Caiden Clem Faces New Charges, Bond Increased

0:00It's April 28th. Welcome to Kansas News today, powered by AI. In 18-year-old named Kaiden Klem, locked up in Douglas County jail, just got hit with a new charge for trafficking contraband while waiting for. His trial on that deadly bar shooting in Lawrence back in January. The original first-degree murder charge against him got dropped in February, but he's still facing four counts of aggravated assault and 1-4. No possession of a weapon by a felon after the hawkshooting that killed one person and left another critically hurt. He's being held on a $1 million bond for those assault charges. And now they've tacked on another $500,000 for the contraband bust. This latest incident went down on April 3rd with some unidentified illegal controlled substance and the charge came down on April 22nd. Klem's got his first court appearance for the trafficking on May 6th at 9 a.m. with the big shooting hearing set for June 11th looks like. His legal troubles are stacking up fast.