SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas felon in connection with a shooting incident.
Just after 6:30 a.m. Thursday, the Wichita Police Department Violent Crimes Community Response Team (VCCRT) officers and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team executed a search warrant at a residence in the 1700 block of West Anita in Wichita, according to officer Charley Davidson.
During the execution of the warrant, police arrested 33-year-old Dontreal Banks and recovered a rifle, handgun, heroin, ecstasy, and ammunition. They also located a vehicle was that believed to have been involved in an April shooting incident.
Banks is currently is a federal parolee and was released into the custody of the United States Marshall’s Service on federal firearm and drug charges, and a federal parole violation, stemming from ongoing gun investigations, according to Davidson.
In addition, Banks has been arrested and convicted of charges that include robbery, criminal possession of a firearm, criminal discharge of a firearm, and possession of drugs, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.