Or Catch & Release! Squawk! Catch & Release!
Greenbrook Flowers, Pig & Pint, Downtown Snack Shop, Steve's Deli, Downtown Drug Store, Iron Horse Grill, Shiro's, Keifers, La Cazuela, Jaco's Taco's, Stanley Wine & Liquor, Fenians, Downtown Pizza & Daiquiri, Native Coffee, and Snack Shack. These are the businesses repeatedly burglarized by Hinds County Catch & Release star pupil and downtown bum, John Arthur Banks. Despited pleading guilty six times to hitting Jackson businesses, Banks is set free to terrorize more businesses.
Check out his criminal history. Keep in mind Banks has never gone to trial as he always pleads guilty.
2009: Indicted for business burglary. Banks pleads guilty. He is sentenced to serve 5 years in prison but the entire sentence is suspended.
2017: Indicted for building burglary at Jaco's Tacos. Hinds County Circuit Judge Bill Gowan sentenced Banks to serve 7 years in prison but suspended 4 years of the sentence. Banks' residence was listed as Gateway Shelter.
2018: Indicted for building burglary at Stanley Wine & Liquor. Judge Gowan sentenced Banks to serve 7 years in prison but suspended 3 years of the sentence. He ordered the sentence to run concurrently with the sentence in the 2017 case.
2019: Indicted for business burglary of Downtown Snack Shop on West Capitol Street. Judge William Kidd sentences him to serve 7 years in prison and suspends 2 years of the sentence. Banks is ordered to drug/alcohol treatment.
2020: Indicted for two counts of business burglary. Banks hit Greenbrook Flowers and the Iron Horse Grill in 2019. Judge Kidd sentenced Banks to serve 7 years in prison but suspended 2 years of the sentence.
2022: Indicted for business burglary after he hit the Hood Building. Judge Faye Peterson sentenced Banks to serve 7 years in prison but suspended 2 years. The District Attorney agreed not to pursue habitual offender enhancement.
2022: Indicted for 10 counts of business burglary. Banks hit La Cazuela Mexican Grill, Keifer's Restaurant on Congress Street, Shiro's Restaurant, Downtown Pizza & Daiquiri, Steve's Deli, Mississippi Farmer's Market, Downtown Drug Store, Pig & Pint Restaurant, Fenians, and Tatum & Wade law firm. The District Attorney remanded the indictment as part of his sentence in the other 2022 case.
2024: Capitol Police arrested Banks in July 2024 for business burglary after he hit the Farmer's Market, Downtown Drug Store, Native Coffee, and Lou's Restaurant. Hinds County Court Judge Johnny McDaniels ordered him transported to MDOC for a one-year revocation in September 2024.
2024: Indicted in October 2024 for business burglary and habitual offender in the Capitol Police cases. The District Attorney seeks habitual offender enhancement for Banks. Judge Damon Stevenson set Banks' trial for July 2026.
Oh yes, remember that revocation? Well, the Mississippi Parole Board once again couldn't wait to put a criminal back out on the street. You can't make this up.
Make no mistake, the police is doing its job. When this old boy acts up, the police find him and lock him up. However, prosecutors, judges, and MDOC work together to keep putting this guy back out on the street and they wonder why businesses leave Jackson.
22 comments:
Headlines: Justice system destroys Capital city of Mississippi
It blows my mind that someone can get that much time and not serve any of it.
How many crimes has he done that he is not charged with? What is the explanation for the judges? Does not look to have the money to pay them off.
Can we provide him with a list of the addresses of all the judges and parole board members home locations??? Maybe he can hit the easy targets since they are all soft on crime?
This is genius. Nothing sill change until the “masters” feel our pain.
let's just see if our courts will continue to let him free and we can investigate further.
You can blame all the others in the justice system, but I place the blame on the State Legislature for seeing examples such as this over and over and allowing the madness to continue. We don't have to live like this.
Maybe if one of these wonderful businesses he has hit would provide him food, a cot to sleep in the back, and use of its restroom facilities, he would stop this behavior….but then, again, probably not!
Or another idea based on the “three strikes, you’re out” legal idea, the third time a previously sentenced criminal commits another crime, the judges and parole board members involved are out of a job.
Doing what they did in Casino when the mob caught the cheaters would do even better. See, when the criminal justice system decides to do nothing and allow punks such as this one to terrorize society, well, don't be surprised if a business owner beats him to a pulp if he catches him. A functioning criminal justice system protects just not victims but criminals as well from such rough justice. At this point, any business owner is justified in making sure he gets the idea never to come back again.
It's going to have to get worse before it gets better.
Poster child for the Hinds County Injustice System-
Valid point. We've devolved to a society in this State/Country where vigilante justice would be justified again like it's the 1830s again. Sad.
This is why I left hinds county years ago
Sounds like he's a prime candidate for a second amendment related incident.
Meanwhile: The Edmund Fitzgerald sank. Getchur priorities straight!
Some Hinds County Judges have personal homes in safer communities in surrounding counties. They have houses in Hinds County for election purposes. They care nothing about the Safety of the poor people they were elected to serve. Just my opinion, maybe not a fact!
Everytime that this career criminal is released it is "rewarding bad behaviour." Basic psychology.
You notice that he doesn't try this crap in Madison County?
6:20pm only Hinds County Sanctuary Judicial District, where criminals hone their craft.
6:20pm they criminals, but they ain’t that stupid! They can’t get contraband in the Madison County Jail.
He's smarter than the whole Hinds County justice system. That's obvious.
Doesn't the blog identify MDOC parole board as the entity cutting this guy loose. Don't get me wrong, I'm actually a little impressed that Hinds County managed to prosecute and convict the sob .... seven times.
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