ORANGEBURG, S.C. (WCSC) - A judge in Orangeburg County set bond Friday for the man now charged in the Aug. 13 death of a South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper.

Anthony Aydlette, 45, of Hanahan now faces a charge of reckless homicide in addition to an earlier charge of operating a vehicle on a suspended license, authorities said.

A judge set a $250,000 cash surety bond on Friday afternoon, WIS-TV reported . The judge also ordered Aydlette not to leave the state if he posted bail and to have no contact with the trooper’s family.

Sheriff Leroy Ravenell told reporters at a Friday morning news conference that the reckless homicide charge had been filed Thursday in connection with the early-morning crash on Aug. 10 in which Trooper First Class Dennis Ricks, 30, was struck by a box truck tha

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