B.C. sex offender pleads guilty to breaching supervision order following manhunt
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This article was published 26/04/2024 (877 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
VANCOUVER – A high-risk sex offender who went on the run for 10 days in Vancouver has pleaded guilty to breaching his long-term supervision order and failing to attend court.
The province’s prosecution service confirmed that Randall Hopley entered the guilty pleas in provincial court on Friday.
Hopley walked away from a halfway house in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside after cutting off his ankle monitor in November.
The public manhunt ended when investigators said Hopley turned up outside a police station to give himself up because he was feeling cold.
Hopley had completed a six-year prison term for the 2011 abduction of a three-year-old boy in southeastern B.C.
He was released in 2018 to live in a halfway house under a 10-year supervision order, but was arrested in January for allegedly violating conditions of the order by visiting a library and getting too close to children.
He was on bail for that charge when he disappeared.
Hopley is expected to be in court next month to schedule a date for a sentencing hearing.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 26, 2024.