MARION COUNTY — Bail was set at $50,000 Tuesday in Marion County Court, for a 42-year-old Centralia man charged in a string of burglaries in the county.

Rodney Timmons was formally charged Tuesday with four Class 1 felony counts of residential burglary, after Marion County Sheriff’s deputies arrested him in connection with a string of burglaries in Centralia and Kell over an 8-day period.

Timmons remains in the Marion County Jail in lieu of $5,000 cash bond. He is next scheduled in court August 16 for a preliminary hearing.