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Alpena News

JORDAN SPENCE
News Staff Writer
jspence@thealpenanews.com

ROGERS CITY — The request for bond to be posted for Rev. Sylvestre Obwaka was denied by Judge Donald McLennan during a preliminary hearing on Monday.

“We ask bond be $50,000 and we post 10 percent,” Matt Wojda, one of Obwaka’s attorneys, said. “If it’s higher than that we’ll pledge realty.”

He said it’s a two step process to decide the bond issue. First, he said, there must be enough proof of guilt.

“And if they’re a flight risk is another issue,” Wojda said.

Obwaka is a native of Kenya, not a citizen of the United States, and he was assigned to St. Ignatius in 2013.