Bond Revoked In Malicious Mischief Case
March 31, 2017 at 8:58 p.m.
By Michael [email protected]
Kosciusko Superior Court I Judge David Cates revoked the bond for Travis Spoor, 37, Silver Lake, during a closed hearing Thursday.
Spoor faces 13 felony charges in four counties on allegations he failed to notify the women he had sex with that he was HIV-positive.
Spoor is scheduled for a jury trial June 13 in Kosciusko County on two counts of malicious mischief involving bodily fluids. The charge results from an arrest in 2016 after a victim said she had unprotected sex with him four times and her friend had told her Spoor was sick. She said Spoor was taking “a lot of pills,” according to court records. Spoor sent a text message denying he was HIV-positive.
Spoor bonded out and police found more victims. He was later arrested in Marshall, Wabash and Allen counties on similar charges. He bailed out of jail in every county.
He is scheduled for a jury trial in August in Allen County.
On March 14, Spoor was again arrested in Kosciusko County after a woman told police she met Spoor, who was using a false identity, online and had unprotected sex with him. Amid the media reports, another victim came forward.
Spoor was taken to Kosciusko County Jail. After this arrest, Wabash revoked his bond there. While in jail, yet another victim came forward.
Both counties revoking Spoor’s bonds may seem like duplication, but it provides a way to keep someone in jail, said Chief Deputy Prosecutor Katy Hampton.
“What if they (Wabash) change their mind?” she said.
Thirty-two states have “duty to warn” laws requiring infected people to tell sexual partners they have the HIV virus. Indiana passed its duty to warn law in 1993.
Kosciusko Superior Court I Judge David Cates revoked the bond for Travis Spoor, 37, Silver Lake, during a closed hearing Thursday.
Spoor faces 13 felony charges in four counties on allegations he failed to notify the women he had sex with that he was HIV-positive.
Spoor is scheduled for a jury trial June 13 in Kosciusko County on two counts of malicious mischief involving bodily fluids. The charge results from an arrest in 2016 after a victim said she had unprotected sex with him four times and her friend had told her Spoor was sick. She said Spoor was taking “a lot of pills,” according to court records. Spoor sent a text message denying he was HIV-positive.
Spoor bonded out and police found more victims. He was later arrested in Marshall, Wabash and Allen counties on similar charges. He bailed out of jail in every county.
He is scheduled for a jury trial in August in Allen County.
On March 14, Spoor was again arrested in Kosciusko County after a woman told police she met Spoor, who was using a false identity, online and had unprotected sex with him. Amid the media reports, another victim came forward.
Spoor was taken to Kosciusko County Jail. After this arrest, Wabash revoked his bond there. While in jail, yet another victim came forward.
Both counties revoking Spoor’s bonds may seem like duplication, but it provides a way to keep someone in jail, said Chief Deputy Prosecutor Katy Hampton.
“What if they (Wabash) change their mind?” she said.
Thirty-two states have “duty to warn” laws requiring infected people to tell sexual partners they have the HIV virus. Indiana passed its duty to warn law in 1993.
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