Girls in Winnipeg are being cautioned after a high-risk intercourse offender, Justin David Levasseur, was launched from federal custody on Wednesday.
Levasseur additionally goes by a number of first names – together with Jay, Norman, “J” and “J Star,” — in response to a neighborhood notification issued by the Winnipeg Police Service and Manitoba Built-in Excessive Danger Intercourse Offender Unit.
Regardless of having participated in some therapy programming, the 36-year-old continues to be thought-about a high-risk offender.
Girls, particularly, are prone to sexual violence, in response to police, who stated Levasseur will stay in a supervised setting in Winnipeg.
He’s described as being five-feet, nine-inches tall and roughly 236 lbs. He has brown eyes and black hair.
Levasseur has a number of tattoos, together with one of many letter “J” on his neck and the letters “JL” on his left hand, and “Jay” on each shoulders. He has two different tattoos on his left forearm: a buffalo cranium and headdress in addition to his surname, police stated.
The neighborhood discover stated Levasseur has a prolonged prison report that features being convicted for:
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- Sexual assault
- Forcible confinement
- Break and enter commit sexual assault
- Overcome resistance by trying to choke
- Suffocate or strangle
- Assault trigger bodily hurt
- Assault (4 counts)
- Resist peace officer (2 counts)
- Escape lawful custody (2 counts)
- Hinder peace officer (2 counts)
- Uttering threats
- Quite a few breaches of probation, recognizance and court docket orders
Police have issued a number of warnings about him previously, together with in 2018 and twice in 2019.
His launch from federal custody on Wednesday got here after serving a six-year sentence handed down in November 2021. Levasseur was convicted of sexual assault and forcible confinement towards a girl he met through Fb.
“He forcibly confined her in his residence and dedicated quite a few sexual assaults, assaults, and uttered threats towards her,” police stated.
These incidents happened in February and March 2021.
The now-36-year-old additionally confronted the courts in 2016, associated to an incident three years prior, police added.
After breaking right into a stranger’s dwelling, Levasseur sexually assaulted and choked a girl who lived there whereas she was asleep in her room, and her youngsters have been sleeping in one other bed room.
Levasseur is topic to a number of situations, together with that he can’t drink alcohol or take medication. He should additionally keep away from contact with identified criminals and drug customers as a part of his parole. He’s additionally banned from contacting his victims or their households.
He’s additionally topic to a lifetime weapons prohibition. Police stated vigilante exercise towards Levasseur won’t be tolerated.
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