Sex offender expected to live in Winnipeg

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Police are notifying the public about a sex offender being released from prison who is considered a high risk to attack women.

Michael Curtis Thomas, 31, was released from Stony Mountain Institution on Tuesday and is expected to live in Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release that day.

He is being let out on statutory release after being convicted of aggravated sexual assault in late 2021. He was convicted of a Sept. 6, 2020 attack in which a woman was grabbed, forced into a house and sexually assaulted in the area of Sargent Avenue and Toronto Street.

She was dragged, choked unconscious and sexually assaulted again in a passageway next to a business after she ran away and was caught by her attacker.

Thomas was sentenced to one day in custody, an addition to time he had already served after his arrest, in January 2020 after an acquaintance was stabbed eight times in the back with a kitchen knife on April 9, 2019.

Any “vigilante activity or other unreasonable conduct” directed at Thomas “will not be tolerated,” the WPS said.