A former Prince George drug enforcer who received a lengthy sentence for his role in kidnapping, confining and torturing a man has been put back behind bars after an incident of road rage.
Statutory release for Steve Marozoff, 36, was revoked Nov. 8, according to a Parole Board of Canada decision.
His parole was suspended in July when, according to a police report, he attacked a driver who had cut him off. The other driver chose not to press charges and police released Marozoff.
But the information police documented from the victim and three witnesses was enough to raise a concern for a Board member assigned to review the case.
"The Board finds that although you were not charged, you returned to criminal behaviour when you threatened and assaulted the other driver, and concludes that your risk has elevated to an undue level," the member said in the report.
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.
Put on parole in September 2015, Marozoff had been living in a halfway house in the Lower Mainland. He's violated his conditions in the past and received escalating penalties as a result.
His sentence ends in March 2017.
