Lower bond denied for alleged OP hit-and-run driver

A Johnson County judge denied bond yesterday for Jill Conaghan, the 19-year-old woman charged with involuntary manslaughter and driving under the influence in connection with the hit-and-run death of an Overland Park woman.

The Kansas City Star reports

that the judge refused to lower Conaghan’s bond due to her history of

drug abuse. The judge even said her abuse of drugs left him “genuinely

concerned about public safety.”

Meanwhile, Conaghan’s defense attorneys argued in favor of allowing her to finish an out-of-state, drug-treatment program.