A 39-year-old fugitive is back in custody.
In a news release, Vancouver police said that Tony Okanase was arrested without incident in the Joyce-Collingwood neighbourhood on August 13.
He was captured one day after the high-risk sex offender went missing from a Vancouver halfway house following his release from Mountain Institution.
According to an earlier police news release, Okanase has a “history of violent sexual offences against strangers dating back to 2003”.
He was wanted on a Canadawide warrant.
The arrest came after a community-policing volunteer spotted Okanase and reported this to the Vancouver Police Department.
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