Jacob Allison, the teenager charged with murder last spring in connection with three Lookout Valley slayings, was arrested in Alabama last week after leaving the state without permission and leading police on a high-speed chase through three counties.
Allison, 16, faced Judge Barry Steelman on Monday with red-rimmed eyes. The judge revoked his $525,000 bond, and Allison wept as deputies led him out of the courtroom.
According to The Greenville Advocate, Crenshaw County sheriff's deputies said Allison and two others were heading north from a weekend in Florida when they were stopped for a driver's license check. Allison, who was driving, sped away from a deputy who asked to see his license.
Defense attorney Martin Levitt, right, talks with defendant Jacob Allison, center, during a hearing Friday, Aug. 22, 2014, in juvenile court in Chattanooga.Allison was eventually stopped in Montgomery County, Ala., and charged with reckless endangerment and eluding police, according to the newspaper. A third passenger was charged with possession of marijuana after he apparently admitted drugs found in the car's console belonged to him. Allison was booked into the Crenshaw County Jail and released Tuesday on $3,000 bond.
"It is routine for a state to file a motion to revoke [bond] when someone picks up new charges," Allison's attorney, Lee Davis, said.
In Hamilton County, Allison was the only one of three people charged in connection with the Lookout Valley slayings to have made bond. Police say Skyler Allen, 23, and Derek Morse, 20, shot four men near an RV campground off Kellys Ferry Road last April. Prosecutors said Allison was their driver. He was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder, and was released in August on $525,000 bond after a judge ruled he would be tried as an adult in the case.
On Monday, Hamilton County District Attorney General Neal Pinkston requested Allison's bond be raised based on the facts of the Alabama incident. Davis said the state's position was "reasonable." Steelman said he considered tripling Allison's bond, but decided instead to revoke it entirely.
Davis requested that Allison be held at CCA Silverdale Detention Facility because Allen and Morse are being held at the Hamilton County Jail. Allison is scheduled to appear before Steelman again April 23.
Contact staff writer Claire Wiseman at 423-757-6347 or cwiseman@timesfreepress.com. Follow her on Twitter @clairelwiseman.
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