Darrell Peter Moosomin, a dangerous offender who escaped from a powwow during an escorted visit, is back in custody.

At 6 p.m. Sunday evening, Killam RCMP received a tip that a man who fit Moosomin`s description was hitchhiking on Highway 13.

RCMP officers sent to the area identified the man and arrested him without incident just east of Daysland, about 140 kilometres southeast of Edmonton.



On Aug. 13, the 54-year-old managed to slip away from an elder assigned to watch him during an authorized escorted leave at a powwow on the Samson Cree First Nation in Maskwacis.

RCMP had warned Moosomin "should not be approached if seen."

He was serving an indeterminate sentence at the Pe Sakastew Centre in Maskwacis at the time of the escorted visit.

He remains in police custody and is awaiting a hearing.