Banks hit 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, Hood Building, a law firm, and Snack Shack.
Downtown businesses can breathe a sigh of relief after John Arthur Banks pleaded guilty to multiple counts of business burglary yesterday in Hinds County Circuit Court. Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens, II issued the following statement.
John A. Banks, 53, pled guilty to five counts of business burglary across two separate causes. Under the first cause, Banks was charged as a habitual offender and received three seven-year sentences, to run concurrently. Under the second clause, he received two additional seven-year sentences, also to run concurrently. The sentences for each cause will run consecutively, resulting in a total sentence of 14 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Banks was also ordered to complete mandatory drug treatment.
The convictions cover his burglaries of The Farmer's Market (High Street), Sabour Lounge (Pearl Street), Native Coffee (N. State St.), Snack Shop (W. Capitol St.), and the Downtown Drug Store (S. State St.).
Banks has a special affection for downtown businesses as he has been terrorizing downtown businesses since 2018. He has no less than six felony convictions for business burglary or similar charges yet he is always set free to cause more mayhem and destruction. Banks' victims include 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, Hood Building, a law firm, and Snack Shack. Banks hit several more than once. He specializes in smashing windows so he can enter to vandalize the business even further.
Check out Banks' criminal record. 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 theIron 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.
16 comments:
So he'll be out soon?
Concurrently meaning 'at the same time', if all the sentences are seven years and they all run concurrently, he serves, at most, seven years.
Do the pre-sentencing reports not list out all of these prior convictions? How are these judges not seeing that suspending the sentences IS NOT HELPING A SINGLE DAMN ONE OF US.
People like this should be put down like a dog
Parole board is full of liberals.
How does someone keep getting sentenced to multiple years in prison, every year for eight years, yet every year continue to rack up new charges?
Someone do the world a favor and when he's out soon, someone drop him off in Madison county so he can commit one crime. We'll send him away and he'll no longer be a menace to society. He'll be living off of our dime, but he's doing that already when he's a free man.
Audible alarms would help.
Good ol' boy Jody, trying to influence his pending jury pool one press release at a time. For a "part-time" DA he is kicking butt. Right?
10:23 was sarcastic.
2009: whoever suspended the sentence needs to pay restitution to the businesses who were screwed.
2017: Judge Gowan left him with 3 years but somehow he was indicted again in 2018.
2018: another burglary, to serve 4 more years.
2019: indicted again, Judge Kidd, suppose to serve 5 years.
2020: indicted again, Judge Kidd, suppose to serve 5 years
2022: indicted again, Judge Peterson, suppose to serve 5 years
2022: indicted again, 10 counts, indictment remanded as part of the other 2022 case.
2024: indicted again, Judge McDaniels sent him to MDOC for 1 year
2024: indicted again, Judge Stevenson sets trial for July 2026
I dont understand. We’ve got 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 5 years, 5 years, 1 year.
This is 23 years total that he was suppose to be in jail.
Keep electing the same progressive bleeding heart judges and expect different results?
Just another example of the legal system being a tax payer funded business that profits on repeat customers. Taxpayers got to pay over and over and over again for what should have been one conviction and one multi year sentence. That wouldn’t provide jobs for the cargo cultists that put on costumes and pretend to be effective officials though. Productive business owners be damned we have to have job security for the pretend government in Hinds County.
Artistically, his photo presents as an iconic convict, he could easily do time as a stock prison character in movies, looks like a cartoon bad guy. I wouldn't have known he is black without the booking sheet, and he looks 15 years older than his birthday indicates.
In the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia he would have had both hands cut off. Cheap solution that is very effective.
"Parole board is full of liberals"
Weren't they all appointed by the governor?
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