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The Newport Police Department, with an assist from the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory in Little Rock, have solved a rash of burglaries from early 2009.
According to an affidavit filed by Detective Kyle Williford of the Newport Police Department, at least four burglaries - three residential and one commercial - can be tied to a convicted offender from Illinois.
According to finger print and DNA evidence obtained by the authorities during their investigation into the incidents Lavar Burton Canada has been charged with three counts of Residential Burglary, four counts of Theft of Property, one count of Commercial Burglary and one count of Criminal Mischief in the First Degree after his finger prints were matched by the Crime Lab.
The affidavit states that the suspect, which had been identified by latent finger prints in mid-May, had taken approximately $3,500 from the residential burglaries while the commercial burglary netted items "well in excess of $2,500" as well as allegedly doing less than $500 in damage to the facility.
Canada, which had no connections to any of the four sites, is a convicted felon in Illinois and faces enhanced penalties as an "habitual offender."
He appeared Monday, Oct. 26 in District Court before Judge Barbara A. Griffin who set his bond at $50,000. He also was scheduled to appear in Jackson County Circuit Court Tuesday.
At the time of his arraignment in Jackson County he was being held on a series of unrelated charges in Jonesboro.
The Newport Police Department, with an assist from the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory in Little Rock, have solved a rash of burglaries from early 2009.
According to an affidavit filed by Detective Kyle Williford of the Newport Police Department, at least four burglaries - three residential and one commercial - can be tied to a convicted offender from Illinois.
According to finger print and DNA evidence obtained by the authorities during their investigation into the incidents Lavar Burton Canada has been charged with three counts of Residential Burglary, four counts of Theft of Property, one count of Commercial Burglary and one count of Criminal Mischief in the First Degree after his finger prints were matched by the Crime Lab.
The affidavit states that the suspect, which had been identified by latent finger prints in mid-May, had taken approximately $3,500 from the residential burglaries while the commercial burglary netted items "well in excess of $2,500" as well as allegedly doing less than $500 in damage to the facility.
Canada, which had no connections to any of the four sites, is a convicted felon in Illinois and faces enhanced penalties as an "habitual offender."
He appeared Monday, Oct. 26 in District Court before Judge Barbara A. Griffin who set his bond at $50,000. He also was scheduled to appear in Jackson County Circuit Court Tuesday.
At the time of his arraignment in Jackson County he was being held on a series of unrelated charges in Jonesboro.
