The man arrested Thursday following the robbery of a local credit union has a violent past.
In October 2009, Denny Stanley Hoggan, 35, was sentenced to a further six months in jail months for assaulting his girlfriend inside a Courtenay apartment building three months before, according to the Comox Valley Echo.
During the incident, he threatened to kill her family and burn their house down.
The day after the assault police got a frantic call from the woman's family. Hoggan was at their home trying to kick in the front door.
Police arrested him, after a struggle, with guns drawn. Hoggan threatened to track the cops involved down when he got out of jail.
Then, just a day after he was released from jail, Hoggan was arrested for threatening his mother on the phone, allegedly for talking to police regarding the July 2009 incident.
According to Crown prosecutor Robert Richardson, Hoggan said to his mom: "When I get there it's all over. You better not call the police on me because it's done."
Hoggan, who had been in jail since his arrest, was given a further five months behind bars and a year probation, during which he was banned from the Comox Valley.
Hoggan's lengthy criminal record also includes sentences for assault and other crimes in Prince George, committed during a spree in November 2001. Roughly a year later, he was sentenced in Vancouver provincial court to five months in jail and one year probation for assault causing bodily harm. He also received two-month sentences for two counts of possession of stolen property.
Police apprehended Hoggan on Thursday afternoon about 20 minutes after they were called to the Integris Credit Union's Riverpoint branch on Ferry Avenue at Highway 16 East at 3:20 p.m. He was reportedly arrested at Pine Centre Mall without incident and remained in custody as of Friday.
