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Mary G. Bond, 37, poses in a county mugshot June 6 for the second time in as many months
In the same June 6 hearing when a lawyer successfully motioned to be removed as representation for an alleged conwoman, a prosecutor revealed the defendant had again pilfered a politician’s campaign account and failed to charge her GPS ankle monitor for three months, earning her a jail stay lasting – at least – until her trial.
Criminal Court Judge John Stevens revoked the bond of courtroom regular Mary Genevive Bond, 37, Monday morning. But this time she won’t have a chance to make bail, as Judge Stevens gave the defendant no bond after agreeing to a request from the District Attorney’s Office to jail the woman.
As of June 6, grand juries have indicted Bond for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle for stealing a car from Enterprise Rent-A-Car and securing a document by deception. Prosecutors have also accused her of stealing more than $30,000 from a local apartment complex, attempting to extort State Representative Joe Deshotel and stealing thousands from his right-hand man.
Prosecutor Daniel Boyd informed the court of a yet-to-be-released probable cause affidavit detailing Bond’s latest theft. Bond allegedly used banking information from the campaign account of District 22 State Representative candidate Christian “Manuel” Hayes, on whose campaign she previously worked. Those allegations are outlined in previous pages of The Examiner.
According to testimony from Sharla Woods, a representative from the company monitoring Bond’s GPS anklet, the defendant hasn’t properly charged her device for three months. Additionally, Bond allegedly failed to alert the company that she changed her phone number, yet another violation of her bond conditions.
Adding further fuel to the pre-trial fire Bond faced Monday, Woods told Judge Stevens the defendant has actually only paid for four months out of the 16 she should have paid, culminating in $2,700 in owed fees for the ankle monitor. In fact, when Woods went to retrieve the device upon Bond’s bond revocation, the GPS monitor wasn’t even on her ankle.
Handcuffed and sitting in the jury box while her lawyer Ryan Gertz privately explained to the judge a “conflict of interest” that should relieve him of representation duties, Bond told Woods the monitor was gone because Woods’ husband removed it in February.
Judge Stevens granted Gertz’s motion and appointed David Grove to represent Bond’s upcoming trial, which has yet to be set. As of publication, Bond was listed on the Jefferson County inmate roster with no bond amount.
For more on the story, pick up a copy of The Examiner June 9.