High-risk sex offender arrested in Vancouver the same day he was released

A high-risk sex offender, Randall Hopley, was arrested by Vancouver police on Thursday only a few hours after he was released from prison.

Hopley was freed Thursday morning from Mission Institution on statutory release, a federal law that automatically gives conditional freedom to most prisoners after serving two-thirds of their sentence.

He was required to live at a halfway house in Vancouver, but refused to comply and left the halfway house, said the Vancouver Police Department.

A Canada-wide warrant was issued for his arrest.

Hopley had finished serving two-thirds of an 18-month jail sentence handed down last May after he pleaded guilty to breaching conditions of a long-term supervision order in 2022 and again in 2023.

Hopley skipped out of his halfway house in the Downtown Eastsid