New Brunswick Highway Patrol

In July 1988 the recently elected government of Premier Frank McKenna announced that the responsibilities of the NBHP would be contracted to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police "J" Division.

Emmanuel Aucoin who was shot March 8, 1987 on the side of the Hanwell Rd (Route 640) by American felon Anthony Romeo.

Aucoin had stopped a rented Porsche with United States license plates being driven by Romeo on a remote stretch of Route 640 between the communities of Yoho and Hanwell.

Romeo was in Canada trying to evade law enforcement authorities in the United States where a warrant for his arrest had been issued in New York.

At his murder trial, the court records show that Romeo discarded his weapons into the nearby woods and then fled across the border to the United States, crossing at the Vanceboro port of entry.