A slew of new charges against the man at the center of an officer-involved shooting in Astoria and resulting high-speed chase only deepen the mysteries surrounding him.

In February, officers with the Astoria Police Department responded to a call at the Lamplighter Motel, where employees had found strange items stashed in a room rented by Yevgeniy Pavlovich Savinskiy, 38, including what looked like a bomb. Using a search warrant to enter the room, officers discovered an illegal gun silencer along with an assault rifle and ammunition.

When officers confronted Savinskiy at the motel, he pulled a gun and officers opened fire, striking him in the arm. He was able to flee in a rented van, leading police on a high-speed chase until sheriffs deputies knocked his van from the road.

He was charged with 13 counts of attempted murder and recklessly endangering other people.

An amended indictment filed in Clatsop County Circuit Court last month alleges that the suspect also solicited a hitman to kill his wife, Olga Savinskiy, and one of the officers who arrested him, as well as injure the lead prosecutor in the case, Chief Deputy District Attorney Ron Brown, with a baseball bat.

The amended indictment is unclear about when the alleged discussions took place. Between Feb. 12, when Yevgeniy Savinskiy was first sent to jail, and Aug. 14, he supposedly conspired with James Russell, a fellow inmate at the Clatsop County Jail, in the murder-for-hire plot, according to the indictment.

Simply saying the new charges bring more liability against the suspect, District Attorney Josh Marquis added he could not comment on an ongoing investigation.

Questions to the Oregon State Police, whose investigators are working on unraveling why the Washougal, Wash., man showed up in Astoria with illegal weapons, were referred back to the district attorneys office.

Since his arrest in February, Yevgeniy Savinskiy has claimed that hes also been the subject of various death threats from disgruntled former business partners. Prior to his run-in with the law, Yevgeniy Savinskiy was at the center of a multi-million dollar lawsuit, which claimed he was operating a Ponzi scheme through a Northeast Portland-based business he co-owned called Luxury Auto Sales LLC.

In May, a judge in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled in the plaintiffs favor and ordered the company to pay $1.2 million in restitution.

The company, incorporated in 2009 under the name V.I.P. Wholesale Cars LLC, also filed to dissolve in May.

A related company called Luxury Auto Sale & Broker Inc., with the same address, filed for administrative dissolution with the secretary of states office on Friday.

Meanwhile, Olga and Yevgeniy Savinskiy filed a petition for divorce last year in Clark County, Wash. Olga Savinskiy was named as a party in the lawsuit filed against her husband.

Yevgeniy Savinskiys next hearing is scheduled to take place Tuesday. He is being housed at the Clatsop County Jail with bail set at $10 million.