A federal offender who went unlawfully at large on March 14 has been apprehended in Toronto according to the Repeat Offender Parole Enforcement (R.O.P.E.) Squad.
Derek Oppong was located and arrested by the Toronto Police.
He is serving a 10-year, 1 day sentence on seven offences including kidnapping, extortion, forcible confinement and commission of offence for criminal organization and three other firearms related charges.
R.O.P.E’s Staff Sgt. Steve Sermet says Oppong was released on parole from a Kingston detention centre on March 14 and was supposed to report to a halfway house in Oshawa and failed to do so and a warrant was issued for his arrest on that day.
A second release was sent out about him being unlawfully at large in July.
Sermet had no details on his current offences.
However, Opping was one of the men acquitted of the notorious Garden Restaurant murder on Nov. 16, 2014 near Bay and Dundas in which Tariq Mohmmed, 31, was allegedly shot and killed by a group of men attempting to steal a gold necklace.
Two women were struck by stray bullets and Oppong, Clifton Vassel, Abdirisak Yusuf Ibrahim, Marcus Gibson and Ceyon Carrington all eventually had charges against them dropped.
Accused triggerman Havard McKenzie, who had been charged with first-degree murder, was acquitted.