Found Deceased MD - Stewart Banks, 56, Baltimore, 21 Feb 2014 *Arrest*

Police on Tuesday announced 56-year-old Stewart Banks Jr. was missing and was last seen on Friday, February 21. Police said Banks was last seen leaving his house on East University Parkway, wearing a tan raincoat, blue jeans and silver wire-framed glasses. According to police the man left a note for his daughter, saying he was going to the hospital. The man never made it to the hospital and has not been seen or heard from since.

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After Stewart Banks Jr., 56, left his home on East University Parkway, surveillance cameras captured video of him standing and walking outside Greenmount Loan and Jewelry in the 3100 block of Greenmount Avenue in northeast Baltimore. Police said it was the last time anyone has seen him since Feb. 21.

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Police searching for man missing since February



Read more: http://www.wbaltv.com/news/police-searching-for-man-missing-since-february/26351040#ixzz33o5jFtNa

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Investigators in Detroit said Banks' body was badly decomposed and had multiple stab wounds. They are ruling his death a homicide. Officials said dental records were used to identify him.

Read more: http://www.wbaltv.com/news/missing-baltimore-man-found-dead-in-detroit/29314822#ixzz3H4PxOjxV

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According to Banks' family, he was last seen with his son-in-law, Robert Ricks, at a Megabus station; however, police said they had no information to corroborate Banks' getting on a Megabus.

Court documents showed that in June, Ricks was at an Alabama jail in federal custody after his arrest in March under an alias, Robert Quran Hick. He was accused of using an airline ticket in someone else's name and flying from Atlanta to Birmingham, Alabama, then getting two other boarding passes in someone else's name to fly to two other destinations.

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Detroit — The suspension and arrest last month of a Detroit Police homicide sergeant who was caught wearing an unknown corpse's watch set off a chain of events that led to the slain man's identification and a capture of the suspect — the victim's son-in-law.

Detroit police investigators in March found the badly decomposed remains of a body behind an abandoned school on the city's northwest side, Detroit Police Sgt. Michael Woody said.

The man, who had suffered multiple stab wounds, wore an expensive, German-made watch. The case was originally assigned to homicide Sgt. Alex Vinson, who was unable to identify the victim. The homicide was put into the cold case file.

In October, investigators decided to re-open the case, thinking his watch might provide a clue to his identity — but the watch they found in the Homicide Section property room was a cheap model that didn't match the one that had been photographed when the body was first recovered.

Police officials were informed about the discrepancy, and an internal investigation was launched, which led to Vinson, Woody said.

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Ricks, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to using false identity documents, was sentenced by Bowdre to time-served during Friday's hearing...

Ricks, however, won't be released because of a Detroit police detainer and arrest warrant for murder against him for the death of his father-in-law, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Holt.

Stewart Banks Jr., 56, who worked as a clerk in Baltimore's public defender office, had been reported missing in 2014, according to The Detroit News. He was last seen leaving home with his son-in-law, Ricks, on Feb. 21, 2014, Holt said.

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