High-risk sex offender Hayden McCorriston has been re-arrested after escaping from a halfway house in downtown Vancouver.
Correctional Service Canada had issued a country-wide warrant for his arrest.
"Vancouver Police have re-arrested a high-risk sex offender who went missing from his halfway house on Friday after being granted statutory release one day prior," the Vancouver Police Department wrote in a post on X. "Officers from VPD's Chronic Offender Unit located Hayden McCorriston, 30, this afternoon near Granville and Robson Street, after receiving a tip from someone who recognized him."
According to the VPD, he was last seen leaving the halfway house on Homer St. at 10:25 a.m. on Friday. He never returned.
McCorriston was described as "an indigenous man, about 5-ft., 11-ins., with a slim build and a shaved head." When last seen, he was wearing a black long-sleeve shirt, dark blue or black pants, and black shoes with white soles, as well as a black hat and blue surgical mask.
Just one day earlier, the VPD warned the public that McCorriston, who has a "history of sexually assaulting strangers," had been granted statutory release and would be living at a halfway house in town for the remainder of his two-year, three-month sentence.
He was convicted of sexually assaulting multiple women in Burnaby and Vancouver in 2022, and subseqeuently found guilty of five counts of sexual assault, break-and-enter, failure to comply with an undertaking, assaulting a peace officer, possession of property obtained by crime, mischief, robbery, indecent acts, assault, and assault by choking.
Police said they believed McCorriston "poses significant risk of harm to the community and is a high risk to commit further physical and sexual violence."
He had been asked to abide by a number of conditions, including no drugs or alcohol and a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. He was also required to report all intimate sexual and non-sexual relationships and friendships with females to his parole supervisor, and not enter licensed establishments.
