Feb. 2, 2017 update: A high-risk sex offender who was allowed to leave his halfway house back in August is back in police custody after breaching conditions imposed by his probation officer.
Vancouver police are warning the public now that a high-risk sex offender is allowed to leave his halfway house.
Michael Wayne Carpenter, 45, is living at a Vancouver halfway house and serving a 10-year supervision order. He was convicted of three counts of sexual assault with a weapon, forcible confinement, and uttering a threat to cause death or bodily harm.
In August 2015 Vancouver police issued a similar warning about Carpenter who was convicted of attacking staff at three hotels in Kamloops. One of the attack victims was a 13-year-old girl who was working in the laundry room at a Howard Johnson hotel.
But Carpenter’s parole was revoked in November, after investigators found he had broken into a Vancouver hotel, Const. Brian Montague said. Police have not said which hotel Carpenter broke into. He was arrested, charged with break-and-enter, and placed under house arrest.
The terms of Carpenter’s supervision order include the following prohibitions: not consuming, buying or possessing alcohol or drugs; not owning, using or possessing a computer; not being near female children under age 18 except in certain conditions; not buying, possessing or accessing pornography; and not entering any private dwelling including hotels motels, SROs or vehicles.
Carpenter is white, five-foot-nine, 180 pounds, with short brown hair and blue eyes.
Anyone who witnesses him breaking any of his conditions is asked to call 911.
