A former Prince George drug enforcer who received a lengthy sentence for his role in kidnapping, confining and torturing a man has been ordered to take treatment for substance abuse and psychological counselling after consuming cocaine while out on parole.
Steve Marozoff, 36, whose parole was suspended because of the incident in May, will be allowed to return to a halfway house in the Lower Mainland where he has been residing but his leave privileges have been suspended, according to a June 23 Parole Board of Canada decision.
Since he was put on parole in September 2015, Marozoff has been put back in custody two other times for similar offences, with the penalties escalated each time.
But in part, the board also noted that there was no information to suggest he committed any crimes on those occasions.
Marozoff was sentenced in April 2010 to a further seven years and 11 months in prison. In 2008, he and two accomplices took a man hostage over a $2,500 drug debt.
The victim was taken to a 2200-block Victoria Street home where where he was kicked, punched, burned with a hot crack pipe, stripped and bound with packing tape, urinated on and then doused with laundry detergent that burned his eyes when allowed to take a shower.
On the second day, Marozoff, who was assigned to keep an eye on the victim, launched his own round of beatings that included sexually assaulting him, carving initials in his back with a utility blade and hitting him with a golf club.
His sentence ends in five months.
