Luderman In Court

A Napoleon has been arraigned here in Wood County Common Pleas Court on 12 charges related to a fatal crash he allegedly caused on Interstate 75 earlier this month. Nicholas Luderman, 24, pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, each a second-degree felony; four counts of aggravated vehicular assault, each a third-degree felony; tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony; three counts of failure to stop after an accident, third-, fourth- and fifth-degree felonies; OVI, an unclassified misdemeanor; and failure to stop after an accident involving the property of others, a first-degree misdemeanor. A pretrial hearing was scheduled for May 6. Bond was set at $175,000 cash with no 10% allowance provision during a hearing Monday in Wood County Common Pleas Court. Luderman was indicted by a Wood County grand jury on April 7.