High-risk sex offender convicted of manslaughter expected to live in Winnipeg: police
Posted January 7, 2025 11:15 am.
Last Updated January 7, 2025 11:16 am.
A man with a lengthy history of violent offences over the course of more than three decades, including being convicted for the manslaughter of a two-year-old child, has been released from prison and is expected to live in Winnipeg.
Marcel Hank Charlette, 52, was released from Headingley Correctional Centre Tuesday.
The Manitoba Integrated High Risk Sex Offender Unit (MIHRSOU) warns he is considered a high risk to re-offend in a sexual or violent manner against all men, women, and children.
Charlette is also known as Hank Marcel Caribou, Hank Charlette, Peewee, and Bald Eagle. He is described as five-foot-two weighing 124 lbs., bald (with black hair), and brown eyes.
He has several tattoos on his face (teardrops, triangles above and below each eye, “87” on his right cheek bone, and many more), hands, arms, skull, back, torso and abdomen. He has scars on his right thumb and arm.
Police say Charlette was sentenced to six years in prison in the 1991 manslaughter of a child. He was also convicted of aggravated assault in 1996 “for brutally attacking, punching and kicking a woman.”
He was convicted for assaults in 2004, 2006, 2010 – where he was sentenced to 10 years behind bars – and 2021. Most recently, he was serving a sentence in Headingley for failure to comply with conditions of a release order.
Authorities say Charlette will be subject to a series of conditions, including a curfew from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m.
