A Kingston man was ordered held on $50,000 bail after he refused to take a urinalysis test following sanctions in Jefferson County Drug Court that sent him back to jail last week.

Logan Otto Hansen was given two days in Jefferson County Jail — half of the recommended time of four days — by Superior Court Judge Keith Harper last Thursday for violating conditions of his participation in Drug Court. Drug Court is an alternative to incarceration where defendants agree to undergo supervised treatment, rehabilitation, and mandatory drug testing over a span of 12 months or more.

When Hansen was booked into jail Sept. 8, however, authorities said he refused to take a drug test.

That decision led to an appearance in Jefferson County Superior Court Friday.

Hansen appeared via video from the county jail, but the hearing was cut short because his attorney, Scott Charlton, said he was advised of Hansen’s violations late Thursday and he hadn’t since had a chance to talk to his client.

County Prosecutor James Kennedy asked Harper to set bail at $50,000, and told Hansen the Drug Court team would address the matter in the coming week.

When Hansen interrupted from the video monitor and claimed he had not refused to take a drug test, the judge reminded him of Hansen’s recent appearance in court.

“I asked if your [urinalysis] was going to be clean and you said it would be,” Harper said, adding that Hansen told him it would be “no problem.”

When Harper reminded Hansen that he refused to take a drug test the day before, Hansen disagreed.

Harper wasn’t having it.

“As far as I’m concerned, it sounds like you refused,” he said.

Hansen was originally charged in May 2021 with first-degree identity theft and four counts of forgery.

Hansen’s felony case was remanded to drug court in early March.

The five felony charges date back to summer 2020, when law enforcement was contacted by the operations manager of Good Man Sanitation who had reviewed the company’s banking statement and noticed payroll checks that were out of sequence.

The four forged payroll checks totaled $6,213.54. The company’s operations manager noted she did not issue the checks, and also saw the checks were hand signed, but not with her signature or by the owner of the company, who co-signs payroll checks.

The manager told police that Hansen had been terminated in March after he didn’t come back to work once the business reopened after a COVID-19 shutdown.

Hansen had been contacted three times to come back to work, according to court documents, but never responded to his employer’s requests.

Hansen also had keys to the office where the payroll checks were kept, and the manager had learned the checks were written to Hansen in June and July 2020 for $1,000; $1,315.59; $1,575.45; and $2,322.50.

A deputy contacted the Kitsap Bank branch in Port Hadlock to get video surveillance of the check transactions, and were contacted by a bank manager  who said Hansen had been in the bank on Aug. 19, 2020 and tried to deposit an additional paycheck from Good Man Sanitation.

The check was not accepted, however, because the account had been closed by the company after the forged checks were discovered.

Later on the same day as the attempted deposit by Hanson, a person called the sheriff’s office after finding a crumpled up payroll check by the side of the road that had Hansen’s name on it.

Attempts to find Hansen hit a dead end in March 2021, after an ex-girlfriend of Hansen’s said she didn’t know where he was, but he was couch surfing with friends in Kitsap and Jefferson counties.