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Hsu will enter Mesa County Jail tonight
Fugitive Yung Yuen “Norman” Hsu will be transferred to the Mesa County Jail sometime tonight, Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger confirmed this afternoon.
Hautzinger said he was told today to be prepared to handle Hsu’s bond-setting hearing Thursday.
Hautzinger said he plans to ask for at least $4 million bond for the wealthy businessman. One day before Hsu was arrested in Grand Junction, he skipped a bond hearing in a San Mateo, Calif., courtroom.
“Given that he failed to appear on a $2 million bond, I have to ask the judge to double that at least,” Hautzinger said.
The FBI arrested Hsu on Sept. 6 after he fell ill on an eastbound train passing through Grand Junction.
Once Hsu returns to California, he will face sentencing for a 16-year-old grand theft charge he pleaded “no contest” to in 1992.
Hsu returned to California Aug. 31 to face the grand theft charge but became a fugitive for the second time when he failed to attend the Sept. 5 bond hearing.
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