A man who surrendered to a police dog after leading deputies on an 8-mile chase from the courthouse in Coeur d’Alene to Post Falls, was bound over to district court at a Tuesday preliminary hearing.

Jacob Frey waived his probable cause hearing in First District magistrate court as a dozen Kootenai County deputies, called as witnesses in the case, waited in the hallway or in the back of the small courtroom at 501 Government Way.

Deputy prosecutor Rebecca Perez told the judge she would file an amended complaint that includes reducing one count of aggravated battery to aggravated assault, and add a deadly weapons enhancement to the charge.

Adding an enhancement can potentially increase the penalty.

After the amended charge, Frey will face one count of aggravated assault, one count of aggravated battery, eluding and the felony enhancement, as well as obstructing officers, a misdemeanor.

Frey was arrested Nov. 7 after failing to appear in court on a stalking charge. Instead he waited in a pickup truck in the courthouse parking lot and encouraged prosecutors via email to have a judge issue a warrant for his arrest.

Deputies noticed Frey’s silver GMC and began to pursue the vehicle, which drove erratically westward including on the wrong side of the highway, before it was forced to a stop in Post Falls.

Because Frey refused to exit the truck, police released a K9 that forced Frey’s surrender and arrest. Police found an armored vest, tasers, OC spray, armor piercing rounds, a handgun and a loaded AR-15 in the vehicle along with several loaded magazines, according to court records.

Frey was shackled and dressed in red and white jailhouse pajamas of high security inmates at Tuesday’s hearing. He answered simply and quietly the judge’s questions, unlike in previous hearings in which he yelled, banged his head on a table and had to be escorted from the courtroom.

He is being held on $2 million bail. An arraignment date has not been set.