MARION COUNTY — Bail has been set at $200,000 for a 24-year-old Odin man charged Wednesday in Marion County Court with beating a Centralia woman at her home before taking a vehicle belonging to her aunt.

Daniel Johnston was charged in court with two Class 2 felonies for aggravated domestic battery involving strangling and theft of between $10,000 and $100,000, along with interference with a report of domestic violence.

Johnston was arrested Tuesday when Centralia police stopped him while he was driving the vehicle reportedly stolen from the woman’s home. She was taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries suffered over two successive days of being beaten.

If Johnston posts bond and is released, he’s ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim or her residence and was also ordered to abstain from drugs and alcohol. He’s next scheduled to appear in court on April 6 for a preliminary hearing and a first appearance with his court-appointed attorney.