Formal arraignment is scheduled Friday for a 24-year-old St Joseph man accused of deviate sexual intercourse with a 10-year-old boy.

A charge of Sodomy in the first Degree, Deviate Sexual Intercourse with a person under 14 was filed Wednesday against Patrick Daniel Banks of St.Joseph.

Bond was originally set at $35,000, but on Thursday, a judge denied bond.

 

Commander Jim Connors of the St Joseph Police Department says in a news release that the victim and his mother moved from St Joseph to Vermont, where they contacted the Vermont Highway Patrol. Connors says the investigation required coordination and cooperation between the Crittenden Unit for Special Investigations in Burlington, Vermont and the St. Joseph Police Family Crimes Unit.

The incident is alleged to have occurred in St. Joseph between January 2010 and February 2012.

Connors says the investigation into this case began in late July when the St.Joseph Police Department was contacted by the Missouri State Highway Patrol who was following up on a contact they had from the Vermont Highway Patrol.