Police have issued a public safety warning about a high-profile sex offender that has been released from prison to live in Vancouver.
Randall Hopley last gained the public’s attention when he cut off his monitoring anklet and disappeared while on parole, only to be captured in Vancouver and sent back to prison.
He was the subject of a 10-day manhunt in November 2023, which ended after he was found standing at the locked door of the Vancouver Police Department annex on East Cordova Street near Main Street.
Hopley was behind bars after receiving a six-year sentence for abducting a three-year-old boy in southeastern B.C. in 2011, and was released in 2018 to a Vancouver halfway house under a 10-year supervision order.
Police say Hopley, who’s now 60 years old, has been freed on statutory release after serving two-thirds of his sentence.
The Vancouver Police Department says there are “compelling reasons” to warn that he poses a high risk to the public and could breach his conditions.
Hopley, who is five feet nine inches and 150 pounds, must abide by several conditions like not being around places where children under the age of 16 might be, and not having direct or indirect contact with his victims or their family members.
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