A judge in Washington state today confirmed that if accused deserter Lance Hering of Boulder posts the $5,000 bail on charges he is a fugitive from Colorado, he will be turned over to the Marines.
A lawyer representing Hering in Port Angeles, Wash., asked the Clallam County Superior Court Judge Ken Williams to clarify the custody procedure during a hearing that lasted just minutes, according to the Peninsula Daily News in Port Angeles.
No bail has been set on the military desertion charge, which is a felony.
Hering and a high school friend allegedly staged the Marine’s disappearance in 2006, when the lance corporal was home on leave after serving seven months in Iraq. He was arrested, along with father, Lloyd Hering, Sunday afternoon at an airfield in Port Angeles on the Canadian border. His father, a pilot, had flown a rented Cessna there.
Lloyd Hering, who was charged with a misdemeanor of helping a criminal, and the family’s Colorado attorney have said Lance Hering was making plans to turn himself in at the time he was arrested.
His next court date in Port Angeles is Dec. 5.
