A Floyd County man charged with murder after a deadly weekend car crash pleads not guilty.

Jonathan Pente is being held on half a million dollars bond in the Floyd County Detention Center after police say he was driving under the influence and slammed into a van at an intersection on U.S. 23 early Saturday morning.

63-year-old Loretta Elswick of Pike County died. Pente is also charged with menacing and resisting arrest because police say he left the accident scene.