29-05-2025
Known sex offender re-arrested in Vancouver, accused of indecent act
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Vancouver police have arrested a high-risk sex offender who has been the subject of multiple warnings after he was accused of masturbating in a lane and looking into houses on Wednesday.
Skylar Wayne Pelletier, 25, has been charged with committing an indecent act.
Police arrested him near Woodland Drive and East Broadway after a woman reported Pelletier's alleged activities.
Pelletier is a convicted sex offender currently serving a five-year long-term supervision order on convictions for sexual assault, assault and breaking and entering.
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In 2019, a B.C. provincial court judge declined to declare Pelletier a dangerous offender, but agreed to the supervision order, accepting testimony from a forensic psychologist that he was 'treatable' but remained a risk.
'If the accused does not receive close community supervision and treatment specific to his needs, there is a substantial risk that the accused will re-offend,' provincial court Judge Gregory Rideout ruled.
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Pelletier was previously arrested in March 2024, just days after Vancouver police issued a warning that he would be living in the community.
At the time, police warned he posed 'a risk of significant harm to women.'
He was also the subject of a similar warning in 2021.
