Kevin Winson, the mayor of Maddock, N.D., appeared in state district court Monday in Devils Lake on charges of criminal theft, a felony, and trespassing, a misdemeanor, said Benson County State's Attorney James Wang.
Winson asked for a public defender to be appointed to represent him.
He bonded out Monday from the Lake Region jail in Devils Lake, which serves several counties, including Benson, according to a sergeant at the jail.
Wang said he also expects to charge Winson with ingesting an illegal drug, a misdemeanor.
When Winson was arrested and jailed last week on the theft and trespassing charges, his routine urine test showed evidence of methamphetamine, Wang said.
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Winson's theft and trespassing charges involved his alleged taking of copper wire and tubing and other property from vacant homes, Wang said.
Maddock is a city of about 480 in Benson County. Winson works for a bowling alley in Carrington, N.D.
