High-Risk Sex Offender With Violent History Against Women to Live in Winnipeg: Police

A high-risk sex offender with a record of violence against women has been released from federal prison and is expected to live in Winnipeg, city police are warning.

Jason Mark Bard, 35, was released from Headingley Correctional Centre on May 1 after serving a 282-day sentence for a breach of recognizance conviction, the Winnipeg Police Service said in a community notice.

Police describe Bard as a “violent” offender with a “lengthy criminal record” that includes multiple incarcerations.

“Bard has a history of sexual and violent offending,” police said in the notice. “Although he has completed some sexual offender treatment in the past, he remains high risk to re-offend in a sexually violent manner against all adult females,” said the notice. 

He received a five-year prison sentence in 2015 for sexual assault with a weapon and several other convictions. Police said he choked and threatened a woman during a violent sexual assault that was eventually interrupted when two strangers came upon the scene and assisted the victim.

He also received a four-year sentence for aggravated assault in 2021 after he and another inmate at Stony Mountain Institution attacked a fellow inmate with a weapon, repeatedly stabbing him, according to the notice. The attack was stopped by corrections officers and the inmate sustained a collapsed lung and other injuries.

Bard was also handed 135 days behind bars after his 2024 conviction for assaulting a police officer by spitting in his face.

His lengthy criminal record includes convictions for forcible confinement, overcoming resistance by attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle another person, uttering threats, and aggravated assault as well as several counts of breach of probation.

Bard will have a lifetime weapons ban and is required to reside at a court-approved address upon release, police said. He is also restricted from consuming any alcohol or other substances, must observe a strict 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew, and is prohibited from contacting previous victims or their families.

The 35-year-old is described as a five-foot-three and 200-pound Metis man with brown hair and eyes. He has a tribal tattoo on his left upper arm, the word “Krunk” tattooed on his right hand, and a cross on his right calf that says “Rest in Peace/Edward Bone.”

Police said the advisory was released as a measure to allow members of the public “to take suitable measures to protect themselves,” not as an invitation to engage in “any form of vigilante activity or other unreasonable conduct directed at Bard will not be tolerated.”