BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. – A longtime fugitive from the law accused of slaying a Bluff City resident in September 2008 pleaded not guilty to 1st-degree murder on Friday.
Abrey Wayne Fortner, 31, appeared in Sullivan County Criminal Court after he was extradited from North Carolina, where he was arrested in January.
Fortner has a lengthy criminal history that includes malicious wounding, brandishing a firearm and breaking and entering. A grand jury in 2008 indicted him for the murder of Arthur Burchard, who was found with his throat slit at his Bluff City apartment.
Read tomorrow’s Bristol Herald Courier for more details.
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