Released high-risk sex offender to live in Vancouver: police

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Vancouver Police are warning the public that a high-risk sex offender will be residing in the city.

Police say Michael Wayne Carpenter, 49, has been released to a correctional halfway house.

Carpenter is currently serving a 10-year long-term supervision order for convictions of three counts of sexual assault with a weapon, three counts of forcible confinement, and three counts of uttering threats to cause death/harm.

He poses a risk of significant harm to the safety of vulnerable female children, youth, and adults.

Carpenter is white, five feet nine inches tall, 180 pounds, with brown short hair, and blue eyes.

He must abide by the following conditions:

• Not to consume, purchase, or possess alcohol
• Not to consume, purchase or possess drugs
• Not to own, use or possess a computer, or any technological device that would allow access to the internet
• Not to be in the presence of any female children under the age of 18, except in certain conditions
• Not to purchase, acquire, possess or access pornography or sexually explicit material
• Report all friendships, sexual relationships and intimate relationships with women
• No to go to Kamloops
• Not to enter any private dwelling or places including, but not limited to, hotels, motels, rooming houses, SRO residences, private residence/dwelling, or vehicles

Anyone witnessing Carpenter in violation of any of these conditions is requested to contact local police at 911.