Court says Haidl’s life needs tracking

Marisa O’Neil

A judge on Thursday placed restrictions on the social life of Greg

Haidl while the teenager awaits a retrial on charges that he and

three other teens gang-raped a girl.

Haidl, 19, son of Orange County Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl, will

have to wear an electronic device and have his location monitored by

a global-positioning system to make sure he sticks to the new terms

of his bail. Those conditions include a curfew, not using drugs or

alcohol and not being alone with girls younger than 18.

The court order, signed Thursday, contained what Orange County

Superior Court Judge Francisco Briseno called a “no mercy provision.�

If Haidl violates any of the conditions, Briseno said, Haidl will go

to jail until the upcoming trial ends.

“It was very clear from the way the court spoke to [Greg] Haidl

that this is his absolute last chance,� Deputy Dist. Atty. Susan

Schroeder said.

The restrictions came after a series of run-ins Haidl has had with

the law since his 2002 arrest on suspicion that he, Kyle Nachreiner

and Keith Spann, both now 19, gang-raped a 16-year-old girl and

videotaped the incident. His other run-ins include charges of

trespassing and of having sex with another 16-year-old girl last

month. Spann and Nachreiner, also out on bail, do not have similar

restrictions on them.

Haidl is free on $100,000 bail after a jury failed to reach a

verdict in the alleged gang rape and another $100,000 for the new

statutory-rape charge.

Prosecutors had asked the judge to revoke Haidl’s bail, saying the

teenager was a threat to young women. Briseno refused but agreed that

Haidl’s actions merited a more structured living environment.

According to court documents, Haidl can’t drink alcohol, consume

or possess controlled substances, break the law, be alone with minor

females, be in a car with a minor and no adult, leave the county or

associate with 17 people listed in the document. Those people, the

judge said, were involved in some of his prior incidents.

Haidl also had to surrender his passport to his attorney, Pete

Scalisi, and must abide by a curfew from 11 p.m. to 8 a.m. at his

father’s Corona del Mar home. He may visit his mother’s San Clemente

home if he gives prior notice.

“Greg won’t have any problem at all living by these rules,�

Scalisi said.

Sentinel Offender Services, a private monitoring company in Santa

Ana, will help keep track of Greg Haidl with a small transmitter

placed around his ankle and a receiver in his father’s home, said

Darryl Martin, a vice president for the company. An alarm goes off in

the company’s monitoring center if someone removes the transmitter or

gets too far away, he said.

When Greg Haidl leaves his home, he will have to carry a special

cellphone that includes a global-positioning system to track his

whereabouts, Martin said. Greg Haidl will also face random drug and

alcohol tests and searches of his home.

His father will have to pay for the monitoring service.

Another of Greg Haidl’s attorneys, Joseph Cavallo, appeared in a

Laguna Niguel court Thursday morning to enter a not guilty plea on

behalf of Haidl in the misdemeanor statutory-rape case. That case is

set to go to trial Aug. 31, Cavallo said. Greg and Don Haidl attended

Briseno’s hearing.

Greg Haidl, Spann and Nachreiner face nine counts in the alleged

2002 rape at Don Haidl’s Corona del Mar home. If convicted in a

retrial, which begins Oct. 10, they could face up to 23 years in

prison.

* MARISA O’NEIL covers public safety and courts. She may be

reached at (949) 574-4268 or by e-mail at [email protected].