DENVER -- A judge said enough evidence exists to move forward with charges for a man accused of binding the hands of a teenage girl and attempting to do the same to her sister during a Southwest Airlines flight from San Diego to Denver.
An attorney for 29-year-old Ezra Wallace called the Aug. 1 incident distressing but said it was "horseplay," pointing to the lack of screaming from the girls. Wallace faces two counts of assault.
Wallace is free on $5,000 bail. On Friday U.S. Magistrate Judge Kristen Mix set several conditions, including ordering Wallace to refrain from alcohol and submit to breathalyzer and urinalysis.
In a written statement, Wallace said he had been drinking and "never harmed anybody or had any bad intentions."
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