Wichita police SWAT team arrests federal parolee who had guns and drugs at home

A Wichita police SWAT team arrested a federal parolee who had guns and drugs at home.

Dontreal Banks, 33, was arrested without incident when police officers served a search warrant at a home in the 1700 block of West Anita at around 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, Officer Charley Davidson said in a news release. The officers found a rifle, a handgun, heroin, ecstasy and ammunition.

They also found a vehicle that is believed to have been involved in a shooting earlier this month, police said.

The case will be presented to federal prosecutors for criminal charges.

Banks has previously been convicted of robbery, criminal possession of a firearm, criminal discharge of a firearm and drug possession, police said. He is on federal parole, and filings in U.S. District Court show a warrant petition and a violation report were filed on Thursday. Neither document is available for public viewing.

His previous federal case stems from a monitored phone conversation he had with an inmate at the state prison in Hutchinson in February 2015. While on the phone call, he said he never goes to a club without his “burner,” which was slang for a gun, according to his plea deal.

Banks was on parole at the time through the Kansas Department of Corrections, and investigators searched his home the same day as the call. They found a Norinco AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifle with a loaded magazine in his closet.

He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm following a felony conviction and was sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release. Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate records show Banks was released in November 2018.

This story was originally published April 23, 2020 at 5:35 PM.