in the death of his ex-wife has apparently escaped into Canada.

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     The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office in northwest Washington said deputies received word Wednesday that Jenkins, who is Canadian, could be in the county. They found his car and an empty boat trailer at a marina in Blaine.

     They had a report that a man matching his description arrived by boat at Point Roberts, U.S. territory about 10 miles away at the tip of a peninsula reachable by land only from Canada. Authorities believe Jenkins walked across the border to British Columbia.

     After taping for the VH1 series finished, Jenkins met Fiore in Las Vegas casino in March and the two soon got married, said Fiore’s mother, Lisa Lepore.

     But in May, “they had a big blowout,” Lepore said. “She had the marriage annulled.”

     At least one actor who appeared on “Millionaire” with Jenkins at a mansion in the Hollywood Hills was shocked by the latest developments and remembered a suave bachelor who grew in confidence as taping progressed.

     Jenkins earned the nickname “Smooth Operator” because of “his cheeky cockiness. And I mean that in a friendly way,” said Rob Locke, who played the host, a butler named Niles.

     “We were all under the impression that he was single. Then I saw on Facebook that he got married and there were photos of him and his wife. My personal observation was, ‘Wow, that was quick,’” Locke said, adding that taping ended in March.

     Fiore’s mother said her daughter and Jenkins had been fighting after a quickie Las Vegas wedding, and that he was jealous of her ex-boyfriends.

     Court records show that Jenkins was charged in June in Clark County, Nev., with a misdemeanor count of “battery constituting domestic violence” for hitting Fiore in the arm and will be tried in December.

     Jenkins also has a criminal history in his hometown of Calgary, Canada. He was sentenced to 15 months of probation in January 2007 on an unspecified assault charge, according to the Alberta, Canada Ministry of Justice. No further details were available.

      Neal Tomlinson, a partner at the law firm representing Jenkins in the Nevada case, declined to comment and declined to say if his firm was representing Jenkins in the current matter.

     Fiore was last seen alive with Jenkins at a poker game in San Diego. Jenkins reported her missing Saturday night to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, police said.

     It’s still not clear how Fiore died, although a preliminary coroner’s report indicated she was strangled.

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August 27, 2009  Author:   Posted in: Supre Star, View

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