A 25-year-old Fort Smith man who had a number of previously sealed charges against him for prior arrests finds himself facing almost $29,000 in cash, legally sufficient, and signature bonds after an arrest on Tuesday by the Fort Smth Police Department.
E'juan Pierre Burton, whose address were the court was listed as the 3300 block of North 55th Street in Fort Smith, was booked into the Sebastian County detention center on Tuesday and faces 19 separate criminal counts for crimes dating all the way back to 2021.
The July 26 arrest of Burton, which includes four felony counts police say he committed on that date, are just the tip of an iceberg of the various charges he faces. Burton faces two court dates in City Court and State Court for all of his combined infractions including ten charges in Fort Smith City Court and nine felony charges in Fort Smith circuit Court.
On the District Court docket, Burton will have to answer to misdemeanor failure to appear, contempt/willful disobedience for failure to pay fines, contempt of court for failure to comply with court costs or fines, as well as six counts of misdemeanor theft of property.
Part of the charges that show up now on Burton were part of four listed with Sebastian County Circuit Court that says they were sealed per court order. However when you click on those charges, the criminal counts parallel the ones he is currently facing after his recent arrest.
Of the items listed inside the circuit court records that doesn't indicate sealed charges, the crimes listed are possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and the petition to revoke
On the circuit Court side of things. ee faces felony robbery fourr felony theft of property charges, another misdemeanor failure to appear and two failure to pay fines and failure to comply charges on the state level.
Burton has court dates in both District and Circuit court on July 31.
