Ehlo Released, Told Not To Go Home

Former basketball star Craig Ehlo, seated, talks with his lawyer while waiting to make his first appearance via video on a domestic violence charge before Judge James Triplet, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 at the Spokane County Courthouse. Story here. (SR photo: Jesse Tinsley)

Craig Ehlo was released without bail Friday and ordered not to contact family members or return to his rural Spokane County home by a superior court judge. Appearing in a yellow jumpsuit via teleconference at the Spokane County Courthouse, Ehlo agreed with orders made by Superior Court Judge James Triplet not to leave Washington state and not to posses fire-starting materials. Triplet set an arraignment for Ehlo on charges of first degree reckless burning, a class C felony, Aug. 14 at 9:30 a.m. Ehlo was arrested early Thursday morning at his home in the 3300 block of East 77th Avenue after Sheriff’s Office deputies discovered him being held down by family members near a pile of his burning clothes. The gasoline-fueled fire caused damage to an awning and siding on the home, according to the Sheriff’s Office/ Kip Hill , SR. More here.

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