Daniel Leonard (file photo)

By Troy Gillard

back behind bars

Red Deer man charged for indecent act

May 23, 2019 | 4:39 PM

A local man convicted previously for sexually assaulting and harassing women is back behind bars following an incident last week.

City Mounties responded to the Superstore parking lot in Red Deer on May 15. They say a male approached a female and her young child and engaged in a conversation with the female.

When the man returned to his vehicle he is alleged to have performed indecent acts inside and outside of the vehicle. RCMP say they arrested the male while he was committing the offence.

Daniel Leonard, 41, of Red Deer is charged with one count of committing an indecent act and one count of breach of probation. He remains in custody and is to appear in Red Deer Provincial Court on June 12.

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Last month, sexual assault-related charges against Leonard were withdrawn in relation to incidents which took place in downtown Red Deer late last year.

In February 2018 he was sentenced for a 2016 sexual assault in the downtown area. He was also convicted for sexual assaults on women near the University of Alberta in Edmonton in 2014 and served more than two years in a U.S. prison for making thousands of harassing phone calls to women while he was working at a water park in Washington State.