Giles Carlyle-Clarke, an Englishman of aristocratic lineage who was recently extradited to the United States because of a marijuana smuggling charge dating back to the 1980s, has been granted bail set at $464,000 and will be monitored electronically while under house arrest.
He will only be released from the Baldwin County Corrections Center, Alabama, once he has drummed up the finances for the bond and has found a place to live; his lawyer, Jeff Deen, offered to let him stay at his place but U.S. Magistrate Judge William Cassady rejected this option due to “potential conflicts”.
Prosecutors will likely appeal the bail decision as Assistant U.S. Attorney Gloria Bedwell believes “he is obviously a flight risk and that he still poses a threat to the community.” In Carlyle-Clarke’s favour, although he was indicted in 1992 on charges of skippering a sailboat that was seized in 1988 with thousands of pounds of marijuana in it, he has never gone underground or run from charges against him.
