{"id":355,"date":"2005-05-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/article\/its-no-illusiobranson-magician-kirby-vanburch-gets-probation-on-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"its-no-illusiobranson-magician-kirby-vanburch-gets-probation-on-felony-and-misdemeanor-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s no illusioBranson magician Kirby VanBurch gets probation on felony and misdemeanor charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font size=\"4\">In March, Branson entertainer, illusionist and magician, Kirby VanBurch, plead guilty to the felony charge of unlawful use of a weapon and the misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated and third-degree assault on a law enforcement officer. In return for the guilty plead the prosecution agreed to recommend probation instead of jail time.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"4\"> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font size=\"4\">On May 12, VanBurch was sentenced to five years of supervised probation on the felony charge and two year supervised probation on the misdemeanor charges.<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"4\"> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font size=\"4\">According to a Branson Police Department Press Release dated March 14, 2003, Kirby VanBurch of Branson, was arrested at approximately 9:50 p.m. on 03\/10\/03, shortly after he left the scene of an accident near Highway 76 and <st1:street w:st=\"on\"><st1:address w:st=\"on\">Fall Creek Rd.<\/st1:street>&rdquo;<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>According to the Press Release, &ldquo;the vehicle he was driving struck two road signs at that location and then continued to travel east-bound on Highway 76.&rdquo;<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"COLOR: black\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"4\"> <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font size=\"4\">The Press Release further states, &ldquo;VanBurch was arrested for Leaving the Scene of an Accident and Driving While Intoxicated.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>In searching the vehicle VanBurch was driving, incident to the arrest, a concealed firearm was found and he was further charged with that violation.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>During the process, he assaulted the arresting officer, resulting in an additional charge of Assaulting a Police Officer.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>The case has been forwarded to the Taney County Prosecutor&rsquo;s office for the filing of charges.&rdquo;<\/font><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Originally Published In the <a href=\"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/\">Branson Courier<\/a> on May 22, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VanBurch, plead guilty to the felony charge of unlawful use of a weapon and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows-attractions-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bransoncourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}