Halifax Regional Police have taken an escaped high-risk offender into custody after searching for him for nearly 6 hours on Sunday.
Police say that at approximately 9 a.m. on Sunday they were alerted that Joshua James Turner, 35, escaped from the Jamieson Community Correctional Centre on Morris Drive in Dartmouth.
He was taken into custody at 2:40 p.m., in Dartmouth without incident, police said in a press release just before 4 p.m.
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Turner is deemed a high-risk offender relating to sexual and violent offences.
Turner, originally from Winnipeg, was sentenced to six years in prison and designated a long-term offender after he pled guilty to two counts of sexual assault in 2015.
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