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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
City of Duluth - Police Department
Mike Ceynowa, Chief of Police
2030 North Arlington Avenue • Duluth, Minnesota 55811 • www.duluthmn.gov
For more information contact:
Public Information Officer, Mattie Hjelseth at (218) 730-5434 or mhjelseth@duluthmn.gov
DATE: 3/4/2016
SUBJECT: Relocation of Level III Predatory Offender
BY: DPD Public Information Officer R. Tinsley (218) 730-5722

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Relocation of Level III Predatory Offender
CASE NO.:
INCIDENT DATE: 3/4/2016
INCIDENT TIME:
INCIDENT LOCATION: 700 block West 1st Street Duluth

Relocation of Level III Predatory Offender

The Duluth Police Department would like to notify the public on the release and relocation of Level III Predatory Offender 54 year old, DAVID ROBERT HOULE. Houle is currently living in the vicinity of the 700 block of West 1st Street in Duluth. Offender has a history of engaging in sexual contact with an adult female victim. Offender accosted victim in a parking lot, choked her, forced her up against a vehicle and demanded her keys. A security guard interrupted the incident. Offender later admitted that he was attempting to take the victim to a secluded area to rape her. Offender was not known to the victim. Offender also has a long history of criminal activity including a conviction for Window Peeping (1991, Hennepin Co) and a conviction for Aggravated Robbery (1980, Hennepin Co) which included offender fondling a victim.


Fact sheets on Houle will be available online at www.doc.state.mn.us/level3/search.asp and at the Duluth Police Department. For more information, contact Sergeant Tait Erickson of the Duluth Police Department at (218) 730-5609.