Thirty-one year-old Fort Smith felon headed back to prison on drug and paraphernalia charges

Some people never learn, and our lenient justice system doesn't do much in teaching them a lesson.

A Fort Smith man who has been given imposed sentences totaling 471 months (39.25 years) since 2009 on a myriad of felony convictions is heading back to prison after a plea agreement last Wednesday for five years with ten years suspended on Possession of Controlled Substance and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia charges.

Marshall D. Reeves, 31, whose last conviction was in 2018 for a 48-month sentence, was out of prison after serving less than two years before he was arrested April 25 of this year on the drug charges. He had apparently been out of prison less than six months because he was also driving on a suspended license and he had not reported to his parole officer and was wanted for absconding as well.

The arrest triggered a parole violation as well, but that was dropped as part of the plea deal last week.

The 471 months referenced above includes all the additional time Reeves was sentenced to that ran concurrently in his 12-plus year crime spree. In addition, he has received 588 months (49 years) in suspended sentences for all of his convictions.

Reeves felony convictions have not included:

-Possession of Controlled Substance

-Possession of Drug Paraphernalia

-Maintaining a Drug Premises

-Robbery

-Forgery

-Breaking and Entering (twice)

-Felony Failure to Appear

Reeves, who will await transfer to the ADC at the Sebastian County det6ention Center, has also had more than a half dozen Petitions to Revoke dropped against him in his history of plea deals.