Judge raises bond for accused sex offender
A district court judge has revoked an earlier bond and set a new one for a Jacksonville man who is accused of committing a sexual assault while out on bail from a previous sexual assault charge.
Leonel Humberto Saballos, 35, of Broken Oak Court, is in the Onslow County Jail under a $700,000 secured bond. He would have to present the full amount of his bond to the court to be free prior to his court date, which has not been set. He was ordered by the court to surrender his passports or other documents he could use to leave the country, said Dewey Hudson, district attorney for the 4th Prosecutorial District.
Saballos was arrested by the Onslow County Sheriff’s Department on Sept. 2 and charged with breaking into a home and sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl. He had been charged in June with 14 other sex charges and was released July 9 on a reduced bond, law enforcement officials said.