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Indicted restaurant owner gets new trial date, release from home detention

By Mark Fisher | Monday, November 28, 2011, 06:59 AM

DAYTON — The trial of Eva Christian — owner of the Boulevard Haus restaurant in Dayton’s Oregon Historic District who was indicted earlier this year on charges relating to alleged insurance fraud — has been postponed until February 2012, and a judge has released her from electronic home detention, according to Montgomery County Common Pleas Court records.

Christian’s trial has been rescheduled to Feb. 27, a spokeswoman for Montgomery County Common Please Judge Barbara Gorman said this morning. Her trial had been scheduled to begin today. Christian is now free on her own recognizance after posting a $10,000 surety bond and has been ordered to not leave Montgomery County before the trial.

The restaurant owner had been under electronic home detention since shortly after she was indicted in March on two counts of insurance fraud and two counts of making false alarms. Prosecutors added a fifth charge of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity in June.

Prosecutors say the insurance fraud-related charges are based on two incidents, when Christian reported a burglary at her Washington Twp. home in the early hours of Oct. 11, 2009, and when she reported a burglary and vandalism at Cena restaurant after the Miami Twp. eatery closed on Christmas Eve 2009. A fire also was reported at the restaurant on the same evening. The restaurant never re-opened.

Christian has pleaded not guilty and has denied any wrongdoing. Her attorneys, John Smith and Mark Webb of Springboro, noted in their request for Christian’s release from electronic home detention that she “is a local business owner with a very demanding holiday season.”

Prior to its current incarnation as Boulevard Haus, the restaurant filed for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy in April 2009 when it was operating as Cafe Boulevard. The filing allowed Cafe Boulevard to reorganize its debts. Christian changed the restaurant’s name in November 2009 when it started serving German cuisine, and Boulevard Haus emerged from bankruptcy entirely in December 2010, according to U.S. Bankruptcy Court records.

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