Bond Set At $50,000 For Kruger

18-year-old Melissa Kruger is led into the Kingsbury County Courthouse Monday

Bond has been set at 50-thousand dollars cash for the DeSmet High School student charged with making terroristic threats and simple assault. 18-year-old Melissa Kruger also requested a court appointed attorney. Judge David Gienapp told Kruger, Carmen Means of Huron will represent her in future court proceedings. Kingsbury County States Attorney Gregg Gass asked Gienapp to hold Kruger with no bond because by way her own words in threatening Facebook posts she made against students and teachers she may have some mental instabilities. If Kruger is bonded out she would be under house arrest at her mother’s home, have no access to the internet and no contact with the DeSmet School. Gass also recited for Geinapp a number of postings Kruger made from two Facebook pages she maintained, one of those under a fictitious name. Kruger was then returned to Huron where she’s being held in the Beadle County Jail pending a possible future bail hearing on February 7th