Bond set at $50,000 for Travis Bonham

KNOX COUNTY — Bond was set at $50,000 for Travis Bonham during an arraignment in Knox County Wednesday morning.

The announcement was made on the Facebook page for Knox County Prosecutor Chip McConville shortly after the scheduled 10 a.m. hearing.

Bonham appeared via video conference for an arraignment on one count of grand theft, a fourth-degree felony. He was indicted Monday on that charge. Bonham is considered a suspect in the homicide of his mother, 50-year-old Sandra Stelk, and girlfriend, 23-year-old Jaime Barber.

The bodies of Stelk and Barber were discovered in Stelk's Coshocton Road home outside Mount Vernon last week. Both women had been shot multiple times.

Police across central Ohio searched for Bonham for five days before he was arrested without incident Sunday afternoon on U.S. 62 in Licking County.

No charges have been filed in relation to the homicides, and the Knox County Sheriff's Office's investigation is ongoing.

In a post Wednesday morning on the Facebook page, McConville wrote that while bond was only being set for Bonham on the grand theft charge, he would be held in jail on a holder warrant from the Adult Parole Authority if he were to post the bond amount.

"Bonham will not be getting out of jail any time this week," McConville wrote. The post was made "because of the amount of public concern" surrounding the case, he wrote.

The $50,000 bond does not carry a 10 percent option, meaning Bonham would have to post the entire amount in either cash or surety.