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Violent offender arrested for breaking release conditions: Vancouver police

Police cars are seen parked outside Vancouver Police Department headquarters in Vancouver, on Saturday, January 9, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Vancouver police say they have arrested a violent offender who was wanted Canada-wide for allegedly violating his release conditions.

Dillon Juel Stanton, 32, was located in downtown Vancouver on Friday night and immediately taken to jail.

Stanton was serving a three-year sentence for an armed robbery in Coquitlam in 2017.

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He was in the community on statutory release and had been ordered to live in a Vancouver halfway house, but allegedly breached his conditions.

Stanton’s father, a well-known Hells Angel, was shot dead in the family’s yard in 2010.

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