ELLSWORTH – A Lamoine couple appeared in Hancock County Superior Court on Thursday morning to be arraigned on charges that they kidnapped and robbed an elderly relative last January.

Steven W. Robbins, 36, and Juanita S. Mullins, 33, pleaded not guilty to charges of robbery, kidnapping, burglary, theft, assault and obstructing the report of a crime or injury.

The husband and wife were arrested separately in October after an investigation by the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department and the District Attorney’s Office. Police said the couple attacked Robbins’ 74-year-old grandmother at her Buttermilk Road home in Lamoine on Jan. 22.

They were indicted by a grand jury earlier this month.

Robbins and Mullins are accused of handcuffing the woman in bed, binding her legs and putting a pillowcase over her head before stealing a safe from the floor of her bedroom closet. The safe contained about $60,000 cash.

Both have been free on surety bail since October.

Superior Court Judge Andrew J. Mead reduced the conditions of their bail by allowing Robbins to leave Maine for his out-of-state job and by striking the curfew that was imposed on Mullins after she was released from jail.

No further court dates have been set. According to prosecutors, 700 pages of discovery evidence must be reviewed before a trial can be scheduled.