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Police in Regina say a high-risk sex offender who moved into the city’s Heritage neighbourhood last month is now unlawfully at large.
According to police, 48-year-old Jason Paul Thorn had been living “in a residence that provides supervision and monitoring of his activities” in the Queen City neighbourhood since his statutory release from custody on March 31.
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“The latest attempt to contact Thorn has been unsuccessful and, as a result, he is considered unlawfully at large,” the police service said in a statement.
“An investigation into his whereabouts has begun and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.”
Police said Thorn’s criminal history includes sex crimes, and he has a history of reoffending.
“He poses a high risk for sexual offences against female children,” the police service noted.
Thorn was described as five-foot-nine, weighing roughly 170 pounds, with a medium build, brown eyes and greying black hair.
The police service said officers are working to find and arrest Thorn, and emphasized that the warning issued to the public on Wednesday is not an invitation to engage in vigilante justice.
“This warning is intended to enable members of the public to take suitable preventative measures, not to embark on any form of vigilantism or other unreasonable conduct directed at this individual,” the police service said.
Two other high-risk offenders living in Heritage neighbourhood
Last month, police warned the public 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 took time 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.
