By Rod Rose
Assistant Managing Editor
Lebanon — Charges that he had been using marijuana before he drove a car into a home, killing a woman, have been filed against Joshua McCraw, 22, Lebanon.
McCraw has been in the Boone County Jail since the May 10 crash that killed Nikki LaBolle, 21, and left him and two other persons injured.
An initial hearing on four new charges was to have been at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Boone Superior Court II. McCraw’s attorney, Deborah Smith, waived that hearing minutes before it was to have begun.
McCraw was in the Boone County Courthouse rotunda, clad in an orange jail jumpsuit and in leg and arm restraints, when he learned the hearing had been canceled.
All the new charges are based on allegations that lab tests show McCraw tested positive for marijuana; they include a class B felony count of causing death while operating a motor vehicle with a controlled substance in the blood, two class D felony counts of causing serious bodily injury while driving with a controlled substance in the blood, and a misdemeanor charge of driving with a controlled substance.
See Wednesday’s Lebanon Reporter for more on this story.
