Arrest warrants issued for convicted sexual offender accused of violating probation

Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a convicted sexual offender who once told the court he didn’t recognize the law.

Thirty-eight-year-old Omar Abdul Gassim Mohammed of St. John’s is wanted on warrants for failing to abide by court orders.

Mohammed was sentenced in April 2022 to 21 months in prison for sexually assaulting a female acquaintance in his bedsit a year earlier, and for possessing a knife and using it to assault two Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officers when they responded to a dispute between Mohammed and a male acquaintance in July 2020.

With credit for the time he had already spent on remand, Mohammed had 79 days left to serve at the time of his sentencing.

His probation conditions include orders to be of good behaviour, not possess a firearm and abide by the rules of the national sex offender registry for 20 years.

Mohammed’s trials were lengthy and often interrupted by his refusal to participate or to speak with counsel. He consistently told the court he wasn’t interested in talking with defence lawyers and didn’t recognize Canadian law, and at one point insisted he had never been arrested for assaulting police officers and had been charged with someone else’s crimes.

He spent the first day of one trial lying on the floor in protest and his interjections often led the judge to order him removed from the courtroom and into another room where he could watch the proceedings remotely.

The RNC is asking anyone with information on Mohammed’s whereabouts to contact them at 729-8000 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS.