Sex offender in 2011 B.C. child abduction wanted Canada-wide

A high-risk sex offender who abducted a three-year-old boy in 2011 is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after failing to return to his halfway house in Vancouver.

Police say 58-year-old Randall Hopley was last seen Saturday at 3 p.m. and has a history of convictions for assault, property and sexual crimes, including three sex offences against children.

Hopley was convicted of the 2011 abduction of a three-year-old boy in southeastern British Columbia, which touched off a Canada-wide search for the child.

Hopley, who took the boy from his family home, held the victim captive in a cabin for four days before returning him apparently unharmed.