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Vancouver Police Find Wanted Sex Offender Jason Bresnahan Who Failed To Return To Halfway House

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 23 Feb, 2015 01:22 PM
    Vancouver police have located a high-risk sex offender who failed to return to his halfway house.
     
    Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Bresnahan was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for being unlawfully at large.
     
    Police say Bresnahan went missing on Saturday night, and officers appealed to the public in a search for him on Sunday.
     
    Officers say he is a federal offender on statutory release after serving a five-year sentence for crimes including the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl.
     
    Police say he has previous convictions related to child pornography, assaults, threatening and property crime.

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