LAPORTE COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) - A judge has denied the bond reduction request for the man accused of hitting two New Prairie United School Corporation mini buses with a box truck last month in LaPorte County.

41-year-old Shawn Akison is charged in LaPorte County with criminal recklessness after seven players and two coaches with the New Prairie JV baseball team were injured in a crash on May 8 at the intersection of U.S. 20 and Fail Road. He was also charged in St. Joseph County with resisting law enforcement.

Akison is being held on a $15,005.00 cash-only bond and had asked for a bond reduction during a court hearing last month . But according to MyCase , that request was denied on Friday morning.

Akison’s next hearing is scheduled for July 25. He is set to go on trial in LaPor

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