A federal magistrate in Utah has ordered a $50,000 bond among the conditions of release for one of five men charged with kidnapping a Salt Lake businessman earlier this week.
David Paul Siwiec, 28, was required to post the bond and comply with several other conditions, including a nighttime curfew, to be released from the Salt Lake County Jail, U.S. Magistrate Ronald Boyce ordered Friday.Siwiec has been jailed since his arraignment Thursday on kidnapping charges. Siweic is accused of participating in the Tuesday kidnapping of Carl Martin, 61, from his office at Allied International in Murray, an herbal health products concern.
Martin was taken to Las Vegas. A $3.5 million ransom was demanded of his son, Gregory, for his release. The money was to be deposited in a bank in Liechtenstein. But when Martin's abductors left him alone in a motel room, he escaped and flagged down police for help. Officers later arrested four men who returned to the motel driving the vehicle Martin had described.
The four men arraigned on kidnapping charges in Las Vegas were: Reginald Martin Perrett, 25; Joseph Lawrence Kleiman, 22; Sammie Lee Rucker, 30; and Byron Murphy, 26.
After their arrest, the four men implicated Siwiec, who was arrested the following day at a Roy fitness spa he manages.