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Vancouver police say sex offender Randall Hopley arrested

Nov 14, 2023 | 8:28 AM

VANCOUVER, BC – Police in Vancouver say wanted sex offender Randall Hopley has been arrested.

A statement from the Vancouver Police Department said Hopley was picked up at about 6 a.m. on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, in the city’s Downtown Eastside.

Police said Hopley is now in custody.

The arrest ends a 10-day search for Hopley, who walked away from his Vancouver halfway house on November 4., and cut off his electronic monitoring device a short time later, according to police.

At the time, police said they believed the 58-year-old was worried about an upcoming court appearance and feared he would be returned to custody. Hopley had completed a six-year prison term for the 2011 abduction of a three-year-old boy in southeastern B.C.

He was released in 2018 and was living at the halfway house under a 10-year long-term supervision order but was arrested in January for allegedly violating conditions of the order.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 14, 2023.

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