Dangerous offender wanted for parole breach known to frequent Hamilton

Police are searching for a federal offender wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for breaching his statutory release.

Ontario's repeat offender parole enforcement (ROPE) squad is asking the public for help finding Danny Beharri. The 39-year-old is known to frequent Toronto, Brampton, Milton and Hamilton.

Beharri is serving a 10-year sentence for sexual assault with a weapon, three counts of assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon, utter threats to cause death, breach of bail and fail to comply with probation. He was released on parole.

In 2015 a Superior Court judge declared him a dangerous offender. He was sentenced him to 10 years plus a long-term supervision order.

Daniel Beharri is a serial abuser of intimate domestic partners," Justice Casey Hill said, according to an article in the Brampton Guardian.

Beharri is described as a Black man, 39, five-foot-eight, 165 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information is asked to call provincial ROPE squad Provincial at 1-866-870-7673. To remain anonymous call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or call 911.

Nicole O'Reilly is a crime and justice reporter at The Spectator. noreilly@thespec.com