By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A MAN was granted $10,000 bail yesterday after he was accused of causing the death of two people on a motorcycle in a traffic accident on East Street last October.
Magistrate Samuel McKinney charged Michanko Bethell, 30, with two counts of vehicular manslaughter.
Bethell allegedly drove a blue 2007 Mitsubishi vehicle south on East Street on October 16, 2023. While attempting to overtake another car, Bethell allegedly crashed into a black Yamaha XTV motorcycle travelling north with a male driver and two female passengers on it.
While Bethell and a female motorcycle passenger were successfully treated for their serious injuries in the hospital, the motorcycle driver, Rhashan Rolle and his other female passenger, Deandre Woodside, died at the scene.
After being informed that his matter would be moved to the Supreme Court by a Voluntary Bill of Indictment (VBI), Bethell was granted $10,000 bail with one or two sureties.
Under the terms of his bail, the defendant must sign in at East Street South Police Station every Saturday by 6pm.
His VBI is due for service on March 25.
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