A $50,000 warrant was issued for the arrest of a Poulsbo man who didn’t show up for his arraignment Friday in Jefferson County Superior Court on two felony counts of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon.

Brian James Kaveney Ruck, 32, was charged with the two felonies in November 2021.

He was arrested Nov. 21, 2021 after deputies responded to the scene of a car crash on Eaglemount Road at Grouse Lane in Port Townsend.

A witness told deputies that he had seen a Mazda RX-8 that was in the ditch after it hit a telephone pole, and a red Chevy truck was parked nearby. A man — later identified as Ruck — was seen getting out of the driver seat of the truck and helping a woman get out of the Mazda.

The man and the woman got into the truck and sped away, the witness said, and another man emerged from the Mazda with a dog and started walking south on Eaglemount Road.

The Chevy truck was later found abandoned several miles away on Lind Road. The driver’s side door was missing and the truck had extensive front end damage.

Authorities found the man who had gotten out of the Mazda walking along US 101, and he said he had been with the woman driving the Mazda, and that she was a friend, and they had met at Fat Smitty’s.

He also told deputies that the woman was dating Ruck, but she had accused Ruck of cheating on her. She also said she had seen Ruck’s phone was equipped with a GPS app that would show the location of her vehicle, and she later found a GPS device in her car and thought Ruck was tracking her, according to court documents.

Ruck found the pair, the man said, and began challenging him through the window of the Mazda. He also said Ruck started to strike the windows with something black, and cracked the windshield in several places and broke a passenger window.

He said Clark tried to drive away on Highway 20, but Ruck chased after them and tried to run the Mazda off the road.

When the woman turned onto Eaglemount Road, the man said Ruck passed them, then slammed on his brakes and opened his door.

The Mazda sheered the door off the truck as it went by.

The man said Ruck caught up to them again and used his truck to push the Mazda into the ditch. The Mazda went spinning into the ditch and hit a pole, the man said, and Ruck continued to yell at them as he approached the vehicle.

The man said he saw a 12-gauge shotgun in the back of the vehicle and when he started pulling the gun forward, it went off and fired through the front windshield.

He also said Ruck made several threats to kill both of them, but left with the woman in the Chevy.

The woman later called her mother to say she was safe and she said she didn’t know where Ruck had gone.

Ruck was a no-show in court Friday.

He made an initial appearance in court Aug. 25 and posted bail for $25,000. Noah Harrison, Ruck’s attorney, said Ruck’s grandmother had bailed him out “at great expense to her.”

Harrison said that when he posted bail, it was discovered he was wanted in Kitsap County and was transferred there.

Superior Court Judge Keith Harper set the amount of the warrant at $50,000.