The amount represented 10 percent of the $5,250 bail earlier set by the court. The rest of the amount will be posted as an unsecured bond.
“We don’t know where we are going to get the money,” Juliet Saluta, 38, told the Variety after the bail modification hearing yesterday.
Relatives and friends joined Mrs. Saluta, who is jobless, and three of her five children in the courtroom gallery as Govendo ruled on the oral arguments offered by Attorney General’s Office trial assistant Tiberius Mocanu and Assistant Public Defender Douglas Hartig.
Govendo directed Mr. Saluta to surrender his passport, to observe a 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, not to have any contact with Alejandro Orellano, and to stay away from Fina Sisu poker.
Mr. Saluta was remanded to the custody of the Department of Corrections while his wife, relatives, and friends tried to raise money for his bail.
The AGO said Mr. Saluta chased Orellano with a knife on April 19, 2009, which the defendant denied.
