The Penticton Provincial Court issued its latest warrants to bring in a prolific offender with a history of skipping out on court dates. 

Afshin Maleki Ighani had warrants issued on May 2 for two different criminal cases proceeding against him.

The first, dating back to an incident allegedly taking place in Okanagan Falls on Nov. 30, 2023, has Ighani facing charges of wilfully resisting or obstructing an officer and driving while prohibited. 

The second is for charges of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose dating to an incident on Sept. 29, 2024. 

An additional charge of breaching his release order was added to the second case in February. 

Warrants for Ighani on the two cases were issued in December, January and now most recently May 2. 

A trial is currently scheduled in June for the threat and weapon-possessing case. 

A warrant was also issued in B.C. Family Court in March of 2024 after he failed to show up for a scheduled appearance regarding thousands of dollars in unpaid child and spousal support over the last 20 years. 

Ighani had been before the courts in 2020 for sentencing of time served for five assault charges relating to two separate assaults at Okanagan Correctional Centre (OCC) for which he had earlier pleaded guilty.

The 52-year-old had been in jail since April 22, 2017.

According to court documents, in 2017, Ighani stabbed fellow inmate Peter Beckett, who is serving time for the 2010 first-degree murder of his wife and convicted child molester David McHale.

The other charge related to the 2018 assault of a female OCC officer who received 香蕉视频直播渟evere bruising香蕉视频直播� while attempting to return him to his cell.

Ighani got his notoriety in 2017 when he was arrested following a Canada-wide man-hunt on kidnapping charges. He was charged with 10 kidnapping and weapons offences in relation to an incident that took place in Okanagan Falls and Princeton where he was eventually caught.

During the crime spree, it香蕉视频直播檚 alleged that Ighani shot Thomas Szajko, leading to a major police presence on a quiet residential street in the town of Oliver, where Ighani was believed to have been staying in a camper trailer.

While police were looking for him, he allegedly kidnapped two people, who were later identified as key witnesses and who had agreed to drive him from Okanagan Falls to the Lower Mainland for $400. On the way, he took control of the vehicle and forced them to turn off on a logging road between Princeton and Manning Park.

The vehicle stopped about six kilometres along the road, where one of them was forced to get out and start digging.

Police at the time said all three were people who were known to each other.

He was acquitted of all of those charges after defence lawyer Paul McMurray convinced the presiding judge there was sufficient doubt relating to the testimony of the two key crown witnesses, one of who fled to the United States after testifying.

Attempted murder and weapons charges against Ighani relating to the shooting of Szajko were stayed after Szajko, the key witness, died months later of an unrelated cause.