A C.B.S. man who’s been keeping RCMP busy in the Conception Bay area was returned to custody after a court date yesterday.

35-year-old Matthew Scott faces dozens of charges involving drugs, guns, driving offences, break-ins, thefts and violent assaults.

Twice this past year RCMP were forced to deploy multiple units to track down, corner and arrest Scott following various violent crimes.

In June he was arrested after a high-risk takedown in Marysvale that included officers from Bay Roberts, Harbour Grace and Holyrood, as well as police negotiators, a K-9 unit and Emergency Response Team.

Scott was eventually released on bail.

But, in December he again caused mayhem by fleeing from police, who were trying to arrest him for breaching release conditions.

That operation involved RCMP from Holyrood, Ferryland and Traffic Services East, who flattened Scott’s tires with a spike belt and arrested him after a foot chase in Chapel’s Cove.

Scott is also known to police in connection with the 2016 armed robbery of the Sunset Motel in Kelligrews.

He’s due back in provincial court on February 3rd to enter pleas to some of the charges.