Toronto police have issued a public safety warning following the release of a high-risk sex offender from prison.
Michael Micallef, 47, was released from a penitentiary Thursday after serving his entire seven-year term for a violent sexual assault in the Albion and Weston roads area in the summer of 1998.
Micallef has been assessed by the Toronto Police Service and Correctional Service of Canada as a high-risk to re-offend upon his return to the community.
Officers have obtained a judicial restraint order that orders Micallef to:
- Report weekly to police;
- Not contact his prior victims;
- Not attend any public park;
- Not be in possession of firearms, weapons or non-prescription drugs; and
- Not communicate with anyone known to him to be involved in criminal activity.
Micallef was convicted of sexual assault with a weapon, uttering threats and forcible conferment after a 25-year-old woman was grabbed by the neck and sexually assaulted at knifepoint while walking along a section of the Humber Valley River Trail in July 1998.
Police remind residents to use caution when travelling alone through isolated areas throughout the city.
