High-risk offender Randall Hopley re-arrested hours after prison release

Vancouver police re-arrested high-risk offender Randall Hopley on Thursday, just hours after he obtained statutory release from prison.

Randall Hopley, who police describe as a high-risk sex offender, was arrested in Vancouver hours after being released from prison Thursday.

The Vancouver Police Department said a Canada-wide warrant was issued for Hopley after he “refused the direction of his parole officer” by leaving the halfway house he was ordered to live in after being released from Mission Institution.

Just over a year ago, Hopley was sentence to 29 months in prison for breaching the terms of a long-term supervision order. After credit for time served, his sentence worked out to 18 months – making him eligible for statutory release after 12 months.

The conviction on the two breaches came after Hopley cut off his ankle monitor and fled his halfway house, sparking a 10-day-long manhunt that ended when he turned himself in, saying he was cold.

Hopley – who has a history of sexual offences – was placed on long-term supervision after serving his sentence for abducting a three-year-old boy in the southeastern B.C. community of Sparwood in 2011.