Vancouver Police arrested a high-risk sex offender early Saturday morning after he allegedly breached his long-term supervision order.
Police say 45-year-old Jason White is a person of interest in an attempted home invasion of an elderly woman in the city's Oakridge neighbourhood.
Const. Brian Montague asked for the public's help on Friday night as officers attempted to locate and arrest White on a Canada-wide warrant for breaching his supervision order.
Montague says White is a convicted sex offender who was deemed a dangerous offender after being found guilty of breaking into the Nanaimo home of a 74-year-old woman, sexually assaulting and robbing her, in 1994.
He says White appealed the dangerous offender designation and was eventually released on a long-term supervision order.
Police say he was arrested at around 3:30 a.m. Saturday on the University of British Columbia campus but it's unclear why he was there.
Just hours earlier, thousands of students had attended a year-end block party on campus.
Montague says police did a preliminary search of the site when he was arrested and brought in a search and canvass team later Saturday to do a more thorough job.
"Why he was at UBC will be part of the ongoing investigation," he says in an email. "We will be having a close look at White's activity over the past few days, weeks and months.
"We will also continue to liaise and work with other jurisdictions to share any information that may assist them."
The university's RCMP detachment did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The campus has seen a series of "night prowler" events where a man was seen lurking in bathrooms and bedrooms at UBC residences, and a sexual assault of a 20-year-old woman last month.
The description of the suspect in those incidents was of a man in his mid to late 20s with dark skin.
