Victoria police are asking the public to watch out for a high-risk offender known to target the vulnerable and elderly. Jason Vincent, 39, failed to return to his halfway house for curfew and his statutory release was suspended.
Victoria police searching a suite at a temporary-housing facility at the former Comfort Inn on Blanshard Street seized fentanyl, methamphetamines and hundreds of pills believed to be controlled . . .
The arrest involved more than a dozen officers, including armed tactical members of the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team. The man surrendered just after 2 a.m. after tactical officers used a flash bang device. No one was injured. Victoria police statistics show that 60 per cent of high-priority calls between June and November were focused on the city’s multi-unit residential temporary housing facilities and encampments in parks and areas in the immediate vicinity. Police responded to 4,384 priority one or priority two calls at the 13 locations between June shortly after the B.C. government purchased or leased several hotels in Victoria this summer to house hundreds of people living in encampments in Topaz Park and on Pandora Avenue and November.