Man Accused in Dragging Death of Trooper Violates Bond, State Police Call for Jail

(Originally posted on Oct. 12, 2016) A Waterford man who was tied to the death of Michigan State Police Trooper Chad Wolf was arrested in northern Michigan for allegedly violating his bond conditions, and State Police officials say the man should be in jail.

“We’ll leave it to the judge, but it’s our opinion that he can’t be trusted to obey the court’s orders on his own and needs some type of state supervision,” Michigan State Police First Lt. Michael Shaw told The Daily Tribune on behalf of the state police agency.

Charles Raymond Warren Jr., 69, is charged with reckless driving causing death and failure to stop at the scene of an accident causing death in the Aug. 28, 2015 incident that led to trooper Wolf’s death.

Warren, who is next scheduled for a pretrial hearing Nov. 9 in Oakland Circuit Judge Denise Langford Morris’s courtroom, is now set for a motion hearing to determine whether his bond is revoked.

Warren’s bond conditions dictated his license was suspended and that he not drive a vehicle while free on a $10,000 bond. But, according to a motion filed on Oct. 4 by the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office, Warren was driving a red Ford truck in Central Lake, Michigan on Sept. 21, “failing to signal a turn in (five) separate occasions and failed to stop at a stop sign.”"

Wolf was on patrol in the area of Dixie Highway near I-75 in Springfield Township when he and Warren collided as the two were merging onto the expressway. The trooper — a married father of four who was also a youth pastor in Holly Township — was dragged nearly four miles along the expressway after getting tangled up with an empty trailer Warren was hauling with his Volkswagen Jetta.

Photo via Michigan State Police.