FREEHOLD -- A Superior Court judge refused Thursday to reconsider whether a teen charged in the disappearance and death of Sarah Stern should get a new detention hearing.

Preston Taylor, 19, will remain incarcerated until his trial because his attorney did not raise new issues to warrant reconsidering whether he should be released, Judge David Bauman said.

Taylor, 19, of Neptune City, is charged with conspiracy, hindering apprehension and disposal of human remains. He is accused of helping his friend and housemate, Liam McAtasney, dump Stern's body off the Route 35 bridge in Belmar into the Shark River on Dec. 3, eight hours after McAtasney allegedly strangled her.

Taylor's attorney, John Perrone, vowed to take the case to the Appellate Division to get Taylor released pending trial.

Insisting his client would not obstruct the case against him, Perrone asked Bauman to reopen Taylor's detention hearing.

Under the state's bail rules that went into effect Jan. 1, Perrone would have had to show one of three things to reopen the hearing - that setting a monetary bail would assure Taylor's appearance for future court dates, that his release would not pose a danger to the community or anyone else, or that he would not obstruct or try to obstruct the case.

Last week, Bauman refused to release Taylor based on the obstruction issue.

Perrone said that if his client is released on bail, Taylor's father, Jeremiah Taylor, was prepared to sleep in the same room as his son, take away his cell phone, cancel the family's internet service and take away his son's driver's license to ensure that there would be no further obstruction.

"He's basically going to be the custodian of him," Perrone said.

But Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Meghan Doyle said that was the same level of oversight Perrone had pledged at the Feb. 7 detention hearing that Taylor would receive.

She said that was not enough for Bauman to reopen the hearing.

Prosecutors have said Taylor first obstructed the case by denying knowing anything about Stern's disappearance when he spoke with investigators on Dec. 7 and by participating with McAtasney in a Dec. 10 search for her to divert suspicion from them.

Perrone argued Taylor demonstrated that he wasn't obstructing when he told investigators on Feb. 1 about his involvement.

But Doyle said Taylor's cooperation has no bearing on whether he should be released.

"He cooperated because he got caught," she said.

Appearing in a yellow jump suit and with his hands shackled to his waist, Taylor wiped a tear from his eye as the hearing got under way. Sitting in the audience, his parents stared off after Bauman issued his decision.

Perrone said he has seven days to file an appeal.

Bauman said Thursday that one of the two safes found buried at Sandy Hook and at Shark River Park in Wall Township contained Stern's money.

McAtasney is accused of strangling Stern, 19, in her Neptune City home on Dec. 2 before robbing her of thousands of dollars. Prosecutors said he then recruited Taylor to hide the body before the pair, who were childhood friends of Stern, both returned to retrieve her and take her to the bridge.

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