Violent offender who once killed a fellow inmate is charged with assaulting prison guard at Kent & refuses to ‘attend’ court from Manitoba jail
Daniel Dumas repeatedly refused to leave his cell at Stony Mountain so Crown ordering him shipped to Chilliwack to appear in person
Daniel Christopher Dumas has a 2,200-kilometre trip across three provinces in his near future just because he’s being obstinate.
The 34-year-old won’t be stopping to see the sights between Stony Mountain, Manitoba, and Chilliwack. In fact, given his proclivity for violence he’ll likely be in leg shackles and handcuffs the whole way.
Dumas is co-accused facing the most serious charge of three men in connection with an assault at Kent Institution in Agassiz in February 2024, and with assaulting a corrections officer with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm at Kent in September of that year.
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He has repeatedly refused to leave his cell at Stony Mountain to attend provincial court in Chilliwack via video link, including his latest appearance date on Tuesday (April 28, 2026).
So, Crown counsel is arranging for him to be brought in person to court on May 19.
The current violence Dumas is charged with isn’t out of character for the Manitoba native who, in 2011, took part in a gang beating at the Milner Ridge jail near Winnipeg that shattered the victim’s ribs so badly he “drowned in his own blood.”
Dumas, the other attackers, and the victim were members of the Most Organized Brothers (MOB) gang housed in a gang unit at the jail. The victim, Tyler St. Paul, wanted to leave the gang so the MOB leader ordered the beating.
In 2013, he was sentenced to 11 years in prison for the 2011 manslaughter.
Dumas is repeatedly transferred around the country because of his violent behaviour when in custody.
In 2015, he took part in a group beating of an inmate.
In 2019, he lit his cell on fire and corrections officers had to use pepper spray to control him after breaking in. Two months after that, he hit a fellow inmate with the wooden handle of a squeegee.
During a strip search in 2020, Dumas hit an officer in the face causing a concussion and a chipped tooth. He was found later with a six-inch shank.
Out on statutory release in 2021, he committed several more violent crimes sending him back to prison.
In January 2025, he was let out on statutory release in Manitoba but that didn’t last long. In June 2025, Dumas randomly assaulted a 30-year-old man at The Forks in Winnipeg, an outdoor market similar to Granville Island. That victim was beaten unconscious and robbed. Dumas later threw some of the stolen belongings at a woman walking her dog, and he was linked to another random assault at a beer vendor in downtown Winnipeg an hour after the attack at The Forks.
While wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for the violence in Winnipeg, a month later in July 2025 he was arrested at an apartment building but only after jumping from a third floor and taking off.
“He continued to resist arrest, and a taser was deployed to gain control and take him into custody,” the Winnipeg Police Service said in a news release.
Back to the charges in B.C., Dumas is co-accused on a file with Kyle Zachery Hosli-Rombough and David Jeffrey Tremblay. Those two are charged with assault while Dumas is charged with the much more serious aggravated assault.
Then on Sept. 1, 2024, he is alleged to have attacked a corrections officer with a weapon and injuring him or her.
Dumas is now scheduled in Chilliwack provincial court on all those charges on May 19, an attendance that will involve an interprovincial spring order and co-operation from the Correctional Service of Canada to transport him the 2,200 kilometres from Stony Mountain to the Fraser Valley.
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