MERIDEN - A 31-year-old New Britain man is charged with tampering with an investigation after police said he tried to slip a note past corrections guards asking a witness to a December 2008 incident to tell police she had misidentified him in a line-up earlier this year.

City detectives met William T. Jones to serve a warrant as he appeared for a pretrial hearing in New Haven Su-perior Court Thursday. Jones was immediately charged with tampering with a witness and conspiracy to tamper with an investigation.

Jones has remained in the custody of the state Department of Correction since May, when he was arrested and charged with assault on an officer, first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree assault, evading responsibility, reckless driving and engaging police in pursuit and has not pleaded to the charges.

The charges stem from a Dec. 12, 2008 incident in which Meriden police said he fled a traffic stop relating to a drug investigation and proceeded to run over a detective's foot while driving a rental car.