Jia M. Tian, the 58-year-old woman accused of vandalizing the National Cathedral and implicated in a similar green paint attack at the Lincoln Memorial, was released today by a judge to a halfway house.

At a preliminary hearing held at the D.C. Superior Court, prosecutors called two law enforcement officials to the stand who each testified to seeing Tian in the Cathedral with paint on her body.

Metropolitan Police Department Detective Wai Tat Chung testified that he saw Tian standing in the Cathedral’s Children’s Chapel, one of two chapels vandalized. Chung said Tian, who he described as “calm” at the scene, would not tell him where she lived.

Chung testified that he was told by another detective that a footprint left by green paint at the Lincoln Memorial matched the tread of a shoe Tian was wearing when she was arrested. The detective, who did not know what kind of shoe Tian was wearing, said there was green paint on a section of the left shoe.

To this point, no connection between the green paint vandalism at the National Cathedral and Lincoln Memorial had been released. MPD Chief Cathy Lanier previously said the incidents “appeared” to be linked.

Officer Christopher Carkeek also testified, saying he was called to the National Cathedral on the report of destruction of property. Carkeek said he observed Tian in the Children’s Chapel with green paint on her arm, shirt, shorts and “sneakers.”

He said the officer who found Tian in the Chapel observed her walking away from him and placing a soda can full of green paint in a bag. Carkeek said he saw green paint in various spots in a women’s bathroom. He also found a can of green paint in the bathroom trashcan with a multi-colored sock on top. Tian, Carkeek said, was wearing a multi-colored sock on one of her arms.

Carkeek said a security officer at the Cathedral told him the paint had done an estimated $18,000 worth of damage. The defense questioned this estimate.

Carkeek said he was also called to Luther Place Memorial Church on a call of destruction of property. He observed that an organ had been damaged by white paint, as well as human feces and urine. A witness told him that an “elderly Asian female” had been in the church during the time when it was vandalized. Later, the witness recognized the suspect as Tian from a news report.

The defense called the government’s evidence circumstantial and repeatedly pointed out that no witnesses saw Tian actually vandalize any property.

Tian, dressed in a blue prison uniform, was brought into the courtroom in shackles by two U.S. Marshals. She appeared to cry during one point and was handed tissues.

While the government called for Tian to be held without bond, Judge Frederick Sullivan declined to do so, saying that course of action was extremely harsh. He ordered Tian to be transferred to a halfway house, under the condition she wear an ankle bracelet and have no social visits.