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A convicted sex offender who failed to return to a Vancouver halfway house on Monday night is back behind bars.

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Vancouver police arrested James Allan Pike, 46, Thursday night in the city’s West End.

The VPD says Pike ran from officers after being spotted near Jervis Street and Nelson Street. Officers, with the help of VPD service dog Griffin, later found Pike hiding in a nearby parkade.

He was treated at hospital for a dog bite and then taken to jail. He remains in custody.

A Canada-wide warrant was issued for Pike on Tuesday after he failed to return to a halfway house where he was serving a long-term supervision order following a violent sexual assault of a Penticton woman in 2001.

In 2007, after finishing his prison sentence for the sexual assault and while he was bound to a long-term community supervision order, Pike was found guilty of uttering threats and possessing a weapon — a knife — as well as assaulting officers. After that incident, Pike was deemed a dangerous offender but the B.C.’s Court of Appeal dismissed that designation in 2011.