Delroy Apple, a Guyanese immigrant with dozens of Canadian convictions, was reported missing from the Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in Whitby on 18 June—seven days before an Ontario tribunal issued a decision permitting privileges potentially extending to supervised community living.
Durham Regional Police said Apple, 47, was last seen at about 7pm on 18 June at the Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in Whitby. He was wanted on a warrant of committal, while officers warned the public ‘not to approach’ him. As of 13 July, no official update had clarified whether he had been found, returned, or had his privileges suspended.
Male from Ontario Shores Wanted on Warrant of CommittalPolice are searching for a male who is wanted on a Warrant of Committal in Whitby.Delroy APPLE, age 47, was last seen at approximately 7:00 p.m., on Thursday, June18, 2026 at Ontario Shores located at 700 Gordon Street in… pic.twitter.com/PXo5gnWChc
The Ontario Review Board decision, dated 25 June, continued Apple’s detention but authorized privileges ‘up to and including community living’. It reportedly stated that there had been no escape attempts during the relevant reporting period. The evidentiary record probably closed before Apple disappeared, but the public record does not reveal the hearing date, whether the Board knew he was missing, or whether the order was later changed.
Apple was born in Guyana and entered Canada in 2003 before moving to the United States. After drug convictions there, he was deported to Guyana in 2005. He returned to Canada in 2010 and obtained protected-person status on LGBTQ+ grounds. He married a woman the following year and separated in 2012. Despite the apparent fraud-like conduct, no public ruling establishing visa fraud has been identified. Board records say he has received assistance through the Ontario Disability Support programme since 2014.
His Canadian record is less ambiguous. The 2026 ruling reportedly lists 39 convictions between 2012 and 2018, including two sexual assaults, armed robbery, assault with a weapon, assaulting a peace officer, and repeated breaches of court orders.
‘The 2026 ruling reportedly lists 39 convictions between 2012 and 2018, including two sexual assaults’
The attack that brought Apple under forensic supervision occurred on 17 July 2019. Inside a Toronto convenience store, he smashed glass bottles, tackled a stranger, and repeatedly stabbed him with broken glass. In April 2020, he was found ‘not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder’ on the aggravated-assault charge. As the ruling was not a conviction or prison sentence, the Review Board assumed jurisdiction.
Apple has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type, borderline personality disorder, antisocial traits, and severe amphetamine-type substance-use disorder. In 2015 he overdosed on methamphetamine, while in 2017, he attempted suicide by walking in front of a streetcar.
The current incident is also not the first time Apple has tried to flee while under forensic psychiatric supervision. One day after indirectly supervised privileges began, and during only his third outing, Apple escaped. He reached New Jersey, said he attempted another US asylum claim, and was returned on 19 February. He admitted injecting methamphetamine daily while absent, while his psychiatrist said the escape appeared ‘planned rather than driven by psychosis’.
The Board then found that Apple remained a ‘significant threat’, posed a high escape risk, and was unsuitable for community living. By 2026, however, clinicians reported improved treatment engagement, medication adherence, abstinence, and no recent aggression. Ontario Shores recommended a gradual move to a less secure unit and possible supervised accommodation.
The latest order did not simply set him free. It kept him detained while allowing supervised access to the grounds, escorted community passes of up to 12 hours, travel within 150 kilometres, and eventual residence in approved housing. Those are controlled privileges, but extensive ones for an immigrant with a lengthy criminal record who had already fled once and was apparently missing again.
‘Apple’s absurd story highlights the gaping holes in Canada’s immigration system’
Apple’s absurd story highlights the gaping holes in Canada’s immigration system. Serious convictions can support inadmissibility, while protected status can be overridden if the minister considers a person who is inadmissible on serious-criminality grounds to pose a danger to the public. Yet no accessible record confirms a CBSA inadmissibility report, removal order, ministerial danger opinion, or court judgment blocking deportation.
The publicly funded detention, treatment, and disability support carry an undisclosed cost borne largely by Canadian taxpayers. Apple’s case also exposes the consequences of treating immigration enforcement, forensic psychiatry, and criminal justice as separate silos. Rehabilitation is legitimate, but public safety and victims’ interests must come first when someone still classified as dangerous repeatedly disappears after being granted greater freedom.
Many critics argue that the authorities now owe the public clear answers about his whereabouts, his privileges, and why immigration enforcement apparently produced no visible result.
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