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Zobel will be transported to Dayton to face bond revocation hearing
DAYTON — A Michigan church music director charged with the sexual assault of two Xenia girls will be transferred to Dayton for a bond hearing, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, June 16.
U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Rose also ordered that a magistrate’s decision to release David Jeremy Zobel on bond be stayed pending the resolution of federal prosecutors’ motion to revoke bond. The order notes that Zobel has waived removal proceedings in the Eastern District of Michigan.
On Monday, a U.S. magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Michigan ordered Zobel be released on $10,000 bond.
Three days earlier, FBI agents arrested Zobel in connection with the sexual assault of two Xenia girls ages 12 and 13 in Toledo, FBI officials said.
Zobel, 32, of Ann Arbor, Mich., has been charged in a federal complaint with one count of interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. If convicted, Zobel could face up to 30 years in prison.
According to an FBI affidavit in the case, Zobel admitted to agents he had engaged in online sexual dialogue with one of the girls, whom he believed to be 16, since November 2008. He also admitted driving to Xenia, picking up that girl and a friend who wanted to run away, and driving them to Toledo.
FBI special agent Michael Brooks said Zobel has denied sexually assaulting the girls, but agents found sexually explicit pictures of the girls on a camera when they searched Zobel’s home.
The criminal complaint alleges that Zobel drove the girls only to Toledo because he feared transporting two underage girls across state lines. But the girls told Toledo police that once there, Zobel drove to a parking garage, locked the doors of his car and refused to open them until the girls performed sexual acts.
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