Sex offender to live in Vancouver

VANCOUER (CP) — Vancouver police have issued a public warning about a high-risk offender moving into the city who was at the centre of a high-profile abduction case in 2011.

Police say Randall Hopley, 53, still poses a risk of significant harm to the safety of young boys.

Hopley has served his entire six-year sentence

for breaking into a home in Sparwood, B.C., in September 2011 and abducting a three-year-old boy only to return him four days later physically unharmed.

A National Parole Board decision released to The Canadian Press on Thursday says Hopley continues to be assessed as a high risk for sexual

offending against children.

Hopley pleaded guilty in 2013 to abducting the sleeping boy from a second-floor bedroom in his family’s home.

Hopley will be living in a residential correctional facility, the location of which is confidential.

His sentence expires Nov. 12.