A young man who was the subject of an intense manhunt late in May will remain in custody for at least another week.
Garnet Colby Mcinnes, 22, made his first court appearance in Red Deer provincial court on Monday morning to answer charges laid after a series of violent incidents in Blackfalds and Red Deer.
Mcinnes was arrested peacefully in Lacombe on Tuesday, May 28, accused of numerous weapons and other offences in connection with a string of incidents earlier in the month.
He appeared disinterested during his court appearance via closed-circuit TV from the Red Deer Remand Centre, yawning, burping, looking out the window and shuffling around in the small room while the charges were read. Judge Jim Mitchell, at one point during the proceedings, warned Mcinnes to pay attention.
Charges arise from allegations of Mcinnes’s involvement in an armed robbery, kidnapping and standoff with police in Red Deer on May 14, a carjacking during which a woman was injured in the Blackfalds area on May 15, resisting arrest and assaulting two different police officers in Red Deer on May 24 and a home invasion and robbery in Red Deer on May 26.
Mcinnes was wanted on 18 outstanding warrants at the time of his arrest.
Charges against him now include multiple counts of assaulting police with a weapon, resisting police, kidnapping with a weapon, extortion with a weapon, unlawful confinement, uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, residential break and enters, armed robberies, carjacking, careless transport of firearms, possession of firearms for purposes dangerous to the public, uttering threats of death or bodily harm and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
The charges, as read, identified the weapons used as a shotgun and a .22-calibre rifle.
Mcinnes is also charged with numerous breaches of probation and court orders.
He is to return to court on Tuesday, June 12, to enter pleas and to apply for release.