A Blue Ridge man serving an 18-year sentence for killing his cousin will spend an additional five years in prison for attacking the police officers who brought him from North Carolina to face the murder charge.

Roanoke Circuit Court Judge Jonathan Apgar levied that sentence on Milan Rube Goins, 49, after hearing evidence that Goins assaulted Botetourt County Capt. K.K. Parker.

According to evidence at Thursday's hearing, Goins, a painter, was a heavy drinker who often mixed alcohol with Xanax, a prescription anti-anxiety drug. On Aug. 26, Goins' cousin, David Neal Bowman, 46, of Mount Airy, N.C., was at Goins' trailer along with two other men.

Goins said Thursday he does not remember what led him to shoot and kill Bowman, though he eventually pleaded no contest to charges of second-degree murder and use of a firearm in a felony in Botetourt County Circuit Court.

On Aug. 29 police arrested Goins in North Carolina. Two Botetourt County investigators came to question Goins, only to discover he'd waived extradition. The car the investigators had arrived in did not have a mesh screen between the front and back seats. For the sake of comfort, they cuffed Goins' hands in front of his torso rather than behind his back.

On Interstate 581, authorities said, Goins deliberately threw his cuffed hands over Parker's face. Goins said in court that he had hoped the officers would shoot him to death. Instead, they subdued him with the help of an off-duty Franklin County deputy and Roanoke police.