BAKER, C.J.
On August 4, 2009, Upshaw filed a motion for a speedy trial pursuant to Criminal Rule 4(B). The trial court granted the motion on August 11, found that the deadline was October 13, 2009, and set a trial for October 8, 2009.
On October 6, 2009, the State filed a motion to continue the trial because of the unavailability of key witnesses. The trial court denied the State’s motion on October 7, and on October 8, released Upshaw on his own recognizance. The trial court reset Upshaw’s trial for March 1, 2010.
Less than three weeks later, on October 27, the State moved to revoke Upshaw’s bond in this case following his arrest in another, unrelated matter for class A misdemeanor battery of a police officer. The trial court granted the motion the same day.
On November 11, 2009, Upshaw renewed his motion for a fast and speedy trial. The trial court granted the motion, found that the new speedy trial deadline was January 11, 2010, and set the trial for December 28, 2009.
On December 1, 2009, Upshaw moved to dismiss, arguing that the Rule 4(B) fast and speedy deadline had passed. The trial court denied Upshaw’s motion, finding that his “release status was revoked due to obtaining new and additional criminal charges.”
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Here, Upshaw’s seventy-day time period was triggered when he filed his motion for a speedy trial on August 4, 2009, pursuant to which the trial court set his trial for October 8, 2009. When the State realized that its key witnesses were unavailable at that time, however, the trial court vacated the trial date and released Upshaw on his own recognizance. This court has explained that “the purpose of Rule 4(B) is to prevent a defendant from being detained in jail for more than 70 days after requesting an early trial . . . .” Bartley, 800 N.E.2d at 196 (emphasis in original). Because Upshaw was released from jail before the seventy-day period had expired, the objective of the Rule was satisfied. See Id. (holding that objective of Rule 4(B) was satisfied where defendant was released on his own recognizance before the seventy-day period had expired).
Three weeks after Upshaw was released on his own recognizance, however, he was arrested on new, unrelated charges. Upshaw seems to argue that the new, unrelated incarceration should tack onto his initial incarceration for the instant offenses for the purpose of the Rule 4(B) deadline. We cannot agree. For the Rule 4(B) deadline to apply, incarceration on the present offense must be the reason that the defendant is in jail. There is no logical reason to find that the Rule 4(B) clock on the instant charges resumed ticking merely because Upshaw was arrested on new, separate charges—that would not serve the Rule’s objectives. Cf. Bowers v. State, 717 N.E.2d 242, 245 (Ind. Ct. App. 1999) (finding that Rule 4(B) clock resumed when defendant, who had been discharged on his own recognizance, was later recharged and re-incarcerated on the same initial charges). Because Upshaw was tried within seventy days after he was arrested on the new charges and asserted his Rule 4(B) right to a fast and speedy trial, the trial court did not err by denying his motion to dismiss the pending charges.
NAJAM, J., and MATHIAS, J., concur.