BANGOR (AP) – A convicted murderer from Vermont who allegedly stole a pickup truck from a halfway house appeared Monday in District Court on a charge of felony theft.

Kent Hanson, 63, entered no plea and was ordered held in the Penobscot County Jail in lieu of bail set at $200,000 in property or $100,000 cash.

The judge scheduled a probable cause hearing for June 29, but the case could go before the grand jury before then.

Hanson, who had been staying at the 2nd Chance Ranch in Charleston following his completion of a 20-year prison sentence in Vermont, had been the object of a search after he went missing Wednesday and the ranch owner’s pickup truck was reported stolen.

The truck was spotted Friday outside Lucky’s Tavern in Newport, where witnesses provided information that led police to a home in nearby Detroit where Hanson was found.

A woman who lived at the home and had met Hanson at the bar had bruises on her face, but Chief Deputy Troy Morton of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department said Monday an investigation indicated that the woman was not an assault victim.

Hanson, who was characterized by police as a “ticking time bomb,” was released from a Vermont prison earlier this month.

He was charged with killing his wife in 1964 in Vermont. He pleaded innocent by reason of insanity and spent several years in a state hospital. He most recently completed a 20-year prison sentence for killing another woman in 1985.

Vermont Public Safety officials have pushed for a civil commitment law that would allow the state to hold certain individuals who are considered extremely dangerous after they have completed their prison sentences. Hanson was held up as the example of why such a law was needed.