A collection of news briefs for Dec. 17

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Sex offender likely to live in Winnipeg

A 40-year-old convicted sex offender – who has been deemed a high risk to re-offend in a sexual and violent manner against girls and women of all ages – has finished his latest sentence and is expected to move to Winnipeg.

Manitoba police issued a public notice Friday to warn residents that Christopher Assiniboine, who has an extensive criminal record, including convictions for sexual assault and robbery, was released from Stony Mountain Institution Friday.

“He is an untreated sex offender… All females, children and adults are at risk,” states a release from a joint-forces project between the Winnipeg Police Service and RCMP.

The notice states Assiniboine just finished serving a sentence for two counts of breaching a decade-long supervision order related to past sexual-assault and uttering-threats convictions that involved an 18-year-old female stranger.

Assiniboine supplied drugs and alcohol to lure victims from a public place to commit sexual offenses in both May 2015 and September 2009, police said.

The man is subject to a new long-term order that prohibits him from having contact with anyone under 18 unless supervised and from consuming, purchasing or possessing alcohol or drugs that have not been prescribed as medication. The new set of conditions also require Assiniboine to live at a site approved by the Correctional Service of Canada.

Man charged with 2020 homicide

A 21-year-old man has been charged with manslaughter after he allegedly broke into a St. John’s-area residence and fatally stabbed the owner in the fall of 2020.

The Winnipeg Police Service said Friday it had detained a suspect in connection to a homicide that occurred more than two years ago, thanks to its forensic identification section.

WPS had reported responding to a call about an injured male at a house in the 400 block of Atlantic Avenue around 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 11, 2020. Gerald Justin Hamelin, 42, was taken to hospital in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.

“It is believed that the suspect had broken into the residence of the victim (whom he knew as a casual acquaintance). A confrontation occurred, and the victim was fatally stabbed,” police said in the release, issued one day after the arrest.

Payton Corydonlee Stagg of Winnipeg is charged with manslaughter and break and enter with intent.