AUSTIN, Minn. – A Utica man who had been free on his own recognizance in a Grand Meadow sexual assault case was ordered back behind bars allegedly for a probation violation. Bail this time was set at $200,000 for Jose Hector Contreras-Paredes, age 30. He had been released temporarily on condition he stay away from the woman. The new charges say he approached the woman within 500 feet at her job and either had used or possessed a dangerous weapon. In the new hearing Judge Christopher Neisen, on loan from Wabasha County, revoked Contreras-Paredes’ release. Court documents based mostly on the woman’s account listed this series of events:
> August 29: Contreras-Paredes, who was known to the woman, drove to her place about 1 a.m.
> She told him that she was going to bed and goodbye.
> He pushed through the door anyway and began kissing her.
> She resisted, but he continued to press himself on her, groping herm and physically injuring her.
> August 30: Contreras-Paredes told a Mower County that he was drunk and didn’t remember doing some of the things the victim claimed.
> October 23: The Mower County prosecutor sought an arrest warrant.
> December 3: According to to a probation officer, an augmented criminal charge was in order.