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Two Brothers Sentenced for Role in Home Invasion

By Greg Bebermeyer

01/29/2016

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Westley Banks

Tyler Banks

(KNZA)-- Two brothers have been sentenced for their role in a home invasion last April on the Kickapoo Reservation.

Brown County Attorney Kevin Hill says 35-year-old Westley " Sag Tuk" Banks was sentenced Friday in Brown County District Court nearly 11 years in prison ( 130 months) on charges of aggravated robbery, aggravated battery and aggravated burglary.

Hill says the sentence was handed down before a packed courtroom which included members of the Kickapoo Tribal Council, the victim and his family. Banks was a member of the Tribal Council at the time of his arrest.

His brother, 32-year-old Tyler “ Tiger” Banks, was sentenced Monday to more than 9 years in prison ( 112 months) on charges of aggravated robbery, aggravated assault and criminal threat.

Both men pleaded “ no contest” to the charges January 5th, canceling jury trials that had been set in their cases.

A third defendant, 22-year-old Andrew Darnell, is scheduled to sentenced March 28th on three felony counts.   Darnell pleaded no contest in December to charges of robbery, aggravated burglary and aggravated assault in the case.