Bond reduced for man who allegedly threatened detention officers
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Daniel James Kenmille
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POLSON – Bond was reduced last week for a man facing multiple charges of assault and intimidation.
Judge James A. Manley reduced bond from $200,000 to $25,000 for Daniel James Kenmille, 53, for assault on a peace officer and intimidation charges stemming from an Oct. 18 incident in the Lake County Jail.
Defense attorney Britt Cotter had asked for the reduction. Cotter also requested that Manley transfer Kenmille to the Sanders County Jail “where there’s no hypertension with the officers.”
Cotter said Kenmille broke out of the Lake County Jail in 1991 and later served 15 years in prison.
Manley denied the request to transfer Kenmille and also declined to order the jail to take him out of solitary confinement.
Defense attorney Glen Neier, who is representing Kenmille on an assault charge stemming from an Aug. 14 incident in which he allegedly stabbed a man in the face at a Pablo residence, said that Kenmille can live with his sister in Pablo upon his release.
Both attorneys requested that Kenmille wear a GPS monitoring device when he is released. Manley granted that request should Kenmille post bond. Bond in the Aug. 14 case had already been set at $25,000.
In court on Jan. 4, Joel Shearer of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office testified that when Kenmille was arrested following the Aug. 14 incident, he told detention officers in the jail about his prior escape. Shearer said he took that as a warning.
Shearer said Kenmille was Tased once in the Oct. 18 incident in the jail and needed medical attention. Shearer said Kenmille was put into solitary confinement on Nov. 3.
Shearer said that Kenmille threatened officers on Dec. 10 when he advised a male detention officer that his wife should stay away from his cell door because he was going to assault officers when the door was opened.
An intimidation charge was filed against Kenmille in District Court on Dec. 29 for the Dec. 10 incident.
He is scheduled for jury trials in the first two cases on March 6 and May 15.
