The subject of a multi-day manhunt has been caught.
Prince George RCMP and members of the North District RCMP's emergency response team apprehended Robert Lee Milligan, 31, just before 2 p.m. Thursday after converging on a location in Isle Pierre, west of the city.
Milligan was taken into custody without incident and will appear in court Friday.
Milligan, who is well known to police and the courts and was the subject of another manhunt in spring 2013, was wanted on suspicion of committing a domestic assault in the Lower College Heights area on Oct. 31.
Investigators believe Milligan was in possession of a firearm during the assault and he was described as armed and dangerous when police issued an alert on Friday.
Crown counsel had approved seven charges in advance of his apprehension - one count each of assault, assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, obstruction of justice and failing to comply with probation and two counts of uttering threats.
In April 2013, Milligan was at the centre of a manhunt that forced police to close off access to as many as 100 homes in the Quinson neighbourhood before he was apprehended more than 12 hours after police received a tip he was in the area.
He was wanted for for pointing a sawed-off rifle at a house party in the 1400 block of Jarvis Street on April 3 and was in January sentenced to a year in jail less nine months time served plus one year probation after pleading guilty to the offence.
Prior to sentencing, the court heard that at the house party, a couple got into a shouting match and in response Milligan pulled a sawed-off .22 calibre rifle out of a duffle bag he had brought with him, pointed it at the man and encouraged him to stop arguing.
The two calmed down, the party resumed with everyone drinking excessively and Milligan eventually passed out. Worried about Milligan's behaviour, another man took the opportunity to remove the rifle from him and took it to a relative from where he called RCMP.
The rifle held a loaded magazine and a round in its chamber, but RCMP also discovered it was inoperable because of a burr in the gun's interior receiver. It took investigators about 10 minutes of filing to remove the burr, the court also heard.
It was also not clear if the round in the chamber was due to Milligan's actions or those of the man who took the gun away. The man admitted he did not know much about guns and may have cocked it in a misguided effort to disarm the weapon.
Milligan continues to face a charge of trafficking in a controlled substance from an alleged August 2012 incident, along with co-accused Jason Alexander Hall. That matter is set to go to trial in late August.
