A Limestone woman charged with shooting her husband nearly two weeks ago was granted bail Monday in Bangor after a federal judge determined that she was neither likely to flee nor to injure herself or others.

But as of early evening, Dawn Renee Dupuis, 23, had been unable to raise the $5,000 secured bond and remained incarcerated at Penobscot County Jail.

FBI agents arrested her Dec. 23 at Loring Air Force Base, contending that she had shot Staff Sgt. Gary Dupuis in the back with a .22-caliber rifle on Dec. 18 as he slept at their home there. She faces up to 20 years in prison and a possible $250,000 fine if she is convicted of the federal charge of assault with intent to commit murder.

The same day he was shot, Loring officials issued a statement that a staff sergeant, later identified as Gary Dupuis, had been accidentally shot by a child.

During Monday’s detention hearing before U.S. District Judge Morton Brody, Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Wing played a recording of a message Dupuis purportedly left on the answering machine at her husband’s grandmother’s home in Fitchburg, Mass., on Christmas night.

Wing characterized the recording as a threat. Dupuis denied that the voice was hers.

She acknowledged in court that she made two telephone calls to the residence — where her children have been staying — from Penobscot County Jail, but said inmates are allowed to make only collect calls.

The investigator, U.S. Air Force Special Agent Thomas Blackston, testified under questioning by Wing that he believed inmates occasionally were allowed to make direct calls. Blackston said he had obtained the recording from Gary Dupuis’ brother.

The voice in the recording says, “Hi, darling. I just wanted to call and tell you how wonderful (inaudible) was. If I find out you’re married, I’ll get my brother after you.”

Dupuis’ attorney, Mark Perry, pointed out that collect calls cannot be completed if a machine answers the telephone.

Dupuis, who said she was in maximum security on suicide watch for the first three days of her incarceration, said her first call to her husband’s grandmother’s home was answered by his brother, who rejected the call. The second one was answered by his sister, who accepted the call, she said.

She testified that she later was reprimanded by jail officials for making “unauthorized” calls to that home.

After the shooting, she told the court, she accompanied her husband to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Maryland and they were getting along “fine.” Gary Dupuis reportedly since has been transferred to a veterans hospital in Massachusetts.

Two friends and a relative of Dupuis testified that she had numerous relatives in an area of Massachusetts where she had lived for a time during her youth. All three also said they had never known Dupuis to be violent.

The cousin said he and his wife would be willing to let her stay with them at their home in Topsfield, although he said a long stay at their subsidized housing unit could be a problem.

Arguing against bail, Wing pointed to the seriousness of the offense, the “temporary, unstructured living arrangement” her attorney proposed, and Dupuis’ admission to the crime in an affidavit.

The tape recording, despite Dupuis’ denial, “does speak for itself,” said Wing.

Perry said the government had failed to show the existence of several criteria required to deny bail.

Brody agreed, calling the evidence “inconclusive” that the voice on the recording belonged to Dawn Dupuis, saying he had found no significant risk that she would flee and was not persuaded that she posed a danger to the community.

The judge placed several conditions on Dupuis’ bail, ordering her to stay with her cousins in Topsfield, have no contact with her husband or potential witnesses in the case, seek employment, report to probation officials at least twice weekly, and refrain from using alcohol and narcotics and from possessing firearms or other weapons.