MARYLAND
CBS Baltimore
Derek Valcourt
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Bail remains the same—$2.5 million—for the Episcopal church bishop charged in the December drinking and driving death of a Baltimore bicyclist.
Derek Valcourt has new information learned during Monday’s court hearing.
Prosecutors asked the judge to revoke bail. That didn’t happen, but for now, the bishop remains locked up. Her attorney says she’s unlikely to be able to come up with the $2.5 million needed to post bail.
Fifty-eight-year-old Episcopal church Bishop Heather Cook does have an alcohol problem, her attorney told a district court judge at her Monday bail review hearing. Cook’s attorney said after the fatal accident that killed bicyclist and father of two Thomas Palermo, Cook spent 12 days at Father Martin’s Ashley: a posh, non-denominational rehab facility in Havre de Grace, which boasts online of its treatment programs for alcoholism and drug addiction.
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