Height – 6’5”
Weight – 230 – 250 pounds
Hair Color – black
Eye Color – blue
Location of Birth – Sarasota, Florida
Current Address – No Permanent Physical Location.  Divides time between Texas and Florida
Biological Father – John Docks
Biological Mother – Diane Docks
Biological Siblings/ Family Members – Brian Colcort – Cousin, L. Bays - Uncle
Occupation –Conman
Employer – The Company
Tattoos, Body Piercing and Body Modifications - None


Benton Docks was born in 1974 in Sarasota, Florida to Diane and John Docks.  He was immediately integrated into the family business.  By the time he was six, he was trading toy guns and fake drugs for lunch money, which earned him more time in the principal’s office than in the classroom.  When he started telling fake hardship stories to his classmates in an effort to get more money, his parents decided homeschooling would be best for him.  However, they also recognized that he had a gift for convincing anyone of anything. 

By the time he was 10, his parents and his uncle were convinced he could sell ice to Eskimos and fish to fisherman and make money at it.  Rather than funneling them into their drug and weapons trade, they opened a new department at The Company – grifting.  Benton was a millionaire by the time he was 16.

Unfortunately, he had a reason for earning all that money.  His adopted cousin, Avia, was a raging drug addict and not nearly as financially well-off as he was.  To keep her off the streets, he supplied most of her money, but her addictions were taxing, even on his finances, and his scams took him away from her for long periods of time.

At the same time, he was starting to rack up the criminal charges.  In 1989, he was arrested for driving without a licensed adult in the car.  In 1990, the SPD got him again on possession of marijuana.  In 1991, he was arrested for possession with intent to sell.  In reality, he had Avia’s heroin on him, but he took the blame for it.  In 1992, he was arrested for extortion.  In 1993, he was arrested with Avia for solicitation of a prostitute.  In 1994, he was slammed face down on the sidewalk for extortion and weapons and drug trafficking.  If L hadn’t taken steps to have the case declared as a mistrial, Benton would have spent decades in prison.

Under threat from his uncle, Benton was forced to clean himself up.  In 1995, much to Avia’s disapproval, he married Stephanie Jones.  She was a long-term family friend, and it was a loveless marriage.  In 1999, Benton shot her in the back of the head after a heated argument where he was accused of having an affair and betrayal of The Company.
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He spent three years in prison for manslaughter and was released in 2003.  While he was in prison, he had Avia sent to rehab.  In 2005, Benton is back to his old ways.  Stealing money from rich women, extortion and part time weapons and drug runner.

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AVIA ii: Bullets and Betrayal Kindle Edition

Greg Locke is the detective who thinks he can put away both Avia and Benton in the next book in the series Avia II Bullets and Betrayal. These two are very close to going to jail or going on vacation to Hawaii when their heist goes bad. They are stuck in a life of crime, and they cannot seem to get out. Thriller author Stacey Carroll tugs you through all the twists and turns of these two and their lives while showing you that crime can pay in the worst ways.

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