MARION COUNTY — A July 16 jury trial date was confirmed Wednesday in Marion County court for a 31-year-old Centralia man facing seven outstanding felony cases, four DUI cases and approximately 15 traffic violations.

TJ Howard is scheduled to be tried on a 2016 case charging him with two counts aggravated fleeing and eluding police and two counts driving while license suspended or revoked – all four counts are Class 4 felonies. The other six felony and four DUI cases will be tried separately.

The cases date back to a 2011 DUI case and extend through to a 2017 case on two Class 2 felony narcotics charges.

Howard is currently free on $15,000 cash bond after he was arrested in May in California on multiple Marion County warrants.

A $150,000 warrant was issued in February for Howard’s arrest after he failed to appear at his last four Marion County court dates on the nearly 30 separate cases.

Howard made headlines in 2016 after he posted $25,000 cash bond on his seventh outstanding felony case in Marion County which brought his total bond posted that year to $58,000.

That amount increased in 2017, however, when Howard was arrested on new charges and posted $7,500 bond for release.

According to court records, most of that more than $65,000 was ordered forfeited to the county after Howard failed to appear in court.