{"id":821708,"date":"2026-07-23T22:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821708\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:02:10","slug":"sex-offender-wanted-on-canada-wide-warrant-found-vpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821708\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex offender wanted on Canada-wide warrant, found: VPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A convicted sex offender who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after he failed to return to his halfway house has been located and arrested, say the Vancouver Police Department (VPD).<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-nine-year-old Kenneth Nolan Kirton is currently serving a 10-year long-term supervision order, as he has been designated a dangerous offender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On July 22, police say he signed out of his Downtown Eastside halfway house and did not return, triggering the Canada-wide warrant being issued for his arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/imgonline-com-ua-FrameBlurred-S1LG5RFnlLI.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4463982\"  \/>Kenneth Nolan Kirton. (VPD handout)<\/p>\n<p>Kirton is described as being 5\u20194, about 135 lbs, with short black hair, and brown eyes.<\/p>\n<p>He was last seen wearing a tan button-up shirt, light blue shorts, and white runners, say police.<\/p>\n<p>Kirton has a tattoo of a skull on his right forearm and a scar on his left cheek.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>VPD asks anyone who sees Kirton or knows of his whereabouts to contact police by calling 911.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Vancouver as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=vancouver.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778189171_473_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A convicted sex offender who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant after he failed to return to his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-821708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}