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Caught Our Eye

Capitol Police officer no stranger to legal woes

Posted by LegiStorm on May 23, 2016

A Capitol Police officer arrested last week for harboring a fugitive has had other legal issues in the past.

K-9 officer Daryl Banks and his wife Dana were arrested at their home in Monrovia, Md. on May 18 on charges of harboring a fugitive of justice and obstruction after hiding a man on the run and then lying about it, police said. The fugitive had alleged ties to an international criminal drug enterprise.

This won't be either Banks' first time in court as defendant. The couple has been ensnared in numerous court cases over the past decade. These cases are largely financial judgements and liens, with one issued earlier this month.

However, a years-long court battle played out in the D.C. area after several lawsuits were filed by a man who Banks arrested in 2004. The man he arrested accused the K-9 cop of false arrest, false imprisonment, assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligence. The last of the lawsuits was dismissed in 2009.

Their latest, most serious, run-in with the law stems from a phone call to Maryland sheriff deputies from Nashville police who said they'd gotten a tip that their man on the lam, Fredy S. Reyes, was hiding out on a particular block in Monrovia, Md. But when police showed up at the Banks' home, they were greeted by the homeowners who wouldn't let them in and repeatedly told the police that Reyes was elsewhere, according to accounts by police.

Just one problem: as the Banks told their story, police could see Reyes running away from their house.

Still, the couple wouldn't cop to it. Frederick County deputies got a search warrant and arrested the couple and sent them to jail. They were released on their own recognizance later that day, according to court records.

They are due in court in July.

 

Subjects: Daryl E. Banks