Federal Magistrate Edward C. King yesterday released Edwin Toilolo on a $25,000 signature bond, providing he participate in a drug treatment program and drug testing at his own expense.

King also ordered that Toilolo seek employment or education, but that he couldn't be employed in law enforcement or corrections.

A Sept. 3 preliminary hearing was set.

A father of four, Toilolo has worked as an adult correction officer for nine years at Halawa Correctional Facility.

He was charged Friday on a criminal complaint alleging that he accepted $300 from an undercover narcotics officer to smuggle two one-eighth ounce packets of crystal methamphetamine into the prison.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Seabright said Toilolo and his wife had a "nice joint income," but that the defendant likely engaged in smuggling to support his drug problem.

Seabright also said Toilolo told the undercover investigator that he used and liked "ice," but later lied to a federal official about his drug use, saying he didn't have a problem.

"My concern is that if he doesn't admit he has a problem, treatment won't do any good and he'll have to go back to selling drugs," he said.

He said most of about eight guards in the last several years who smuggled drugs into prisons returned to using drugs because they failed to admit they had a problem.

But Donna Gray, a federal public defender whom King provisionally appointed, said Toilolo would enter an outpatient treatment program.

She said he wasn't a flight risk, but also said they may need up to two weeks to find a drug program. She also said the Toilolos had high expenses, including car payments, insurance, utilities and credit card debt.

In Toilolo's financial affidavit, he said he earned $26,400 a year and that his wife earned $24,000 as a private school teacher.

He also said he received $155 within the last year from the Army National Guard.

Toilolo has four children, ages 2, 7, 10 and 11, and pays $2,300 a month for a home valued at $300,000.