A man who pleaded guilty to aggravated assault following an unprovoked stabbing attack on a Mexican tourist at a Vancouver Tim Hortons in 2022 has been re-arrested under a Canada-wide warrant after failing to comply with the conditions of his early release, police said.
David Richard Morin was taken into custody on Oct. 28 at his halfway house in Vancouver, the Vancouver Police Department said in a press release. Morin was on parole, but a national warrant was issued for his arrest after he allegedly breached some conditions of his release, including abstaining from drugs or alcohol, police said.
Morin was granted statutory release by Correctional Service Canada earlier this year after serving two years of his three-year jail sentence, according to officials. At the time of his release, Vancouver Police issued a public warning, saying the 30-year-old Morin posed “a high risk of significant harm to the community” and “compelling circumstances exist to warn the public that he will be living in Vancouver.”
Morin pleaded guilty in June 2022 to aggravated assault in the random stabbing of a Mexican man visiting Canada at a downtown Vancouver Tim Hortons in January 2022. The…
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