Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement Issues Media Release Concerning Rodney Starke

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The Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement (R.O.P.E.) Squad is requesting the public’s assistance in locating a federal offender wanted on a Canada Wide Warrant as a result of a breach of his Long Term Supervision Order.

A/D/Sgt Brett Anderson told Today’s Northumberland, “all of our offenders that are unlawfully at large, there are always an element of risk.”

Rodney Starke is described as a white male, 58 years of age, 6′ (183cm), 201 lbs (91kg) bald with hazel eyes. He has se veral tattoos on his body including a Wizard tattoo on his left shoulder, a bird tattoo on his left ankle, and Chinese writing and a cat head on his back.

He is currently bound by a Long Term Supervision Order resulting from a seventeen (17) year sentence for Aggravated Assault, Forcible Confinement, and Assault with a Weapon and Trafficking in a Narcotic.

The offender is known to frequent the cities of Cobourg and Brighton.

Anyone having contact with this offender or information in regards to their whereabouts is asked to contact the Provincial R.O.P.E. Squad at 416-808-5900 or toll free at 1-866-870-7673 (ROPE) or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or call 9-1-1.

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