A 37-year-old homeless man who was facing trial later this month for alleged burglary, theft, possession of a stolen vehicle, and resisting arrest was jailed again last week for assaulting a police officer and trying to grab a deputy’s Taser.

Zachary Abel Christensen was arrested just after midnight Monday, March 28 following a four-hour search in Chimacum.

Deputies were called to a home on Center Road after a man later identified as Christensen was seen wandering around a property where thefts had been reported earlier.

The first deputy at the scene saw a man matching the description of the reported intruder, and the man ducked into a forested area on the property near Dabob Road.

The man had something large in his hands, and he started running when a deputy tried to stop him.

The deputy gave chase, and said he recognized the running man as Christensen, who was known to officers due to prior police contacts.

In the deputy’s report, he said Christensen refused to stop and started wrestling with the officer as the deputy tried to place him under arrest.

“Christensen shoved and yanked me around, ripping my earpiece from my ear and ripping the mic from my vest,” the deputy wrote in a statement of probable cause for Christensen’s arrest. “We continued to roll in the gravel as he tried to get away.”

At one point, Christensen said “he was going to give up,” according to court documents, but he slipped out of his sweatshirt as the deputy took out his handcuffs and ran away.

After Christensen went into thick brush, a drone was brought in to search for him.

The drone found Christensen as he was making his way through the brush, and after hours of tracking him, another deputy tried to stop him and Christensen again resisted arrest, according to court records.

A deputy shot him with a Taser, but Christensen allegedly continued to resist and tried to grab the Taser away from the deputy.

Other deputies arrived and Christensen was taken into custody. Deputies searching the area where he had fled found items he had dropped during the chase; a light green electric guitar that had been wrapped in a sleeping bag.

Christensen is facing two new felony charges in Jefferson County Superior Court; third-degree assault of a law enforcement officer and attempted disarming of a law enforcement officer.

Both charges carry maximum sentences of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine upon conviction.

Christensen was also charged with resisting arrest and second-degree criminal trespassing.

He was jailed on $25,000 bond.

Christensen was scheduled to face trial April 15 on five counts of second-degree burglary, third-degree theft, possession of a stolen vehicle, obstructing a law enforcement officer, and resisting arrest.

Those charges stem from an August incident where he tried to climb through the window of a home on Discovery Road but was pepper sprayed by the woman who lived there.

He was later found by a deputy  near the grocery store on Four Corners Road and Highway 20, where he had purchased a carton of milk to stop the sting from the pepper spray.

Christensen was later connected to a truck that had been stolen from its parking spot outside a Port Ludlow restaurant.

He was also accused of going to a home on Oak Bay Road where he thought a deputy lived to settle a dispute, according to court papers, and allegedly entered a shed on the property and took yogurt and a can of beans.

Deputies eventually found him in Quilcene near the Hood Canal Ranger District office, where he fled from a deputy, dropping a large alarm clock that had been in his pocket as he ran away.

During a struggle during his arrest, Christensen was shot with a Taser when he wouldn’t surrender.

Christensen was arraigned on the four new charges Friday in Jefferson County Superior Court. His trial was set for May 23.