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Police have caught up to a violent offender who fled from a halfway house in 2023, and has been living under a false name ever since.
The 30-year-old was serving a 10-year, five-month jail sentence for multiple crimes, including second-degree murder in Winnipeg, when he obtained statutory release in March 2023 and was ordered to live at a halfway house in New Westminster.
At the time of his release, he was also serving a four-year sentence for aggravated assaults on two corrections officers.
The suspect cannot be identified by name because he was convicted as a youth.
The inmate disappeared from his halfway house within weeks of his release, and he’s been wanted Canada-wide since May 2023.
According to the Vancouver Police, he was arrested recently by the department’s Fugitive Team in the Downtown Eastside, where he was hiding since his disappearance. He was working part-time as a kitchen staff member in a shelter under a false name.
Investigators from VPD’s Fugitive Team, deployed as part of Task Force Barrage, took the violent offender back into custody on Saturday, near Gore Avenue and Alexander Street.