The "muscle" in a notorious and near-fatal swarming attack is back in custody.
Charges have been approved against Hayden Lee Alwood, 26, RCMP said this week, after he allegedly fled police at a traffic stop in Quesnel on Friday.
Alwood got as far as Williams Lake before he was apprehended in what police called a "high risk" arrest that involved a spike belt and, when that failed to work, police boxing in the vehicle.
Alwood faces eight charges from the incident including one of assaulting a police officer with a weapon. The driver had taken a run at one of the officers during the attempt to evade arrest, RCMP said.
A gun was found in the vehicle following the arrest, RCMP said, but none of the charges are related to firearms.
In April 2016, Alwood was sentenced to a further three years in federal prison for a January 2013 "vicious, cowardly" swarming-style attack against two youths at a Prince George apartment building.
Co-accused Mercedes Rae Jewett was sentenced to a further three years and seven months. While Alwood was described as the "muscle," Jewett was found to have been the ringleader in an attack that left one of the youths with a brain injury and ongoing anxiety.
Jewett had maintained the two had snuck into her bedroom and sexually assaulted her and a friend while they slept, an allegation a judge found completely baseless.
The court found Alwood pulled the victim's pants down before he was sodomized several times with a mop handle. Others then repeatedly kicked the victim in the head and hit him with a frying pan. Then he was dragged, unconscious, and dumped in a snow bank behind an apartment building in the 1600 block of Juniper Street near Connaught Hill Park.
Alwood remains in custody on the latest incident pending a court appearance on December 23 in Williams Lake.
