A 24-year-old man charged this week for allegedly assaulting a Burnaby Mountie with his car while still under house arrest for a North Vancouver sexual assault plans to apply for bail with electronic monitoring.
Jairus-Paul Covacha Sacramento faces one count each of dangerous driving, flight from police and assaulting a police officer with his car for an incident on Royal Oak Avenue by Deer Lake Park Sunday.
According to allegations presented at a bail hearing Tuesday, a police officer tried to pull Sacramento over for speeding, but Sacramento sped off, hitting the Mountie's forearm with his car’s side mirror in the process.
Crown prosecutor Kathleen Lafontaine said Sacramento had been under house-arrest conditions at the time because he had groped a woman on a North Vancouver trail in March 2022.
The Crown opposed Sacramento's release, saying he had already been charged with breaching the terms of his sex assault sentence twice before the Burnaby incident.
Defence lawyer Tom Spettigue said Sacramento should be released on a $200 deposit, but Tuesday's bail hearing was abandoned because Sacramento wanted time to come up with more money.
During Sacramento's next appearance Thursday, however, Spettigue applied for a technical suitability report.
Technical suitability reports are required in order for people to be released on electronic supervision, according to a court form on the B.C. government website.
B.C. provincial court Judge Patricia Janzen ordered the report.
Sacramento will return for another bail hearing in about two weeks once the report is complete.
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