A judge in state district court on Friday found that a woman arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting and a standoff at a Sulphur motel should not be held as a principal to the crime, but as an accessory after the fact.

Thus, Judge Robert Wyatt significantly lowered the bond of Amber Nicole Trahan, 22, as well as Katie Marie Mancil, 25.

El Jerico Bartie, 26, Mancil’s husband, is being held on charges of attempted first-degree murder, attempted manslaughter and attempted second-degree murder in relation to two drive-by shootings in the 2200 block of Cline Street and a standoff with Sulphur and Lake Charles police at the Super 8 in July.

Trahan was charged with attempted second-degree murder, assault by drive-by shooting and illegal use of weapons. She was being held on $1.1 million bond.

Mancil, arrested as an accessory after the fact to attempted second-degree murder, was being held on $250,000 bond.

Prosecutor David Kimball agreed that the women should be charged as accessories after the fact. He said that because the current charges came from a warrant and not an indictment, the District Attorney’s Office cannot modify the charges.

Although Trahan is believed to have been in the vehicle when the drive-by happened, she “was not an active participant,” Kimball told Wyatt. Both “assisted after the fact knowing what (Bartie) had done,” he said.

Wyatt set Trahan’s bond at $50,000 ­— $25,000 each on two counts of accessory to a drive-by — and Mancil’s at $25,000 on one count of accessory.

A drive-by shooting involving a blue Dodge Neon was reported on Cline Street at 1:34 a.m., said Lake Charles police Sgt. Franklin Fondel. No one was injured. But a second drive-by at the same address at 3 p.m. that day resulted in one person being shot, Fondel said.

The injured person identified Bartie as the shooter and picked Trahan out of a photo lineup as the likely passenger in the vehicle, Fondel said.

Bartie is alleged to have pulled up to the residence, where people were outside, and called the victim over, telling him he didn’t have any “beef” with him, Fondel said. When the man walked to the car, Bartie pulled out two guns and began firing, striking the man in the arm and the leg, Fondel said. Using a license plate number gathered by witnesses, authorities tied the vehicle to Bartie.

At Bartie’s Giovanni Street apartment, police saw Mancil walking out and found Trahan inside sleeping when they served a search warrant, Fondel said. Trahan admitted being in the car for both shootings, he said.

Mancil was told to call police if she communicated with Bartie, Fondel said. Mancil called and texted others in an effort to raise funds to get Bartie out of town. In addition, she was seen coming and going from the hotel room in which Bartie was found, Fondel said.

Bartie had been picked up from Giovanni Street by someone in a Chrysler 300. Using phone records, police tracked him to the Super 8 the day after the drive-by, Fondel said.

Bartie is alleged to have shot Mancil in the leg and fired at officers through the door of the motel room before surrendering after 20-30 minutes.