Things just seem to be getting worse for Kirkland resident and former Seattle Sonics basketball player Robert Swift.

A fugitive for two months on an outstanding bench warrant for missing a hearing for possessing a sawed-off shotgun, Swift was arrested Jan. 5 after allegedly attempting a break-in with another man at a home in Gold Bar. He pleaded not guilty on the gun charge in King County Superior Court on Monday.

A King County judge issued the bench warrant for his arrest when he failed to show up for his court appearance in November. He remains in jail with bail set at $20,000, according to the King County Prosecutor’s Office.

The sawed-off shotgun was found along with nearly 30 other firearms during a raid by Redmond and Kirkland Police on a Juanita home in October, where Swift was living at the time. The owner of the home on the 14000 block of 108th Ave., Trygve Lief Bjorkstam, 54, has been charged by the King County Prosecutor’s Office with buying, manufacturing and selling methamphetamine and heroin.

Swift had been previously evicted out of his Sammamish home after it was foreclosed. At the time of the October police raid, he had been living in Bjorkstam’s home for six months, according to police documents. Following the raid he was detained and brought to the Redmond Police Department, where he told investigators that he helped “clean the place up,” but wasn’t involved in the drug dealing. He admitted, according to the documents, that he had a heroin addiction and got his heroin from Bjorkstam.

Swift also told investigators that he had accompanied Bjorkstam to confront a drug dealer who had failed to give him $2,000 heroin. Swift stated that both of them were armed during the confrontation, the documents continue.

The Reporter first broke the news that Swift was living in the Kirkland home after discovering that police had been called to the residence in the days following the raid. The police reports, obtained through a public information request, repeatedly mentioned Swift, and Kirkland police later confirmed his identity.

Swift was selected by the Sonics with the 12th pick in the 2004 NBA draft.

Swift will be back in court on Jan. 26 for a case setting hearing.