A B.C. sex offender who failed to check into his Vancouver halfway house after being released from prison this week is back in custody.
The Vancouver Police Department says 36-year-old Johnny Walkus was let out from the Matsqui Institution, a federal medium-security prison in Abbotsford, on statutory release on Tuesday (Feb. 6). Statutory release is when an offender is let out of prison after serving two-thirds of a sentence, but remain under supervision.
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