{"id":27923,"date":"2019-07-18T19:42:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T01:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-charged-with-attempted-murder-denied-bond-reduction-again\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T01:42:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T01:42:42","slug":"man-charged-with-attempted-murder-denied-bond-reduction-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-charged-with-attempted-murder-denied-bond-reduction-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with attempted murder denied bond reduction again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The third time in court wasn\u2019t a charm for Anthony Pappas, a Durango native whose $100,000 bond on an attempted-murder charge was again upheld by a judge.<\/p>\n

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District Court Judge Todd Norvell on Wednesday denied Pappas\u2019 motion, filed by lawyer Joel Fry, seeking reduced bond in an effort to get Pappas out of La Plata County Jail and into an inpatient treatment program with The Raleigh House in Arvada.<\/p>\n

A letter to the court written by the director of treatment coordination at The Raleigh House says, \u201cPappas is expected to complete a minimum of 30 days while in our care and then transition to a 60-day aftercare facility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fry argued in his motion that \u201cduring the time of his arrest and in the holding cell at the Durango Police Department, Defendant exhibited behavior and made statements that could be indicative of undiagnosed mental health and\/or emotional issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statements made to police<\/a> include: \u201cI planned to kill a person\u201d; \u201cI walk around town every night with my handgun\u201d; \u201cI just wanted to save the world\u201d; and \u201cI shot a guy that was assaulting me. I didn\u2019t even kill him.\u201d Pappas had a 0.235 blood alcohol content not long before he allegedly made the statements and about 1\u00bd hours after his arrest, almost three times the 0.08 BAC limit for legal driving.<\/p>\n

Fry made a similar argument about his client\u2019s mental health at a bond hearing<\/a> before Norvell on July 5. The judge declined to reduce Pappas\u2019 bail, even though he had been accepted to The Raleigh House for \u201ca dual diagnosis treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues,\u201d according to the motion.<\/p>\n

Defense attorney David Greenberg also attempted to get Pappas\u2019 bond reduced at his first court appearance June 14, saying the $100,000 bond was \u201coutrageous\u201d and \u201cunduly oppressive \u2013 it\u2019s tantamount to no bail at all.\u201d La Plata County Judge Dondi Osborne refused to release Pappas on his word that he\u2019d make his court dates and upheld a $100,000 bond.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Norvell agreed that Pappas\u2019 bail was high, but citing the severity of charges and his comments to police, Norvell said he did not feel comfortable releasing Pappas to a public facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the facility is aware of the charges, the patients will have Mr. Pappas thrust upon them,\u201d Norvell said. \u201cThat concerns me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pappas is accused of shooting Skyler Bowers, a 25-year-old man without permanent residence, with a .40-caliber handgun in downtown Durango about 2 a.m. June 13. Bowers was treated at Mercy Regional Medical Center for a gunshot wound to his back that \u201cnarrowly missed hitting his spinal cord,\u201d according to arresting documents.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors, who said the shooting was \u201cunprovoked,\u201d charged the 22-year-old with four felonies, including attempted second-degree murder, assault, menacing and tampering with evidence.<\/p>\n

Pappas is scheduled to appear in court again Aug. 2 for a preliminary hearing to determine whether there was probable cause to believe the crimes were committed and Pappas committed them.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll be held in La Plata County Jail until bond is posted.<\/p>\n

bhauff@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anthony Pappas has asked three times for lowering of $100,000 bond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,131,2822],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-27923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-homicide","tag-justice-and-rights"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27923"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=27923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}