Police looking for inmate missing from Vancouver Island minimum security prison
Police are searching for a 69-year-old lifer after his escape from a minimum-security federal prison, officials said.
- On Sunday, June 28, Ernest Egon Jensen escaped from the William Head Institution in Metchosin, British Columbia, after the Correctional Service of Canada discovered him missing during a noon count.
- Jensen is serving an indeterminate life sentence for second-degree murder since March 20, 1991, from a minimum-security facility located about 27 kilometres southwest of Victoria.
- The West Shore RCMP deployed "extensive patrols" to locate the 69-year-old inmate, while RCMP Air Services and facility staff conducted comprehensive searches inside and outside prison grounds.
- Police consider Jensen "dangerous" and urge anyone who sees him not to approach but to call 911 immediately; he is described as 5'8", weighing 228 pounds, with a bald head.
- Escapes from William Head have occurred in recent years; in 2019, inmates James Lee Busch and Zachary Armitage fled the facility and later killed 60-year-old Martin Payne.
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Oak Bay News
Police searching for escaped inmate from Metchosin minimum-security prison
Police are searching for a 69-year-old inmate serving a life sentence for murder who escaped from a minimum-security federal prison on Sunday, June 28. Staff members at William Head Institution in Metchosin, B.C., discovered that Ernest Egon Jensen was missing during the noon count. The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) immediately contacted the West Shore detachment of the RCMP. Ernest Jensen has escaped from William Head Institution, a min…
Winnipeg Free Press
Police looking for inmate missing from Vancouver Island minimum security prison
VICTORIA - Police on Vancouver Island say they're on the hunt for an inmate who escaped from the minimum security William Head Institution.
Police searching for escaped inmate from Vancouver Island minimum-security prison
Police are searching for a 69-year-old inmate serving a life sentence for murder who escaped from a minimum-security federal prison on Sunday, June 28. Staff members at William Head Institution in Metchosin, B.C., discovered that Ernest Egon Jensen was missing during the noon count. The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) immediately contacted the West Shore detachment of the RCMP. Ernest Jensen has escaped from William Head Institution, a min…
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