‘High-risk’ sex offender back in Vancouver police custody

Hayden McCorriston was the subject of a public warning by the Vancouver Police Department on April 17, 2025.

Police in Vancouver say a high-risk sex offender who was the subject of a Canada-wide warrant after he disappeared from his halfway house last week has been taken into custody.

The Vancouver Police Department says 30-year-old Hayden McCorriston was arrested Monday afternoon near Granville and Robson streets in the city’s downtown core.

Officers with the department’s chronic offender unit were acting on a tip from the public when they located and arrested the man, the VPD said in a statement.

Police had issued a public bulletin about McCorriston on Thursday, warning that he had been released from custody to live at a Vancouver halfway house after serving time for multiple sexual assaults on strangers.

In the warning, the department said McCorriston was at “a high risk to commit further physical and sexual violence.”

One day later, McCorriston left the halfway house on Homer Street and travelled to the Downtown Eastside, where police “believe he violated the conditions of his release and took deliberate steps to avoid being located,” the statement said.

The alleged parole violation triggered a warrant for McCorriston’s arrest and a second public warning in as many days.

McCorriston was taken to jail Monday afternoon, where he remains in custody, police said.

McCorriston was convicted of sexually assaulting multiple women in December 2022, and was recently granted a statutory release after serving two thirds of his 38-month sentence.