Suspected Pines peeper’s bond more than doubles to $290K
Three days after a Broward judge ordered that a suspected serial peeping Tom should be released from jail on $140,000 bond, the Pembroke Pines man was back in court to see the amount more than doubled.
Pelayo Alexander Cerulia, has a total bond of $290,000.
He had been jailed without bond since Dec. 31. Cerulia surrendered to police two days after five women publicly shared accounts of being terrorized in their homes by a masturbating manwhopeeked into their windows at night and sometimes shattered the glass with marbles slung from a slingshot.
Broward Circuit Judge Andrew Siegel on Monday issued a written ruling setting Cerulia’s bond at $140,000.
He also placed Cerulia on house arrest with a GPS electronic monitor to be served at his mother’s home in Miami-Dade County.
Cerulia had already posted that amount but had not yet been released from the Broward Main Jail when he found out he was facing two more
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now charges, his lawyer, Robert Pelier, said.
At a Thursday morning hearing, Broward County Judge John Hurley said he was “concerned about [Cerulia’s] mental state against women” and set bond at $75,000 each on thenewaggravated stalking and throwing a missile into a dwelling charges.
“I’m hopeful that the addition of these charges is not sour grapes or retaliation in the wake of Judge Siegel’s ruling,” Pelier said.
Prosecutor Kathleen Bogenschutz said the two additional charges stemmed from one of the original four victims and the multiple counts that were the basis of Cerulia’s arrest. They just “never got signed or filed,” she said.
In urging Hurley to set a high bond, Bogenschutz said:
“He’s a danger to every woman within a certain radius of him.”
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