Bond's plea hearing scheduled for July 10
A Horton resident facing charges of sex-related crimes against a child in two counties — Jackson and Brown — has been scheduled to enter new pleas on his Brown County charges this afternoon, but will wait until July to enter new pleas on the Jackson County charges.
On Friday morning in Jackson County District Court, Judge Micheal Ireland set a Friday, July 10 date for Dallas Bond, 20, to enter pleas on charges of rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child, aggravated kidnapping, two counts of sexual exploitation of a child and aggravated endangering a child. Bond is being held at the Jackson County Detention Center on $100,000 bond, it was reported.
In Brown County, Bond has been charged with sexual exploitation of a child, electronic solicitation of a child, aggravated kidnapping, identity fraud and theft, and his bond on those charges has been set at $750,000. All charges against Bond in both counties are felonies, it was reported.
The July 10 plea hearing date here is likely to follow a sentencing in Brown County, the date for which was expected to be set after a new plea hearing there this afternoon, Jackson County Attorney Shawna Miller said. Previously, Bond had entered not guilty pleas to all charges in both counties.
On Friday, Holton attorney J. Richard Lake, who is representing Bond on the Jackson County charges, said Bond had reached a plea agreement with Hill in Brown County, where Bond is being represented by Hiawatha attorney Andrew DeLaney. DeLaney estimated that the Brown County sentencing date would be set during the first full week of July.
Ireland acknowledged that both Lake and DeLaney were “working to get this all cleared up” with the situation in both counties and asked both attorneys to let him know if the Brown County sentencing had not occurred by July 10. If that is the case, Ireland said, he would order a new plea hearing date for Bond.
All charges against Bond stem from an alleged August 2013 incident in which Bond reportedly had sexual intercourse with a child who was nine years old at the time.
A former employee of the Brown County Sheriff’s Office, Bond allegedly formulated an “elaborate scheme,” in the words of Brown County Attorney Kevin Hill, to bring the nine-year-old girl from Brown County to Jackson County for sexual purposes, it was reported. He allegedly created a false EMS training event in Holton as part of his scheme to lure the girl, who was reportedly an acquaintance of Bond, to a hotel in Holton.
