Kidnapper faces dangerous offender hearing
Crime spree committed after release from jail
A dangerous offender hearing has been set for a Calgary man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a young woman during a four-day crime spree in November 2008.
The hearing for Michael Peter Nadolnick was set Wednesday by provincial court Judge Allan Fradsham for June 18 to 22, June 26 to 28 and Aug. 7 to 10. The hearing is being split because of scheduling difficulties.
If designated a dangerous offender, Nadolnick would face an indefinite jail sentence.
Nadolnick, 44, also committed three robberies, including carjack- ing a 68-year-old man at gunpoint with an imitation handgun on Nov. 10, 2008.
He then used the fake weapon to kidnap a young woman from a northeast business and sexually assault her over several hours as they drove around the city.
On Nov. 12 he approached an employee at a bank in the 500 block of 16th Avenue N.E., showed a handgun and demanded money.
He fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Two days later, Nadolnick approached a woman from behind as she was unloading her minivan on Doverglen Crescent S.E. and demanded her keys.
When the woman refused, he began punching her and tried to push her into the back of the van.
During the struggle, Nadolnick smashed the victim’s head against the pavement, causing severe injuries to her face.
Police arrested Nadolnick that day, Nov. 14.
At the time he was on statutory release, having served the required two-thirds of a sentence for his part in a violent home invasion in which the victim was slashed 14 times with a steak knife.
Nadolnick also pleaded guilty in January to assaulting a peace officer, escaping lawful custody and robbery stemming from a brief escape last November.
He was on a medical escort when he ran from two Calgary Remand Centre guards and carjacked a woman.
Nadolnick was able to escape by fashioning a plastic key he used to unlock handcuffs and leg irons while on his way to a medical appointment.
When two remand centre guards opened the back door of the vehicle to get Nadolnick, he struck one of them on the head and ran.
He then forced a woman out of her truck and started to drive away, but a witness used his vehicle to block the truck.
The two remand guards — along with the woman he carjacked — wrestled Nadolnick to the ground and handcuffed him.
Fradsham set sentencing for that set of charges to Feb. 21.
Defence lawyer Margaret Keelaghan agreed the sentence would be at least two years and that her client should be able to be transferred from remand to a prison setting.
Nadolnick had sought to have the Crown drop its bid to have him declared a dangerous offender because he had been kept 25 days too long for assessment at the southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatric Centre.
However, the judge ruled that the report by the psychiatrist was prepared in the time allowed by the Criminal Code, thus the application was denied.
Crown prosecutor Beverley Bauer, who made the application to have Nadolnick declared dangerous, said she will decide later whether to have the charges relating to the escape be part of the dangerous offender hearing.