A former drug "kingpin" who ended up in a chicken coop-style shed looking for a weapon while fleeing from police officers initially thwarted their physical resistance and their tasers.
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But during the confrontation, he was brought down after a trailer collapsed under his weight.
Thor Sven Kristiansen, 33, appeared via audio-visual link in the ACT Magistrates Court on Wednesday for sentencing after pleading guilty to numerous charges, including assaulting a police officer, resisting police and unauthorised possession of a firearm.
Court documents state that on March 18 this year, ACT Policing pulled Kristiansen over during a patrol in Chiefly and told him he was under arrest for allegedly breaching parole.
He fled the scene, prompting a chase into a backyard where he entered a chicken coop-like storage shed.
There, he looked around frantically for what could be used as a weapon, but once police reached him, he was tasered.
It must've been a very concerning incident for police ... nothing in their usual range of resources were working.
- Magistrate Beth Campbell
However, he got back onto his feet and ran out, leading to more police attempts to arrest him.
He was tasered again.
He also grabbed an officer's arm before jumping onto a trailer to try to jump a fence, but the trailer collapsed on him, allowing his arrest.
Kristiansen was released to parole on February 24 this year and one of the conditions was for him not to contact his on-and-off-again partner.
On the same day he was released, the pair allegedly shared a meal at a McDonald's.
In June 2020, Kristiansen also resisted police officers when they approached him at a Kambah premises.
"The defendant was highly agitated and wearing only a bath towel around his waist," the statement of facts read.
He yelled at police: "F--- off ... what are you going to do - shoot me?"
He then sat inside a Volkswagen and revved it before reversing it into a police car.
Police had to use capsicum spray, a Taser and a canine to finally bring him down.
They then found numerous stolen items in the car, including a handgun-style gel blaster.
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In court, magistrate Beth Campbell said the resistance was "probably one of the most significant examples of this type of offending that has come before me".
"It must've been a very concerning incident for police ... nothing in their usual range of resources were working," Ms Campbell said.
Defence lawyer Paul Edmonds conceded his client assaulted an officer during the March altercation but that was not the case in the earlier one.
"The whole thing would've taken less than five minutes and whilst it's accepted that the police had to use a lot of resources and force ... the resources were on hand," Mr Edmonds said.
He said that because of the "large number of resources to deal with the worst case scenario", Kristiansen "was never going anywhere".
However, Crown prosecutor Keegan Lee said the resistance was not temporary and that the assault impacted the officer.
"It was not until there was a taser on a couple occasions, [capsicum] spray and then a canine that they were able to get him out of the car," Mr Lee said.
"He was still resisting even when he was out of the car."
Legal issues surrounding his sentencing meant his case was adjourned to January with the magistrate saying Kristiansen was not "going to be released in the next few months in any event".
He will also be sentenced for numerous traffic offences.
He initially pleaded not guilty to some of the charges before changing his pleas.
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