CAL FIRE employee arrested in India released on bond

Thursday, May 1, 2008

CAL FIRE employee arrested in India released on bond

INDIA- CAL FIRE employee and mother arrested in India on Arms charges have been released on bail.

After a couple of bullets that had fallen into a umbrella after a hiking trip were found in their luggage India charges the two tourist's like terrorists, They went through security at LA, Taipei and New Delhi at least twice previously undetected seems they have embarrassed a few security folks....

The mother, Monica Bond, is a former nurse, and daughter Heather Bond works for Cal Fire on the Central Coast.

57-year-old Monica Bond and her daughter, 37-year-old Heather Bond, were arrested earlier this month after airport officials found bullets and a ammunition clip in their luggage.

The amunition and clip belonged with a gun carried on hiking trips in California and had mistakenly fallen into the umbrella which was packed into luggage.

According to India's "The Statesman" newspaper a judge released the two women, but told them not to leave the country until the case is resolved.

They face charges under the Indian Arms Act, which carries a sentence of three to seven years.

The Statesman article:
Court grants bail to US nationals
Section: North Bengal & Sikkim Date:May 01,2008
Statesman News Service SILIGURI, April 30: The American mother-daughter duo arrested from the Bagdogra airport on 14 April for carrying live cartridges in their registered baggage has been released on bail. Granting them conditional bail this afternoon,

Court grants bail to US nationals

Statesman News Service
SILIGURI, April 30: The American mother-daughter duo arrested from the Bagdogra airport on 14 April for carrying live cartridges in their registered baggage has been released on bail.
Granting them conditional bail this afternoon, the Siliguri Additional Sessions Judge (First Court), Mr Justice Pinaki Ranjan Jha has asked the two women US nationals not to leave India till the case was disposed off and also to appear before the investigating officer (IO) after every 15-days.
The court has further ordered that the American women would not get back their passports and visas till the case was resolved and asked the IO to keep the same in his custody.
The American mother-daughter duo, Mrs Monica Bond (57) and Miss Heather Bond (37), hailing from Santa Barbara in California, were booked under Section 25 (i) (A) and 35 of the Arms Act 1959.

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