Brian Anthony Williams, a 50-year-old chef, appeared before a judge Monday after was he arrested outside a Mission Beach restaurant by U.S. Marshals last week.<\/p>\n
In San Diego, Williams was going by the name \u201cTroy\u201d and worked as the head chef at Miss B\u2019s Coconut Club in Mission Beach for over a decade. During his court appearance, Williams confirmed his identity as Brian. <\/p>\n
Authorities said Williams was wanted in Scott County, Iowa, in connection with a 2012 case involving allegations of kidnapping, assault, shooting and arson.<\/p>\n
Investigators allege Williams and three other men staged a kidnapping, assault and shooting of his reported girlfriend, Brittany Hamilton, because he wanted to end their relationship.<\/p>\n
Police said Williams and Hamilton were living together when they were both duct taped and taken to a field. Hamilton was shot in the leg and left in a ditch, while Williams walked to a local truck stop to report what happened, according to a news article from Iowa at the time. <\/p>\n
The same Iowa article said Williams and the other men then set fire to the home of Hamilton\u2019s new boyfriend and that no one was injured.<\/p>\n
After the 2012 case, authorities said Williams left Iowa and remained on the run for 14 years.<\/p>\n
Eddie Jurado, who runs the restaurant and once lived with Williams, said the arrest came as a shock to those who knew him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don’t know who he was. Like who is he? He was a good guy here. Loved by everybody,” said Jurado.<\/p>\n
Jurado said he was also concerned about the restaurant\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n
Authorities are now working to return him to Iowa, where the alleged crimes took place. Williams faces multiple charges, including unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree arson.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC San Diego. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC San Diego journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Anthony Williams, a 50-year-old chef, appeared before a judge Monday after was he arrested outside a Mission…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3552,74,84,76,75],"class_list":["post-494231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}