MARION COUNTY — A 31-year-old Centralia man facing seven outstanding felony cases, four DUI cases and approximately 15 traffic cases failed to appear in Marion County Court Wednesday.

This was the second subsequent court date for which T.J. Howard has failed to appear.

He failed to appear at a January hearing for the nearly 30 cases that date back to 2013. But his attorney requested Wednesday that the cases be again continued, this time until February 21.

Howard last appeared on the cases November 11, 2017, but they have continually been continued since his last arrest in August 2017, despite Judge Marc Kelly ruling against any further delays last March.

At that time Howard was serving a sentence in the Lawrenceville prison on a 2012 felony case, with six others still outstanding.

Before his release from prison, however, Howard was greeted with another criminal felony case to add to the collection, this one for alleged robbery and possession of a controlled substance.

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