Michael Bopfinger, 47, is alleged to have pointed a handgun at a woman in a parking lot on Saturday afternoon.
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Vernon North Okanagan RCMP
August 03, 2022 - 11:04 AM
A violent sex offender who commented on his own RCMP wanted poster has been picked up by police.
According to a Vernon North Okanagan RCMP media release, Michael Bopfinger was arrested just after 9 a.m. this morning, Aug. 3.
Vernon RCMP had put out a media release July 25 saying it was looking for Bopfinger after he allegedly pointed a handgun at a woman in a Vernon parking lot.
RCMP had said Bopfinger had an "altercation" with the woman in an apartment complex parking lot in the 3700 block of 27 Avenue.
Along with the media release, Vernon RCMP also posted on Facebook saying he was a wanted man.
Surprisingly, Bopfinger replied to a derogatory comment from a member of the public about the bald and bearded 300 lb., 47-year-old on the RCMP Facebook page.
After the post received traction and multiple comments from the public Bopfinger replied again.
"You sheep know nothing about me or the fact that I have been off my meds for a year and that I have been a heavy drug user in that same amount of time. Before you go and judge me, just to let you know I work 10 hours a day and support a heavy drug habit also so you sheep can go and pick on someone else. Hope you feel really good about yourself for picking on a guy with mental health problems," his reply read.
In 2011, when he was living in Lumby, Bopfinger was convicted for multiple violent attacks on Vernon sex trade workers. He was sentenced to 11 years in jail.
On three occasions he locked sex workers in his vehicle and sexually and physically assaulted them before leaving them naked and beaten in a rural area.
In 2017, when on parole, he failed to return to a halfway house in Vancouver and was later arrested on Vancouver Island.
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