A Wasilla man accused of shooting a woman driving his car — which had been sold without his knowledge — was arrested Thursday on federal charges including carjacking stemming from the January incident.
Peter Boyer, 51, remained in custody Friday at the Cook Inlet Pretrial Facility.
Boyer’s girlfriend sold his 2011 Nissan Rogue to a woman and her boyfriend late last year without telling him, according to a memorandum in support of detention filed by Assistant U.S. Attorney James Klugman. Boyer believed the SUV had been stolen and began to track it down, the memorandum said.
Boyer messaged the parents of the woman who purchased the SUV and told them it was in “everyone’s best interest that I get it back immediately, before things get bad,” the memorandum said.
On Jan. 3, Boyer was dropped off by a tow truck while the woman was in the SUV outside a Wasilla home, according to separate state charges filed in the same incident. He held her at gunpoint and demanded the vehicle before he shot her in the leg and drove away, the memorandum said. She later told police she had never seen Boyer before, the state charges said.
The woman was brought to the Mat-Su Regional Medical Center for a gunshot wound to her calf, the state charges said. Police tied Boyer to the shooting because of a prior criminal case that involved a tow truck and also because he’d reported the SUV stolen in late December, the charges said.
Boyer was arrested in January on state charges of robbery and four counts of assault. Charges accusing him of tampering with or bribing a witness were filed in February. Boyer pleaded guilty in August to a single count of bribing a witness in a combined plea agreement that also called for him to plead guilty to a count of burglary in a separate case. All of the other charges were dismissed and he was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison.
Boyer appeared in federal court Thursday on charges of carjacking and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison if he’s convicted.