Crip Leader May be Going to Jail Finally...Again
Some of you may remember Bobby Banks from the HBO documentary Gang War: Bangin' in Little Rock. He mentioned in it that he felt he could never be "faded".
Authorities pull fugitive from LR hide-out
BY JIM BROOKS
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Federal and local law enforcement officers arrested a fugitive Tuesday night as he hid in a crawl space at his girlfriend’s Little Rock home. Last year, a federal grand jury indicted Bobby Glenn Banks, 29, who was charged as the organizer of a large-scale drug-trafficking organization responsible for distributing cocaine, in powder and crack forms, in the Little Rock area. He was released on home incarceration pending trial, but he violated the agreement, officials said.
About 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, members of the Metropolitan Violent Crime Task Force, a unit made up of FBI officials and members of the Little Rock Police Department, arrested Banks as he hid in his girlfriend’s home at 5805 Windamere Drive. Officers also arrested Banks’ girlfriend, Katrina Harshaw, whose age wasn’t available.
"I have asked all of our law enforcement partners to aggressively pursue any person who is a fugitive in violation of the Court’s orders," U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins said in a news release. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Little Rock Police Department are to be commended for pulling him out of his hole."
Banks, whose nickname "Big C" refers to his position as a leader of a Crips gang in Little Rock, has an extensive history of arrests for violent crimes. "He’s one of those people that’s just been around causing pain and problems for a long time," said John Johnson, chief deputy prosecuting attorney in Pulaski County.
"It seems that every time he gets out, he starts up again." In 1993, Johnson tried Banks on a murder charge in a shooting near 15th and Oak streets that resulted in the death of a 14-year-old girl.
Johnson said prosecutors charged Banks and Melvin Johnson in the murder of Lamesha Barton, who was shot as she stood in a crowd at the intersection in the heart of Bloods territory in central Little Rock. Melvin Johnson was the shooter, authorities said. A jury acquitted Banks, and charges against Johnson later had to be dismissed after a witness changed his story.
This story was published Friday, September 16, 2005
Copyright © 2005, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.
Authorities pull fugitive from LR hide-out
BY JIM BROOKS
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Federal and local law enforcement officers arrested a fugitive Tuesday night as he hid in a crawl space at his girlfriend’s Little Rock home. Last year, a federal grand jury indicted Bobby Glenn Banks, 29, who was charged as the organizer of a large-scale drug-trafficking organization responsible for distributing cocaine, in powder and crack forms, in the Little Rock area. He was released on home incarceration pending trial, but he violated the agreement, officials said.
About 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, members of the Metropolitan Violent Crime Task Force, a unit made up of FBI officials and members of the Little Rock Police Department, arrested Banks as he hid in his girlfriend’s home at 5805 Windamere Drive. Officers also arrested Banks’ girlfriend, Katrina Harshaw, whose age wasn’t available.
"I have asked all of our law enforcement partners to aggressively pursue any person who is a fugitive in violation of the Court’s orders," U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins said in a news release. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Little Rock Police Department are to be commended for pulling him out of his hole."
Banks, whose nickname "Big C" refers to his position as a leader of a Crips gang in Little Rock, has an extensive history of arrests for violent crimes. "He’s one of those people that’s just been around causing pain and problems for a long time," said John Johnson, chief deputy prosecuting attorney in Pulaski County.
"It seems that every time he gets out, he starts up again." In 1993, Johnson tried Banks on a murder charge in a shooting near 15th and Oak streets that resulted in the death of a 14-year-old girl.
Johnson said prosecutors charged Banks and Melvin Johnson in the murder of Lamesha Barton, who was shot as she stood in a crowd at the intersection in the heart of Bloods territory in central Little Rock. Melvin Johnson was the shooter, authorities said. A jury acquitted Banks, and charges against Johnson later had to be dismissed after a witness changed his story.
This story was published Friday, September 16, 2005
Copyright © 2005, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.
posted by Steve Nawojczyk at
4:21 AM
1 Comments:
I FEEL THAT THE MEDIA HAS PORTRAITED BOBBY BANKS AS AN ANIMAL. ALTHOUGH HE HAS DONE ALOT OF BAD THINGS JUST AS EVERYONE ELSE, DOESN'T GIVE ANYONE THE RIGHT TO DOWN GRADE HIM. IT PISSES ME OFF THAT THE MEDIA BRINGS UP HIS PAST JUST TO MAKE HIM LOOK BAD. YOU KNOW SOMETHING IS BEING GAMBLED WITH WHEN YOU HEAR OF HIS OWN BROTHER TESTIFY AGAINST HIM. IT'S ALL BULLS**T! TO BE HONEST, I THINK THAT THE POLICE AS WELL AS THE FEDS ARE SCARED OF HIM BECAUSE OF THE AUTHORITY THAT HE HAS. I DON'T BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT THE MEDIA HAS SAID ABOUT HIM. THEY JUST NEED TO F**K OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!
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