Police Say There Will Be No Charges for Helping Ryan Jenkins Across Border

VANCOUVER, B.C. — No charges will be laid against anyone who may have helped fugitive U.S. reality TV contestant Ryan Jenkins in his run home from California to Canada.

Jenkins is the only suspect in the bloody slaying of his swimsuit-model ex-wife in San Diego, but RCMP say there isn't enough evidence to charge anyone who may have helped the former Calgary resident cross illegally into Canada.

A California police officer says it would be up to U.S. federal prosecutors to look at laying charges against anyone involved in Canada and so far, he hasn't heard that's happening.

The RCMP said previously they were investigating whether someone could be charged as an accessory for Jenkins' failure to report his return to Canada.

A mystery woman checked Jenkins into a motel in Hope, B.C., east of Vancouver, last week while he waited in the car.

"There is no evidence to support criminal charges against anyone who came into contact with Mr. Jenkins including the woman who dropped him off at the motel on Thursday August 20, 2009," Cpl. Norm Massie of the RCMP's border integrity unit said Friday in a news release.

The motel manager said the woman was driving a Chrysler PT Cruiser with an Alberta licence plate.

Police have never identified the woman but said they have been in contact with her.

Speculation about who she is led to a media frenzy, with some journalists at first identifying a Calgary model who was Jenkins' girlfriend. When that claim didn't check out, they turned to a woman in Vancouver said to be Jenkins' half-sister.

Jasmine Fiore's nude, mutilated body was found stuffed in a suitcase in a suburban Los Angeles dumpster on Aug. 15.

Hours later, Jenkins reported her missing, telling a West Hollywood sheriff's deputy that his wife had disappeared after running errands and that he hadn't seen her since the night before.

U.S. authorities said that hours before she died, Fiore was chatting on her cell phone with an ex-boyfriend - a conversation that police say threw Jenkins into a jealous rage.

Witnesses said Ryan Jenkins argued with Fiore in the lobby of the San Diego Hilton after leaving a poker tournament, telling her "you're making a fool of me in front of my friends," said Buena Park police Sgt. Frank Nunes.

Nunes said family and friends told authorities Jenkins and Fiore - who were married in a quickie Las Vegas wedding in March - had a volatile relationship and had cheated on each other.

"It all boils down to a domestic violence situation that went way out of hand as a result of jealousy," Nunes said late Thursday.

Police believe Jenkins set out on a 1,600-kilometre odyssey to Canada, eventually taking his speed boat to Point Roberts, Wash., a finger of American territory jutting into the waters by the B.C. Ferry Terminal.

From Point Roberts, they believe he easily walked into Canada.

The boat was discovered Aug. 19, the day California authorities named Jenkins a person of interest in Fiore's murder.

Jenkins was next seen Aug. 20 by a hotel manager in Hope sitting in the PT Cruiser while the woman checked him into the hotel. She left shortly afterwards and was not seen again.

The next day, last Friday, the warrant was issued.

On Sunday, Jenkins' body was found hanging from a clothes rack in the hotel.

"Consultation with lawyers and Crown has determined that there are no applicable criminal charges surrounding the Canadian investigation of Ryan Jenkins," Massie said.

U.S. investigators have released some of the details of Jenkins' preparations to flee.

Buena Park police Sgt. Bill Kohanek said in an interview Friday that investigators are waiting for test results from the "many, many blood samples" taken from Fiore's white Mercedes, found earlier this week.

"There was a good amount of blood splatter and smearing around the vehicle, which indicated a pretty violent confrontation," he said.

Kohanek said investigators are "doing quite a successful job" of following Jenkins' movements after Fiore was killed.

"He took money out, he did vehicle repairs, he placed new tires on his SUV that was later driven to Washington. He picked up dry cleaning."

Jenkins also sent a courier package to a Las Vegas jeweller which included a man's wedding ring, a woman's wedding ring and several other rings believed to have belonged to Fiore. The rings were to be cleaned.

Phone records show Jenkins made many phone calls to people he knew before he left.

When asked if these were the actions of a suicidal man, Kohanek replied Jenkins was caught in a pressure cooker of media and police pursuit.

"I think he probably felt cornered," Kohanek said. "Some of the details of the gruesome murder were coming out, so I think there were a lot more people that were not willing to help him, when they were starting to see the significance of this crime."

"I think he just met the end of his rope."

Jenkins Power Dialed after Fiore's Death

TMZ.com- Here's the rundown: Buena Park police think Ryan Jenkins severely beat Jasmine after they left the San Diego Hilton hotel at 2:30 AM on the 14th.

Jenkins was seen entering the L'Auberge Del Mar hotel in San Diego at 4:30 AM alone. Cops believe Jasmine was taken into the hotel through a back patio entrance, which does not have a security camera.

A small amount of blood and hair was found on the patio. Cops say they never saw Jenkins leave the hotel with the suitcase Jasmine was found in. They think Ryan put her in the suitcase and took her out through the patio, because he was finally seen leaving the hotel without her or the suitcase at 9:20 AM. It's unclear if Jasmine died in the hotel or in the car.

Cops say Jenkins made around 30 phone calls and texts between the time he left San Diego at 9:20 AM and arrived in Los Angeles at 5 PM. During this time, cops believe Ryan drove to Corona, pulled off-road and removed her teeth and fingertips -- then dropped her body off in Buena Park before driving to Los Angeles. Cops won't say who he called and texted.

AND GET THIS: Cops say once Ryan arrived in L.A., he sent his and Jasmine's wedding rings to Las Vegas via Fed-Ex with instructions to be cleaned. Cops say he never picked up the rings, which are now in the possession of the Buena Park Police Department.

'Person of Interest' Questioned in Model's Slaying

SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- Canadian authorities said Thursday they talked with the woman believed to have helped reality TV star-turned-fugitive Ryan Jenkins check into the motel where he later took his own life.

Jenkins slipped across the U.S.-Canada border while being pursued by police for the slaying of his wife, model Jasmine Fiore, authorities said. He was found hanged in his motel room Sunday in Hope, British Columbia, authorities said.

CNN has not independently confirmed reports that the marriage was annulled.

Cpl. Norm Massie, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, declined to name the woman, but said she could face charges for helping Jenkins enter Canada illegally.

"We know who that person is," Massie said. "They are cooperating with the investigation."

Canadian media interviewed eyewitnesses at the motel, who described a blond woman driving a silver PT Cruiser with Alberta license plates who helped Jenkins check into the motel.

Massie said authorities located the PT Cruiser in the case but declined to say where the car was and who owned the vehicle.

Fiore's body was found stuffed in a suitcase on August 15 in a Dumpster in West Hollywood, California. Her teeth and fingers had been removed, police said.

Jenkins, an actor who starred on the VH1 reality show "Meghan Wants a Millionaire," was charged in connection with Fiore's slaying.

The discovery of Fiore's missing white Mercedes-Benz on Wednesday may help authorities piece together the circumstances of her murder.

According to Buena Park, California, police Sgt. William Kohaneck, a tipster noticed the car abandoned in a West Hollywood parking lot and called police.

The car was found about a mile from where the couple lived, Kohaneck said. Forensic testing on the car should be completed by Friday.

"We are hoping to find out whether this car was used to transport the deceased or was the scene of this gruesome murder," he said. Fiore's fingers and teeth have not been recovered, he said.

New Gross Details on This Tragic Slaying..

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- An arrest warrant for murder has been issued for the ex-husband of a former swimsuit model whose nude body was found over the weekend, Orange County police said Thursday.

The body of Jasmine Fiore, 28, was found Saturday stuffed into a suitcase inside a Dumpster behind an apartment complex in Buena Park, just outside Anaheim in Orange County. Her teeth had been extracted and her fingers removed.

Fiore lived in Los Angeles and was last seen alive Friday in San Diego at a poker game with her ex-husband, Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a reality TV contestant.

"We believe he has crossed into Canada," U.S. Marshals Chief Inspector Thomas Hession told reporters. "He needs to understand that he is now officially wanted. We won't stop looking for him."

Prosecutors requested bail be set at $10 million.

Wednesday night, officers from the Blaine Police Department in northern Washington recovered a black 2003 BMW X5 SUV outfitted with a boat trailer and a boat belonging to Jenkins in Point Roberts, just south of the Canadian border, said Buena Park, California, Chief of Police Tom Monson.

"It's now our belief that he has now crossed the border on foot," he said, adding that authorities were working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to find him.

Monson appealed to the public for help in locating a white 2007 Mercedes Benz CLS550 with paper license tags also linked to the suspect.

Hession cautioned anyone who might be considering helping the suspect flee that doing so would leave them open to charges of aiding and abetting a fugitive.

"Ryan Jenkins is an animal," said Robert Hasman, a family friend who said Fiore had been his girlfriend for 2 1/2 years.

"What he has done to Jasmine is unspeakable. It's just not right." He described her as "a beautiful person who was a very caring individual and a lot of the information that you are seeing in the news is not true."

He would not specify to what he was referring.

Buena Park Police Lt. Steve Holliday said Fiore's fingers and teeth had been removed. Asked whether that was done to keep her body from being identified, he said, "It can be inferred that way."

"It appears to be a gruesome attempt to conceal her identity," concurred Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas in an interview with CNN's "Larry King Live." Jenkins is the sole suspect in the killing, authorities said. "There is no indication that anybody else might be involved," he said.

Jenkins is believed to be armed, Rackauckas said. "There's a handgun missing from his apartment, which is the last place he was before he fled," he said.

Jenkins matched the description of a man seen driving a boat Wednesday in Blaine Marina off northwest Washington, the Whatcom County Sheriff's Office said.

Blaine, Washington, borders Canada.

Authorities searched the area and found Jenkins' black SUV with an empty boat trailer at the Blaine Marina, police said.

Jenkins reported Fiore missing Saturday night to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, authorities said.

The body was identified as Fiore on Monday. While the cause of death has not been confirmed, a preliminary coroner's report indicates she was strangled.

Jenkins and Fiore reportedly had been married a few weeks before getting the union annulled.

According to court records in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jenkins was charged in June with battery for allegedly striking Fiore in the arm with his fist. And in 2007, Jenkins pleaded guilty in Calgary, Alberta, to assault in a separate case. He was sentenced to 15 months probation, ordered to undergo counseling for domestic violence and sex addiction and to stay away from the person involved, according to court records.

Jenkins, who appeared on VH1 shows, "Megan Wants a Millionaire" and "I Love Money 3," is from Calgary.

51 Minds, the production company of "Megan Wants a Millionaire," said Thursday in a written statement that it "was not aware of Ryan Jenkins' record when it cast him.

"The company did have in place what it thought was a thorough vetting process that involved complete background checks by an outside company for all contestants on its shows," it said. "Clearly, the process did not work properly in this case. 51 Minds is investigating what went wrong and taking steps to ensure that this sort of lapse never occurs again."

In a statement, VH1 said it has postponed any airings of "Megan Wants a Millionaire" because of the "tragic situation."