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Police in Regina have arrested a high-risk sex offender who was unlawfully at large after moving into the city’s Heritage neighbourhood last month.
Regina Police Service (RPS) said in a news release on April 22 that 48-year-old Jason Paul Thorn had been returned to closed custody after breaching the conditions of his statutory release and not the result of a new criminal offence.
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Thorn had been living “in a residence that provides supervision and monitoring of his activities” in the Regina neighbourhood since his release on March 31 but police had been unable to contact him since April 16.
Last month, police warned that Jared Charles, a violent sex offender who triggered two Amber alerts in the province — including one case where he kidnapped a girl from a Prince Albert playground and sexually assaulted her — had been released after completing his sentence, and was also living in the Heritage neighbourhood.
“Charles has indicated that he is unable or unwilling to abide by conditions and that he is at a high risk to reoffend sexually,” the RCMP noted in a statement on Charles’s release.
Police also said in March to remind the public that Louis Ted Mercredi, who had also been deemed to be a high risk to reoffend sexually, still lives in Regina’s Heritage neighbourhood.
Mercredi’s criminal history includes violent sexual offences, police said, and he has a history of reoffending.
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