Formal charges were read Thursday against the Bend man indicted in a fatal January hit and run. Bret Lee Biedscheid, who appeared in Deschutes County Circuit Court, was then ordered by Judge Barbara Haslinger to report to county jail for booking.

Biedscheid, 38, faces charges of criminally negligent homicide and failure to perform the duties of a driver when a person is killed in connection with the death of Anthony “Tony” Martin, of Bend. Martin, 48, was pushing his bicycle across Third Street at around 11 p.m. Jan. 26, when he was struck by a southbound pickup truck.

At Thursday’s arraignment, Haslinger instructed Biedscheid to proceed from the courthouse to the jail to be fingerprinted and photographed. Bail was set at $250,000, and Biedscheid was ordered to stay out of businesses that primarily sell alcohol and to abstain from drinking.

Biedscheid will be back in court on June 27 to enter pleas to the charges against him.

Police and the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office declined to identify Biedscheid as the target of their investigation for nearly a month after the crash, until District Attorney Patrick Flaherty confirmed he was considered a “person of interest.” A grand jury indicted Biedscheid on Tuesday.

Arriving more than 20 minutes early to his hearing, Biedscheid sat in the front row of Haslinger’s small courtroom dressed in a dark blue suit. He did not interact with the two women sitting with him, or anyone else in the courtroom until the arrival of his attorney, Stephen Houze of Portland.

Houze and Deschutes County Chief Deputy District Attorney Traci Anderson told Haslinger they had been in contact prior to the hearing to discuss release conditions for Biedscheid.

Biedscheid posted the required 10 percent of bail, $25,000, and was released from custody Thursday morning, jail officials said.

Tony Martin’s stepson, Olen Grimes, was among the friends and family of the victim who attended Thursday’s hearing.

Grimes, 33, said he remains concerned that Biedscheid’s standing in the community — he is the director of accounting at Les Schwab Tire Centers — has allowed him to enjoy preferential treatment following the crash that killed Martin. People without Biedscheid’s resources likely would have been arrested shortly after the crash, Grimes said, and would still be in jail unable to post bail.

“His status, my stepfather’s status, regardless, somebody’s life was taken, period,” Grimes said.

Grimes said he’d like to see the District Attorney’s Office steer clear of a plea deal with Biedscheid. A jury, he said, would judge Biedscheid fairly for leaving the scene of the crash.

“I’m sure anybody who’s got any kind of conscience or any kind of morals knows a life has been taken, period,” Grimes said. “Tony could be alive today. A life could have been saved.”