CONWAY — The man indicted on charges he drove into the Conway Public Library and caused the death of his passenger was ordered held in jail pending trial by Judge Amy Ignatius on Tuesday.
The Carroll County Superior Court judge also heard testimony from a Conway police detective who offered new details about what happened the fateful night of the accident.
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