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Municipal judge finds SCRAM violation, sets $1,000 bail and adds hit-and-run count in Garcia Juarez case
Summary
A Lake Forest Park judge found documentary evidence of Secured Court Solutions SCRAM readings indicating alcohol use and set $1,000 bail for Gilman Garcia Juarez; the city added a hit-and-run (attended) charge and the court scheduled an evidentiary hearing and continued trial to the December term.
A Lake Forest Park Municipal Court judge found sufficient documentary evidence of a SCRAM (alcohol monitoring) violation and ordered defendant Gilman Garcia Juarez to post $1,000 bail by noon the following day or surrender to Lynnwood Jail.
The court put on the record a Secured Court Solutions report showing alcohol use on Oct. 24, 2025. Defense counsel Matthew Myers said his client "accidentally used a lotion that, has some amount of alcohol content in it and that it caused incidental exposure" and offered to obtain a contemporaneous AA meeting UA test for the court to review. Prosecutor Loyce McDonald and the judge said the peak readings (approaching 0.4) were inconsistent with a topical contaminant and suggested consumption.
Judge: "I would order that bail be posted by noon tomorrow," the judge said when announcing the bail amount and the alternative that the defendant surrender to custody.
After announcing the SCRAM finding, the city moved to add a second charge — hit and run (attended) — allegedly occurring on March 20, 2025. Garcia Juarez pleaded not guilty to the newly added count. The court set the case for trial on the next available Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. and provided an option for the parties to request an evidentiary hearing on the SCRAM matter before the trial if they wished. The judge placed an evidentiary hearing on the calendar for the coming Wednesday at 9 a.m. if the defendant remained out of custody; if in custody the court said it would try to move the hearing earlier in the week.
The prosecutor flagged discovery and witness disclosure problems: the defense had supplied inconsistent or incomplete contact information for an alibi/witness described as the defendant's brother, "Marvin Antonio Garcia Juarez." Prosecutors said they had only a phone number that initially did not connect and incomplete identifying details. The judge ordered Myers to assist in arranging an interview and to report back to the court Monday morning; readiness was continued to the December term with readiness on Dec. 3 at 2 p.m. and trial on Dec. 9 at 9 a.m.
Defense counsel noted this was the client's first alleged violation after about eight months of compliance and asked the court to consider a modest bail amount; the court set $1,000 in light of the underlying facts in the affidavit of probable cause, which included an earlier collision and an open container.
What's next: Garcia Juarez must post bail by noon the next day or surrender to custody. The parties may seek an evidentiary hearing on the SCRAM report before trial; the court scheduled follow-up appearances (readiness Dec. 3; trial Dec. 9).
