Bench trial date set for local man

A Cape Girardeau man charged with failing to register as a convicted sex offender appeared Monday in associate circuit court in Jackson via a Web cam broadcast from the county jail.

Timothy T. Glas, 35, was charged March 25 with failing to register.

He appeared Monday for a criminal setting. Through his public defense attorney, Jennifer Booth, Glas waived his right to a preliminary hearing.

A bench trial was scheduled for April 30 at 4 p.m.

Glas was named as the suspect in a reported March 12 abduction attempt of a Cape Girardeau middle school girl in court documents filed by Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle.

No additional charge has been filed but an investigation continues, Swingle said.

Glas remains in custody in lieu of a $2,500 cash-only bond. He was convicted in 1985 in Des Moines, Iowa, of exposing himself to a middle school girl, who he tried to get into his car, Swingle said.