{"id":7898,"date":"2011-08-10T19:46:27","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T02:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2011-08-11T04:23:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T11:23:12","slug":"drive-by-shooting-suspect-held-on-5-million-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7898","title":{"rendered":"Drive-by shooting suspect held on $5 million bail"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"2011.0810.salmeron.bail_2\"<\/a>

Colbert A. Salmeron waits to go before a judge in Chehalis this afternoon<\/p><\/div>\n

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>
\nCHEHALIS – A handcuffed Colbert A. Salmeron, 24, was chained around his waist and ankles when he saw a judge in Lewis County Superior Court today.<\/p>\n

Judge James Lawler set bail for the drive-by shooting suspect at $5 million.<\/p>\n

Salmeron – a former resident of Centralia according to the Centralia Police Department – was free on $150,000 bail when he failed to show up for his trial in May 2007.<\/p>\n

Authorities got him deported this past May and back to the U.S. after learning he was in El Salvador. He was booked into the Lewis County Jail last night.<\/p>\n

Salmeron faces charges of first-degree assault and drive-by shooting for an incident at the 500 block of North Tower Avenue on August 26, 2006.<\/p>\n

A group of four individuals were standing next to a pickup truck in a parking lot when someone – allegedly Salmeron – fired several shots shattering its window and striking a nearby car and another truck, according to charging documents.<\/p>\n

The owner of the pickup told police he had a brief relationship with Salmeron’s ex-girlfriend, and he believed that is why they were targeted, according to charging documents.<\/p>\n

Centralia police were told Salmeron lived in Texas and was visiting town for the month at that time, charging documents state.<\/p>\n

When Centralia police got word in May that Salmeron was back in the U.S., they said shooting was believed to be gang-related and that Salmeron was associated with the Little Valley Lokotes.<\/p>\n

Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Colin Hayes asked the judge this afternoon to hold Salmeron on $5 million bail.<\/p>\n

Defense attorney Bob Schroeter asked for bail of $1 million.<\/p>\n

Judge Lawler acknowledged it was an unusually high amount, but said $5 million, cash or bond, was appropriate given the flight risk and the charges.<\/p>\n

None of four individuals in the courtroom, seemingly to observe Salmeron’s brief hearing, wanted to comment.<\/p>\n

He will be represented by defense attorney Don Blair, the lawyers said today. He is set to return to court on August 18 to set a new date for a trial.
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Read background on the case, here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS – A handcuffed Colbert A. Salmeron, 24, was chained around his waist and ankles when he saw a judge in Lewis County Superior Court today. Judge James Lawler set bail for the drive-by shooting suspect at $5 million. Salmeron – a former resident of Centralia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-7898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7898"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7905,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions\/7905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}