Lac Seul Police laid charges following a 'home invasion'

SIOUX LOOKOUT, ON — Adam Capay, the man whose lengthy jail stay in solitary confinement captured national headlines, remained in custody Thursday awaiting the disposition of numerous criminal charges.

The 26-year-old resident of Kejick Bay on the Lac Seul First Nation was arrested by the Lac Seul Police Service, along with a co-accused male, following an incident at a local residence.

Police describe the May 30 incident as a home invasion, saying two people entered the residence and assaulted two victims.

Capay is charged with two counts of assault, break and enter, uttering threats and overcome resistance.

According to the Criminal Code of Canada, "overcome resistance" relates to "attempts, by any means, to choke, suffocate or strangle another person, or by any means calculated to choke, suffocate or strangle, attempts to render another person insensible, unconscious or incapable of resistance."

Capay is also charged with failure to comply with a recognizance.

He was arrested in Sioux Lookout in March on a charge of sexual assault with a weapon.

Six weeks before that, a charge of first-degree murder was stayed, and he was released from custody after spending more than four-and-a-half years in administrative segregation at the Thunder Bay and Kenora jails.

Capay is scheduled for a bail hearing on Friday.

None of the charges he faces have been proven in court.