Drunk anchor indicted! Ran over, killed Casey- U play, U pay

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Thursday, April 26, 2007, a grand jury in North Carolina indicted news anchor Tolly Carr on all charges in the drunk driving accident in which Casey Bokhoven was killed on March 11, 2007.

Tolly Carr is charged with felony death by vehicle and felony serious injury by vehicle, along with driving while intoxicated.

The first charge is a Class E offense with a maximum sentence of 47 months. The second charge is a Class F offense with a maximum sentence of 25 months.

Carr is now scheduled for an administrative hearing in June. He is being held under a $100,000 bond and is currently in the Forsyth County jail in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He does not plan to post bond and says he will remain in the jail.

Casey Bokhoven, age 26, was violently struck and killed by a pickup truck as he stood on a sidewalk waiting for his girlfriend. The truck, driven by WXII (Winston-Salem, NC) morning anchor Tolly Carr,vaulted over a small wall and hit Casey at 30 mph, dragging him 22 feet, hitting a building and coming to rest with Casey under the wheel. The incident occurred Sunday, March 11, 2007 around 3:40 AM. Charged with DWI, Carr admitted he had been drinking and warrants detail that he refused a Breathalizer test. Blood was taken from Carr, and the results of blood-alcohol tests have not yet been released to the public as of this date (April 20, 2007).

From the WGHP 10 pm broadcast, Thursday, April 26, 2007

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