U.S. PEDOPHILE HID IN VANCOUVER
Arizona man nabbed in Montreal on way back from Venezuela
One of America’s most-wanted fugitives — convicted pedophile Steven William Dyer — lived undetected in downtown Vancouver for eight years before his arrest at a Montreal airport Wednesday.
Now, the Vancouver Police Department, which only learned of Dyer’s existence after his arrest, has sexcrimes investigators working with their Lower Mainland counterparts and the Canadian Border Services Agency to determine whether Dyer, 44, molested children in B.C.
“[Investigators] will be reviewing any unsolved file to determine if Dyer may fit the suspect profile,” the VPD’S Lindsey Houghton said Wednesday.
“[Dyer] was not known to us at all as of this morning,” he said.
A search warrant of his residence hasn’t been obtained by the VPD, but remains an option.
Dyer faces a minimum jail sentence of 169 years in a U.S. prison for 13 counts of child molestation in Arizona after being convicted in absentia on April 16, 2002, on all counts. Arizona court documents show Dyer — originally from California — was found guilty of having a sexual relationship with a 12-yearold boy from 2000 to 2001.
According to the Contra Costa Times in California, Dyer was a Big Brother, a youth sports coach and earned between $100,000 and $200,000 a year working in a medical supply business.
The newspaper also reported Dyer had at least one other victim, and engaged in “sex parties” with the boys that involved alcohol and pornography.
From 2002 onward, he obtained an Arizona ID card, New Mexico driver’s licence and U.S. passport with his brother, Ronald Dyer’s, information.
It is known that Dyer crossed into the U.S. from B.C. on two occasions in 2007 driving his father’s Lexus SUV.
Dyer had also been in contact with his family while a fugitive and is known to have frequented gettogethers, where his parents and others advised the children and grandchildren of the family that Dyer was an international spy and not to tell anyone they saw him in California.
He isn’t currently suspected in any criminal offence in Vancouver, said Houghton, but that could change pending the investigation.
Dyer — who fraudulently obtained Canadian ID in 2004 — was apprehended at Montreal’s Pierre Trudeau Airport.
CBSA investigators learned in December 2011 that Dyer had the fraudulent ID and that he was in Venezuela at the time.
He was identified upon his return to Canada.