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Marine Hering posts bail, military may take custody

By Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Published November 20, 2008 at 10:22 p.m.

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Hering, who served in Iraq, spent 26 months in hiding.

Hering, who served in Iraq, spent 26 months in hiding.

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Bail was posted Thursday for Lance Hering, clearing the way for military authorities to take custody of the Colorado Marine who spent 26 months in hiding after staging his disappearance.

Karen Unger, a Port Angeles attorney, confirmed Thursday evening that Hering's $5,000 bail had been posted.

It was not clear when the Marine Corps might take custody of him to face a federal charge of deserting.

Hering served in Iraq and was on leave, visiting his parents in Boulder in the late summer of 2006, when he vanished. A friend reported him missing Aug. 30 that year, telling authorities that he was injured in a rock-climbing fall. It sparked a huge search-and- rescue operation in Eldorado Canyon State Park, but investigators eventually concluded that Hering staged his own disappearance.

At the time, Hering was due to report back to Camp Pendleton in California for his next deployment.

As a result, Boulder County prosecutors charged him with violating the terms of his probation in a burglary case.

Sunday in Port Angeles, police, acting on information from Boulder sheriff's detectives, arrested Hering at the airport after he had boarded a private plane that was being flown by his father, Lloyd Hering, 60.

The bail was set on the probation violation charge. Lloyd Hering was cited on a local charge of aiding and abetting.

Both father and son told authorities the plan was for Lloyd to fly his son to Virginia to consult with a forensic psychiatrist, then to Texas to meet with his attorney who was working to arrange his surrender to the Marines.

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  • November 21, 2008

    7:35 a.m.

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    wyhammertime writes:

    I wonder if "DOG" will be looking for him soon???

  • November 21, 2008

    8:13 a.m.

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    WhadUsay writes:

    What happened to the "he was on his way to turn himself in" story that was originally floated. Now it's that he was going on an interstate odessy to try to get support for his illegal actions before hiding behind an attorney who would "arrange his surrender". Sorry, criminals don't get to "arrange their surrenders" they are caught and prosecuted. I'm sorry this guy decided to break the law and not follow through with his commitment to the military. That's not our problem. He made his decision and now he must live with it.

  • November 21, 2008

    8:28 a.m.

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    Davek80501 writes:

    Punishment for desertion at minimum should be loss of citizenship, anyone who "knowingly" aids and abets a person in desertion should receive the same. Let Lance his father and anyone else who "knowingly" helped him find another country to live in.

  • November 21, 2008

    8:38 a.m.

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    Cowboy63 writes:

    Must we get a daily blow-by-blow account of this loser's whereabouts? The kids a deserter, he's been busted, he'll be separated, he'll go on to live whatever kind life a weasel winds up with and with any luck we won't have to hear about it.

    You'd think this deserter was Elvis with as much press as he gets!

  • November 21, 2008

    9:08 a.m.

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    JohnLowe writes:

    Low IQ guy, perhaps the several hundred people who participated in the search and rescue operation after Hering's faked climbing accident are interested in "a daily blow-by-blow account" of what this young gentleman is doing.

  • November 21, 2008

    9:09 a.m.

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    elkman writes:

    katiestone
    One last question. The Westword article stated that Mr Hering and Steve Powers went to El Dorado canyon on August 29, 2006, "intent on committing a crime". Yet, you state that the very Marines that wanted to kill him were convicted in June of 2006.
    Therefore, these guys were not even around to hurt him if he went back. Mr Hering knew all this. So, do you get my point? He staged all this knowing full well that the "murderers" were already convicted. What do you have to say about that, katiestone?

  • November 21, 2008

    10:54 a.m.

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    Girl_from_the_Farm writes:

    It makes me kinda angry at how so many people are passing judgement on someone they don't know. You keep making all these judgements about this man without ever having met him, based only on what you've read in the news.

    Well, I've met him.

    He's highly intelligent. At least, on the rare occasion that he spoke, he was always thoughtful and well-spoken. He always won at chess.

    But he also seemed... broken somehow. I've heard since he got caught that his unit kidnapped and murdered a civilian woman.

    Anyway, my point isn't that I have all the facts, or that my opinion about what should happen to him is the right one. It's just that it seems wrong to me to judge someone who you don't really know anything about.

  • November 21, 2008

    4:20 p.m.

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    Davek80501 writes:

    Girl_from_the_Farm,
    Are you denying that he tried to fake his own death and is a deserter from the Marine Corps?

  • November 21, 2008

    6:58 p.m.

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    gardog writes:

    "He's highly intelligent. At least, on the rare occasion that he spoke, he was always thoughtful and well-spoken." - so was Stalin, Hitler, Manson....give me a break.

    The kid is at least emotionally challenged and probably mentally ill. Judging from his father actions, the apple probably didn't fall far from the tree.