Former Blytheville resident Marcus Antonio Smith, was arraigned in Blytheville District Court Thursday on charges of aggravated robbery and battery first degree.
Smith was brought back from Craighead County where he is being held on a $5 million dollar bond in the shooting death of a Jonesboro man, to appear before District Judge Shannon Langston, who found probably cause to bound Smith over to Blytheville Circuit Court to answer the charges on March 27, 2008.
Langston also set Smith's bond at $250,000 cash.
Smith was then transported to the Mississippi County Jail, before being transported back to Craighead County.
Smith is charged in the July 26, 2008, robbery and shooting of Stanley Faulkner.
At 4:05 p.m. on that day, police were called to the 600 block of South Lake for a report of a man being shot.
When police arrived, they found Stanley Faulkner laying in the front yard with a gunshot wound to the lower left leg. Mississippi County EMS was called to transport Faulkner to Great River Medical Center, where he was then transferred to Regional Medical Center in Memphis, where he ended up having his leg amputated just above the knee.
Faulkner told police that he had been forced into the residence at South Lake, and was robbed at gunpoint by two black males, one with a handgun and the other with a shotgun.
The two men made Faulkner get undressed and attempted to make him get into the trunk of a car.
Faulkner apparently began to fight with the two men and was able to grab the handgun away from one of the men and run.
The other man began firing shotgun blasts at Faulkner as he ran to a nearby residence, with one shot hitting Faulkner in the lower leg.
Police obtained a search warrant of the residence and found Faulkner's clothes and also looked like there had been a struggle in the room.
Information was received by witnesses in the area that Marcus Smith along with the other man known as "Bootsie," robbed Faulkner for a large sum of money and then shot him as Faulkner was trying to get away. After the shooting, Smith and "Bootsie" then fled the area to Jonesboro.
On Feb. 6, 2009, Smith was arrested in Crittenden County on the Blytheville warrants as well as other felony warrants out of Craighead County, and then transported back to Craighead County where he is jailed awaiting trial on his charges.