An unendorsed bench warrant was issued on Feb. 12 for a Penticton man who failed to appear for his planned guilty plea.

Christian Dean Leggatt, born in 1995, was set to plead guilty in a case where he has been charged with the dangerous operation of a vehicle, flight from police, driving while prohibited and multiple breach of release orders.

Which of the charges he was set to plead guilty to was not specified, as the court was unable to proceed without Leggatt present.

Attempts to contact him by the court went unanswered and directly to voicemail.

An unendorsed warrant means that once Leggatt is arrested, he will be held in custody until his next court appearance.

It was not the first time that the court had difficulties in locating Leggatt.

A trial had originally been scheduled for the case in December of 2023, but Leggatt had failed to show up and a warrant was issued at that time to force him to appear.

Leggatt has been in and out of Penticton Provincial Court since 2013.

Most notably, he was sentenced to 119 days in jail in 2015 for two counts of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and one count of assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm over two separate air pistol incidents.

During that sentence he ended up committing an assault causing bodily harm while at the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre.