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[Definitie:] "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance."
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3 0 - 0 1 - 2 0 0 5 Former deputy ordered back to jail
Saturday, Jan 29, 2005
COEUR d'ALENE -- Magistrate Judge Benjamin Simpson on Friday found enough evidence to order a former sheriff's deputy to stand trial for second-degree kidnapping. Simpson then increased bail and ordered Joel Raymond Saccomanno back to jail to post an additional $55,000.
Saccomanno, 30, who worked in both Bonner and Kootenai counties, was out of jail after posting $20,000 bail on his warrant arrest, alleging he took the mother of his children to his Priest River home against her will.
On Friday, a former neighbor testified she watched Saccomanno drag his ex-girlfriend from her porch as she was going to the neighbor's house for help on Nov. 16. "It appeared he was dragging her by the back of her head," said Kayla Rae Buchanan during Friday's preliminary hearing.
Buchanan repeated police allegations the ex-girlfriend "was yelling and screaming the whole time." She also said Saccomanno yelled a threat to kill at the man this ex-girlfriend was with at the time if he caught him with her again.
Saccomanno, now of Priest River, pleaded guilty earlier this month to frequenting a place where drugs are used and was sentenced to the two days in jail he served at the time of his arrest in May 2003 and fined $173.50 in court costs and fines. In exchange, prosecutors dismissed the original misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Court papers said Saccomanno implicated his brother's then-girlfriend, Mahlin "Molly" Joy Smith, after Rathdrum officers found prescription anti-anxiety drugs Clonazepam, Diazepam and Xanax at the Saccomanno home, as well as quantities of steroids and Viagra. Saccomanno could not produce prescriptions for them.
Last month, Saccomanno was also charged in Bonner County with felony assault and battery on a Priest River-based sheriff's deputy on Dec. 28. after his arrests on those new felony charges, he was released in Sandpoint on $5,000 bail.
Deputy prosecutor Art Verharen used information from that arrest to ask Simpson to increase Saccomanno's bail to $100,000. But defense lawyer Rex Finney of Sandpoint argued Saccomanno has made all of his court appearances and was not a risk to flee.
Simpson, in boosting the bail, said as a former law officer, Saccomanno should have known better than to strike a cop. "It's inexcusable," Simpson said. "I do consider you a danger to society."
Simspon then transferred the case to 1st District Judge John Mitchell for entry of plea.
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