Brian K. Charles is back in court, and he’s not happy about it. Neither is his mother, Avis.

“I just want it to stop,” said Avis Charles, who insists her 20-year-old son is innocent of a series of burglaries in spring 2002 in a southwest Lawrence neighborhood.

The state initially charged Charles in May 2002 with 10 counts, including aggravated burglary, aggravated assault, theft and possession of marijuana. Police said they arrested Charles after seeing him looking in windows and trying to open a door at a theft-plagued townhome complex in the 3500 block of West 22nd Street.

Authorities also alleged Charles was the same man who, a few weeks earlier, had climbed into a woman’s bed armed with a knife at her residence in the 3700 block of West 24th Street.

Five months after Charles’ arrest, all charges were dismissed at the state’s cost, but prosecutors reserved the right to file the charges again.

On Monday, Dist. Atty. Christine Kenney’s office filed a new complaint against Charles alleging three counts of aggravated burglary, three counts of theft, aggravated assault, attempted aggravated burglary and possession of marijuana.

All of the victims in the prior case are listed as victims in the new case.

During a court appearance by videoconference Tuesday from the Douglas County Jail, Charles begged District Court Judge Robert Fairchild to lower his bond from $10,000.

“I have a good job, and I don’t want to lose my job,” Charles said.

Fairchild said the charges were “extremely serious” but agreed to drop the bond to $5,000. Charles bonded out of jail at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, jail officers said.

Avis Charles insists her son is innocent and said she earned enough money so that her son wouldn’t have to steal. She said DNA tests in the previous case failed to prove that her son was the man who climbed into the woman’s bed, and she claimed authorities were throwing “everything but the kitchen sink” at her son to account for unsolved burglaries.

Kenney said she could not comment on the evidence in the case.