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UPDATE: Vancouver police say a violent sex offender who failed to return to his Vancouver halfway house on Wednesday night is back in custody.

Richard Darren Rondeau, 33, is serving a 70-month sentence for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl he met at a party in Winnipeg in 2011.

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He was arrested at a residence early Saturday morning by the New Westminster Police Department.

“Although Rondeau was not found committing additional offences at the time of his arrest, VPD investigators will be trying to determine his actions over the past couple of days,” Vancouver police said in a release.

Rondeau, who was found guilty on numerous charges including sexual assault, forcible confinement, overcome resistance by choke and uttering death threats, has been assessed by Corrections Canada as a high risk to reoffend.

The Winnipeg Sun reported that during his sentencing in 2013, Justice Gerald Chartier said Rondeau had no “mitigating factors” in his favour. Chartier said Rondeau choked, punched and threatened the victim to make her comply with his demands.

Crown attorney Daniel Chaput said Rondeau’s crimes exhibited a “shocking level of depravity … not often seen before these courts.”

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