A Prince George man who is well known to police now faces several more charges as a result of the seizure of a cache of guns when he was arrested last month.
Ryan John Moore, 23, was originally charged only with obstructing a peace officer, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, and breach of recognizance for allegedly being out past his court-imposed curfew when he was arrested May 16.
But this week, 15 firearms-related charges were added to the list in connection to the recovery of six guns as well as numerous rounds of ammunition and several high-capacity magazines from a vehicle he was alleged to have used to escape the scene when police swooped in on a rural gravel pit.
Police had been called to the site on the Teardrop Forest Service Road after receiving a tip that a man already under investigation for possession of firearms and connections to organized crime was headed to that location.
When they arrived, they overheard bursts of gunfire, which officers determined was coming from at least one automatic weapon, RCMP said at the time. A man and two female passengers refused to stop at a police roadblock, instead driving off the road before abandoning their vehicle.
Within about four hours, Moore and four others had been apprehended.
The weapons seized were a .40 calibre Smith and Wesson pistol, a Kel Tec 9mm semi-automatic assault-style rifle and two 7.62mm SKS semi-automatic assault-style rifles.
Moore is the son of Billy Moore, the president of the Prince George Renegades Motorcycle Club, a puppet group of the Vancouver Hells Angels, who died under mysterious circumstances in 2005. Police are treating the incident as a murder.
In October 2013, Moore was found not guilty of a long list of charges related to the seizure of a large cache of stolen firearms from his Prince George townhouse in November 2011.
There was a suggestion the guns had been planted in the home's attic without Moore's knowledge. A day prior to a police raid on the home, Moore had been in RCMP custody and was released in the morning while a search warrant on the home was executed that night.
He was found guilty of trafficking in heroin and cocaine after admitting to selling drugs to support his own heroin addiction. Police found 110.48 grams of heroin and 1.24 grams of cocaine in the home.
Moore was sentenced to time served on those counts and to a further two years probation. He had been in custody for 22 months on the charges less 30 days for breaching a recognizance after he was found overdosed on heroin.
Moore remained in custody following a bail hearing in Prince George provincial court on Wednesday, the same day the new charges were added.
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