{"id":389374,"date":"2026-07-07T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389374\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T16:38:11","slug":"5m-bond-for-highland-man-accused-of-killing-motorcyclist-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389374\/","title":{"rendered":"$5M bond for Highland man accused of killing motorcyclist \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Highland Township man is jailed with bond set at $5 million, facing a felony charge for allegedly killing a motorcyclist in a traffic crash on June 29 in White Lake Township.<\/p>\n

Brian Timothy McCullen, 54, is charged with operating while license suspended\/revoked\/denied \u2013 causing death. He was arraigned on July 3 in 52-2 District Court, where the high bond \u2014 with no 10% provision \u2014 was set by Magistrate Lewis Langham.<\/p>\n

The victim was identified as Charles Thomas Murphy, 70, of Holly. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n

\"mugshot\"Brian McCullen booking photo<\/p>\n

According to White Lake Township police, Murphy was on a Harley Davidson motorcycle traveling east on White Lake Road near Teggerdine Road when he was struck by a Dodge Caravan traveling west on White Lake Road. McCullen was injured in the crash but subsequently cleared by medical staff and arrested by police.<\/p>\n

McCullen\u2019s next court appearance is scheduled for July 13 for a probable cause conference before Judge Michael Fabrizio. A preliminary exam is scheduled for a week later.<\/p>\n

Virginia man facing murder charges for I-75 crash that killed 2 kids, 2 adults<\/a><\/p>\n

Trial scheduled for RCOC plow truck driver accused of killing man in hit-and-run crash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Highland Township man is jailed with bond set at $5 million, facing a felony charge for allegedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[156930,156933,156932,156927,1099,156929,23898,143,145,144,156928,156931],"class_list":["post-389374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-52-2-district-court","tag-brian-mccullen","tag-charles-murphy","tag-fatal-motorcycle-crash","tag-harley-davidson","tag-judge-michael-fabrizio","tag-motorcyclist-killed","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-suspended-drivers-license","tag-white-lake-fatal-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}