Sex offender Randall Hopley re-arrested in B.C., on same day he was freed from prison
Police say Hopley had been released from Mission Institution on Thursday morning and ordered to live at a Vancouver halfway house.
But he is alleged to have refused the directions of his parole officer and left the halfway house.
Police say Hopley was arrested after a Canada-wide warrant was issued, and he remains in custody.
Hopley obtained statutory release after being sentenced last May to 29 months in jail, minus credit for time served, having pleaded guilty to breaching conditions of a long-term supervision order on two occasions.
He previously completed a six-year prison term for the 2011 abduction of a three-year-old boy in southeastern B.C.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 22, 2025.
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