High-risk offender released to live in Heritage area

The Regina Police Service (RPS) is warning residents of the Heritage neighbourhood about a potentially-dangerous offender living amongst them.

The police issued a public advisory on Tuesday to let the public know that 46-year-old Kelly Roger Furi is living in a supervised home in the area. He has a record of violent sexual offences and a history of reoffending. According to police, he completed programming to “address his risk factors” while in jail, but according to the advisory he “has not made any progress in reducing his high risk to reoffend violently.” It is that risk of reoffending that triggered the warning.

Furi will be subject to a long-term supervision order, which means he must live at an “approved residence” that supervises and monitors his activities. He also has a long list of special conditions governing his release, including:

• Must return to the residential facility nightly;
• Must not be in the company of sex trade workers;
• Immediately report all intimate sexual and non-sexual relationships and friendships with females to his parole supervisor;
• Not to be in or near areas where sex trade workers frequent;
• Reside at a Community Correctional Centre or Community Residential Facility for a period of 365 days;
• Follow a treatment plan/program to be arranged by his parole supervisor in the areas of family violence, anger, and sexual violence; and
• No direct or indirect contact with the victims or any member of their family.

The RPS notes that anyone who witnesses Furi breaching those conditions should call them at 306-777-6500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.