High-risk offender arrested after going missing from Dartmouth halfway house

Joshua James Turner deemed high-risk offender relating to sexual and violent crimes

Image | Joshua James Turner

Caption: High risk offender Joshua James Turner, 35, was reported missing from the Jamieson Community Correctional Centre in Burnside on May 26. He was found and arrested a few hours later. (Submitted by Halifax Regional Police)

A high-risk offender is back in custody after he left a halfway house in Dartmouth, N.S.
Staff at the Jamieson Community Correctional Centre on Morris Drive in Burnside called the Halifax Regional Police on Sunday around 9 a.m. to report that Joshua James Turner, 35, was missing from custody.
He was arrested without incident in Dartmouth at 2:40 p.m, police said in a news release.
Turner is deemed a high-risk offender relating to sexual and violent crimes, police said.
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