Photo: Courtesy of the Vancouver Police Department. Vancouver police searched across Canada for high-risk sex offender Tony Okanase after he disappeared from his halfway house on August 12. The man was arrested again on August 13. A high-risk sex offender who disappeared from his home has been found and re-arrested by police in Vancouver. Police said they were looking for 39-year-old Tony Okanase, who had been released from Mountain Institution in Agassiz on Friday morning, was reported at the halfway house in Vancouver, but later left. After he failed to return, a Canada-wide warrant was issued for his arrest. Police said Okanase posed a high risk to the public because of a history of violent sexual offenses against strangers dating back to 2003. But Sgt. Steve Addison says in a statement that Okanase was re-arrested by Vancouver officers after a community policing volunteer spotted him in the city’s Joyce-Collingwood neighborhood Saturday afternoon. Addison says police took the man into custody without incident.
