JACKSON COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating two suspects&nbsp;following a weekend pursuit

Just before 2a.m. Nov. 13, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office was notified that the PBPN Police were in pursuit with a vehicle near 174th and L. Road, according to Sheriff Tim Morse.

The black Saturn approached K-16 Highway, headed east into Holton and east on K-116 Highway. A Jackson County Deputy deployed a tire deflation device which eventually disabled the Saturn in the 14000 block of K-116 Highway.

Deputies placed two of the four occupants under arrest. The driver, Dustin Dean Benton, 45, of Meriden was arrested on requested charges that include possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, felony flee and eluding and traffic charges.

 A passenger, Kristina Marie Arb, 56, Olathe is jailed on requested charges that include possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.  The Holton Police Department assisted with the capture of these suspects.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636907829369.png" alt="Benton photo Jackson Co." />
 <figcaption>Benton photo Jackson Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>JACKSON COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating two suspects&nbsp;following a weekend pursuitJust before 2a.m. Nov. 13, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office was notified that the PBPN Police were in pursuit with a vehicle near 174th and L. Road, according to Sheriff Tim Morse.The black Saturn approached K-16 Highway, headed east into Holton and east on K-116 Highway. A Jackson County Deputy deployed a tire deflation device which eventually disabled the Saturn in the 14000 block of K-116 Highway.Deputies placed two of the four occupants under arrest. The driver, Dustin Dean Benton, 45, of Meriden was arrested on requested charges that include possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, felony flee and eluding and traffic charges.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636907804055.png" alt="Arb-photo Jackson Co." />
 <figcaption>Arb-photo Jackson Co.</figcaption>
 </figure> A passenger, Kristina Marie Arb, 56, Olathe is jailed on requested charges that include possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. The Holton Police Department assisted with the capture of these suspects.

Kan. deputies capture drug suspects after high-speed chase

By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY Salina Post

SALINE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansa felon on new charges after a Sunday incident in Salina.

 man was arrested on requested charges of arson and obstruction in connection to an incident late Sunday night involving a police patrol vehicle and ornamental grass.

Just after 11:30p.m. Sunday, a police officer was sitting in the parking lot of the Saline County Sheriff's Mounted Patrol and Rescue Squad facility, 1020 W. North Street, near the 400 block of N. Broadway Boulevard in Salina, according to&nbsp;Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester .

The officer heard several loud explosions and something hit the patrol vehicle. The officer determined that the explosions were from mortar-type fireworks. After the third explosion, ornamental grass on the property caught on fire, Forrester said.

The officer pulled out of the parking lot and saw a person, identified as Christopher Mostue, 40, of Salina, walking away from the location. A witness also reported seeing Mostue walking away from the location.

When the officer made contact with the suspect,&nbsp; Mostue allegedly attempted to walk away, but was taken into custody and later arrested him on requested charges of arson and obstruction, according to Forrester. The ornamental grass was valued at $50.&nbsp;

Mosture was on community corrections and has previous convictions for criminal trespass, aggravated battery, giving a worthless check, no proof of vehicle insurance, and three for drugs, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636987127933.jpeg" alt="Christopher Mostue has previous convictions for criminal trespass, aggravated battery, giving a worthless check, no proof of vehicle insurance, and three for drugs, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections-Photo Saline County" />
 <figcaption>Christopher Mostue has previous convictions for criminal trespass, aggravated battery, giving a worthless check, no proof of vehicle insurance, and three for drugs, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections-Photo Saline County</figcaption>
 </figure>By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY Salina PostSALINE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansa felon on new charges after a Sunday incident in Salina. man was arrested on requested charges of arson and obstruction in connection to an incident late Sunday night involving a police patrol vehicle and ornamental grass.Just after 11:30p.m. Sunday, a police officer was sitting in the parking lot of the Saline County Sheriff's Mounted Patrol and Rescue Squad facility, 1020 W. North Street, near the 400 block of N. Broadway Boulevard in Salina, according to&nbsp;Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester .The officer heard several loud explosions and something hit the patrol vehicle. The officer determined that the explosions were from mortar-type fireworks. After the third explosion, ornamental grass on the property caught on fire, Forrester said.The officer pulled out of the parking lot and saw a person, identified as Christopher Mostue, 40, of Salina, walking away from the location. A witness also reported seeing Mostue walking away from the location.When the officer made contact with the suspect,&nbsp; Mostue allegedly attempted to walk away, but was taken into custody and later arrested him on requested charges of arson and obstruction, according to Forrester. The ornamental grass was valued at $50.&nbsp;Mosture was on community corrections and has previous convictions for criminal trespass, aggravated battery, giving a worthless check, no proof of vehicle insurance, and three for drugs, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections.

Fireworks hitting police vehicle put Kan. felon back in jail

SEDGWICK COUNTY—A Kansas man jailed after a fatal head-on crash made his first court appearance in the case Friday.

Jose Rios-Cruz Jr, 40 of Wichita, is charged with involuntary manslaughter, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and manslaughter after a head-on collision that killed a 19-year-old from Caldwell.

Just before 3a.m. Nov. 6, a GMC Sierra pickup driven by 39-year-old Jose Rios-Cruz was westbound in the eastbound lanes of Kansas Highway 254 in northeast Sedgwick County, according to Sheriff's Lt.&nbsp;Benjamin Blick.

The pickup collided with a Chrysler PT Cruiser driven by 19-year-old Clayton Patterson of Caldwell. Patterson died after the collision. 

&nbsp;Rios-Cruz, 39, is being on a $500,000 bond and is due back in court on November 22, according to the district attorney's office.

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 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/9/1632692731413.png" alt="Rios-Cruz-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Rios-Cruz-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>SEDGWICK COUNTY—A Kansas man jailed after a fatal head-on crash made his first court appearance in the case Friday.Jose Rios-Cruz Jr, 40 of Wichita, is charged with involuntary manslaughter, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office.WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and manslaughter after a head-on collision that killed a 19-year-old from Caldwell.Just before 3a.m. Nov. 6, a GMC Sierra pickup driven by 39-year-old Jose Rios-Cruz was westbound in the eastbound lanes of Kansas Highway 254 in northeast Sedgwick County, according to Sheriff's Lt.&nbsp;Benjamin Blick.The pickup collided with a Chrysler PT Cruiser driven by 19-year-old Clayton Patterson of Caldwell. Patterson died after the collision. &nbsp;Rios-Cruz, 39, is being on a $500,000 bond and is due back in court on November 22, according to the district attorney's office.

Kansas man charged in fatal wrong-way, head-on crash

TOPEKA —Law enforcement authorities continue investigating the death of a one-year old boy and have not made an arrest in the case, according to Topeka Police Department spokesperson Gretchen Spiker.

Just after 11 a.m. Tuesday, police responded to a medical call involving an unresponsive child the 2400 block of SW 10th Avenue in Topeka, according to Spiker.

The Topeka Fire Department and American Medical Response also responded to the scene. Life-saving measures were attempted at the scene. AMR transported the child to a local hospital, where the child was later pronounced deceased by medical personnel.

Authorities are awaiting the Coroner’s Report which will determine cause of death, according to Spiker.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636496999939.png" alt="Police on the scene of the death investigation -photo courtesy WIBW TV" />
 <figcaption>Police on the scene of the death investigation -photo courtesy WIBW TV</figcaption>
 </figure>TOPEKA —Law enforcement authorities continue investigating the death of a one-year old boy and have not made an arrest in the case, according to Topeka Police Department spokesperson Gretchen Spiker.Just after 11 a.m. Tuesday, police responded to a medical call involving an unresponsive child the 2400 block of SW 10th Avenue in Topeka, according to Spiker.The Topeka Fire Department and American Medical Response also responded to the scene. Life-saving measures were attempted at the scene. AMR transported the child to a local hospital, where the child was later pronounced deceased by medical personnel.Authorities are awaiting the Coroner’s Report which will determine cause of death, according to Spiker.

Police await coroner's report in death of 1-year-old Kansas boy

SEDGWICK COUNTY—A judge sentenced a Kansas man to almost ten years in prison this week for sex crimes involving a 9-year-old girl.

In June, 33-year-old Andrion Ashley plead no contest to lewd and lascivious behavior, aggravated battery and criminal threat, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office. The judge also ordered&nbsp; Ashley to register as a sex offender.

In January of 2018, police arrested Ashley for rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child, criminal threat, child abuse, aggravated battery and kidnapping, according to online jail records.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636737282850.png" alt="Ashley-photo KBI offender registry" />
 <figcaption>Ashley-photo KBI offender registry</figcaption>
 </figure>SEDGWICK COUNTY—A judge sentenced a Kansas man to almost ten years in prison this week for sex crimes involving a 9-year-old girl.In June, 33-year-old Andrion Ashley plead no contest to lewd and lascivious behavior, aggravated battery and criminal threat, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office. The judge also ordered&nbsp; Ashley to register as a sex offender.In January of 2018, police arrested Ashley for rape, aggravated indecent liberties with a child, criminal threat, child abuse, aggravated battery and kidnapping, according to online jail records.

Kansas man sentenced for sex crimes involving 9-year-old

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The mayor of a Wichita suburb was arrested Saturday on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. A report released by the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office Sunday shows that Goddard Mayor Hunter Larkin was arrested by the Kansas Highway Patrol Saturday near the intersection of Tyler Road and Kellogg Drive in Wichita.&nbsp; 

No other details about the 22-year-old’s arrest were immediately available Sunday. 

Larkin did not immediately respond to phone and email messages from the newspaper. Larkin was appointed Goddard mayor in August 2020. He had previously served as president of the Goddard City Council.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636933203245.png" alt="Larkin-photo Sedgwick County" />
 <figcaption>Larkin-photo Sedgwick County</figcaption>
 </figure>WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The mayor of a Wichita suburb was arrested Saturday on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. A report released by the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office Sunday shows that Goddard Mayor Hunter Larkin was arrested by the Kansas Highway Patrol Saturday near the intersection of Tyler Road and Kellogg Drive in Wichita.&nbsp; No other details about the 22-year-old’s arrest were immediately available Sunday. Larkin did not immediately respond to phone and email messages from the newspaper. Larkin was appointed Goddard mayor in August 2020. He had previously served as president of the Goddard City Council.

Mayor of Kansas community arrested on suspicion of DUI

By STEVE VOCKRODT and PEGGY LOWE <a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-11-09/fbi-has-investigated-kansas-city-kansas-police-for-decades-but-prosecution-of-bad-cops-is-rare">Kansas News Service</a>

The FBI agent was unsparing — and pessimistic — in an assessment of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department.

KCKPD
 officers routinely violated the civil rights of those they were sworn 
to protect. They severely beat people in the city jail. They were 
alleged to have been dealing illegal drugs and committing robberies. And
 they ignored the crack cocaine epidemic in Wyandotte County.

“The
 problem is as bad as it is because of corruption within the police 
department and general investigative incompetence,” the FBI agent wrote.

Those
 findings were memorialized in a memo dated Dec. 18, 1992, by a special 
agent of the FBI, whose name was redacted, as part of an investigation 
into corruption within KCKPD that went under the code name “Operation 
Street Smart.”

The memo was obtained through a Freedom of 
Information Act request to the FBI for records of its past 
investigations into the KCKPD.

Nearly 30 years later, <a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-10-14/kansas-city-kansas-police-open-museum-even-as-news-surfaces-of-federal-probe-into-former-detective" target="_blank">the department is making headlines</a>
 with reports of a federal investigation into alleged corruption. Former
 KCKPD detective Roger Golubski is accused in a civil case of 
systematically preying on Black women to satisfy his sexual proclivities
 or to fabricate evidence to clear cases. He is also accused of 
protecting drug dealers.

The news reports marked a rare public disclosure of a federal probe into some aspect of the KCKPD.

But
 as records obtained from the FOIA request show, the FBI has known 
corruption within KCKPD “has existed for decades.” And the agency 
appeared to have been frustrated at times by a lack of resources and 
inertia from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Kansas in responding to FBI 
discoveries about the department.

“The situation did not develop 
overnight, and it will not be solved overnight,” the memo reads. “The 
FBI has never convicted any KCKPD officer of any crime. Until this 
office does convict several police officers and hopefully gain the 
cooperation of some of these police officers, the situation in Kansas 
City, Kansas, will only deteriorate.”

Shown the documents, KCKPD 
spokesperson Nancy Chartrand said there are only 12 officers currently 
at the department who were employed there in 1992, half of them new 
recruits that year. The others had been working for the department for 
fewer than four years by 1992.

“That being said, it is impossible to validate nor negate the findings of that period in 1992,” Chartrand said in an email.

Asked
 if the depiction of the KCKPD in the FBI records reflects the 
department as it exists today, Chartrand said it does not. She cited 
several national developments that have triggered long-term police 
reforms, such as the beating of Rodney King in 1991, the use of DNA in 
forensic investigations and the growing use of dashboard and body-worn 
cameras.

“Simply stated, policing in our country has changed significantly over the past 29 years,” she said.

The
 FBI’s investigation of the KCKPD during the early 1990s turned up 
several incidents of alleged excessive force and brutality by police 
officers.

One memo from 1993 to FBI headquarters said there were 
200 officers accused of misconduct. Some had one complaint of excessive 
force against them. Others had between eight and 17 excessive force 
complaints over a three-year period.

The Kansas City FBI office 
and the U.S. Attorney identified 18 officers who made up the “core 
group” due to the numerous amounts of excessive force and conduct 
complaints against them. All the names were redacted from the records. 
In order to investigate the allegations, the FBI estimated it would take
 at least four agents working full time for the “next 6 to 12 months or 
longer.”

“The KCKPD does not investigate civil rights violations 
against its officers anymore than it investigates allegations of drug 
dealing or robberies committed by officers,” the report said. “It should
 be emphasized that the formal complaints made by citizens concerning 
violations of their civil rights is only the tip of the iceberg.”

Chester
 Owens, the first African American city councilman in Kansas City, 
Kansas, when he was elected in 1983, said he’s been fighting police 
brutality for decades. He believes the majority of officers are good, 
but there are still bullies who often pick up racist behavior as part of
 officer training.

“I think the difference of then and now (is) 
back then, some of them just took it on their own to do stuff,” Owens 
said. “But now they’ve put it in form and trained them.”

One 
incident from a memo dated April 22, 1993, described a disturbance near 
7th and Troup streets in northeast Kansas City, Kansas. (The date it 
occurred is unclear; the FBI records redacted names, dates and other 
details of the incidents it recounted.)

The memo said several 
young people accused an officer of stepping on the back of an unnamed 
person, kicking a person in the ribs, using profanity and epithets 
including the n-word and striking a person on the head with a gun. The 
summary of the incident said no significant injury resulted.

“The 
police officer is white, and remarks were made which could indicate a 
lack of sensitivity on the officer’s part to the black children,” the 
memo stated. “If it is determined that this matter should be 
investigated, at least 25 interviews will be required.”

A 
description of a similar incident was detailed in a written complaint by
 the NAACP legal department. The letter, according to FBI records, said 
that a group of 16 Black children between the ages of 7 and 16 were 
walking to a relative’s house on a rainy day when six white officers 
stopped them.

The officers searched the children and ordered them to the ground; some of them were lying in mud.

“When
 one of the older cousins questioned why the police were doing this and 
asked what they had done wrong, one of the officers proceeded to hit him
 with his gun and repeatedly kick him with his shoes,” the FBI summary 
of the NAACP’s complaint said. “Another cousin was then thrown over the 
fence by another officer, and the officer proceeded to beat him.”

One
 of the officers whose name is redacted from the report admitted to 
being at the scene but denied hitting or kicking any of the kids. The 
incident resulted in the officer receiving a “counseling form” that said
 the officer could have allowed the children to get out of the rain 
sooner once he found out there were no weapons.

“Officer [name 
redacted] was told that in the near future, in inclement weather such as
 this, he should use a little more tact in handling this type of a 
call,” the FBI record said.

A 1993 FBI memo said many people who 
filed complaints against the KCKPD did not follow up, which the FBI 
concluded was probably because they didn't believe anything would be 
done and they feared they may not be seen as credible witnesses. The 
memo also said there was strong cohesiveness among police officers and 
it would be difficult to find an officer who would testify against 
another officer. The FBI also thought many of the complaints reflected 
proper police protocol.

In an interview with KCUR nearly two years
 ago, FBI agent Al Jennerich, who investigated the KCKPD during the 
1990s, backed up the FBI records.

To investigate that many 
officers in a small department was unusual, Jennerich said, adding that 
he was shocked at some of the KCKPD procedures, including the 
destruction of internal affairs reports after just three years.

“Now
 why would you do that? The only reason you do that would be to protect 
dirty cops or cops that are behaving improperly,” he said.

Jennerich recalled that a couple of officers were indicted. 

An
 officer who faced charges was Edward Dryden. He was among several 
defendants charged in 1993 with a conspiracy to distribute crack 
cocaine.

Dryden, then a 25-year veteran of the police department, 
was accused of being involved in the drug operation and of tipping off 
other defendants of impending arrests against them.

Dryden, a Black man who died in 2019, was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

In
 another case, in 1994, a KCKPD officer was indicted by a federal grand 
jury less than a month after FBI agents arrested him for possessing and 
intending to distribute illegal steroids, according to an article in the
 Kansas City Kansan newspaper.

But the U.S. Attorney’s office in 
Kansas wasn’t interested in pursuing such cases after then assistant 
U.S. Attorney Julie Robinson, who had championed the FBI’s work, left 
the office, he said. Robinson was appointed a federal bankruptcy judge 
in 1996 and is now a U.S. District judge in Kansas City, Kansas. 

A
 standing monthly subpoena for KCKPD’s internal affairs reports was 
lifted after Robinson left the U.S. Attorney's office and KCKPD 
complained, Jennerich said.

“When Julie Robinson left, the cops 
over there, management, they saw that … it was a crack in the door and 
they decided they were going to go through that door basically to 
complain about the FBI investigating,” Jennerich said. “So no more 
subpoenas.”

Without the grand jury subpoenas, there could be no 
investigation, he said. Ultimately, the FBI also lost interest in the 
corruption cases, Jennerich said.

“The FBI does not want these cases,” he said. “It’s just a big headache for them politically.”

But at least one FBI agent was pushing for prosecutions of KCKPD officers in 1992.

“A
 more aggressive approach by this office in identifying and prosecuting 
police officers who routinely violate individuals’ civil rights would 
benefit this overall investigation,” the unnamed FBI agent wrote, 
“because the investigation to date has shown that many of the same 
officers involved in corruption are also involved in civil rights 
violations.”

Golubski and Lamonte McIntyre's exoneration 

An
 FBI memo from 1993 noted that a source for the agency had said some 
KCKPD officers would steal money and drugs from people they stopped in 
the streets.

Similar behavior landed KCKPD in the headlines in 
2011 when members of a tactical squad were arrested and charged with 
stealing cash and electronics from residences where they were executing 
search warrants.

But public scrutiny of the department would not 
become widespread until the exoneration in 2017 of Lamonte McIntyre, a 
Black man in KCK who was convicted of a double-homicide in 1994.

Roger Golubski was one of the detectives who investigated McIntyre’s case.

After
 lengthy court proceedings, the Wyandotte County District Attorney in 
2017 declared that a “manifest injustice” had occurred in McIntyre’s 
case, setting him free after 23 years behind bars for a crime he did not
 commit.

Since then, Golubski has been the main focus of a civil 
rights lawsuit filed by McIntyre and his mother against KCKPD officers 
and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas.

The
 lawsuit portrays Golubski as a crooked cop who took advantage of Black 
women in the poorest sections of KCK. He exploited Black women, some of 
whom were addicted to drugs and others who were sex workers, for sexual 
favors or to compromise them into fabricating testimony to help him 
clear cases he investigated, according to the lawsuit.

In court filings, Golubski has denied the allegations. In a deposition, he<a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-01-03/accused-of-coercing-women-into-sex-and-lies-to-solve-cases-ex-kck-cop-takes-the-fifth" target="_blank"> refused to address more than 500 questions</a> posed to him by McIntyre’s legal team, citing his constitutional right against self-incrimination.

It’s
 not clear what aspects of Golubski’s alleged behavior have attracted 
the focus of the grand jury’s investigation. A CNN report, citing former
 KCKPD chief Terry Zeigler, said the grand jury issued subpoenas for 
about a dozen case files from the police department. Both KCKPD and the 
Unified Government have confirmed they received federal subpoenas.

The
 NPR Midwest Newsroom and KCUR filed a Kansas Open Records Act request 
for the subpoenas, which remains pending. Previous KORA requests for 
grand jury subpoenas were denied by the Unified Government on the 
grounds they were investigative records. But the UG has since publicly 
acknowledged the existence of the investigation.

Since the civil 
rights lawsuit was filed in 2019, McIntyre’s legal team has gone further
 to examine Golubski’s behavior as a KCKPD detective. Earlier this year,
 McIntyre’s lawyers went to a magistrate judge and demanded an order 
that the Unified Government turn over several sets of records.

Among
 the records they sought were investigative files about 18 women 
Golubski allegedly sexually exploited and used as informants. They also 
sought records of the investigations carried out by KCKPD into the 
murders of women Golubski had used as informants.

“A dozen or more
 of Golubski’s female victims and/or informants have been murdered,” 
reads a footnote in a filing by McIntyre’s lawyers. “With only a couple 
of exceptions, these murders remain unsolved. In some instances, 
Golubski was a primary investigator in the case, despite his past 
relationship with the informant.”

McIntyre’s lawyers also want 
KCKPD files related to drug dealers and gang leaders who had connections
 to Golubski. The lawyers said the records are necessary to establish 
KCKPD’s tolerance of misconduct by its officers.

The magistrate 
judge found most of the arguments by McIntyre’s lawyers persuasive and 
ordered the Unified Government to make the records available.

Social
 justice leaders in Kansas City, Kansas, applauded the Oct. 14 news of 
the federal grand jury probe into Golubski’s alleged crimes.

But they are also calling for a larger investigation by the U.S. 
Department of Justice into “systemic patterns and practices that have 
violated the civil rights of communities of color in Kansas City, 
Kansas.”

“For far too long the injustice perpetrated and covered up by the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department have gone ignored,” <a href="https://more2.org/DOJinKCK/" target="_blank">reads the online petition</a> championed by MORE², a KCK social justice group.

Long
 quiet, victims’ families are now speaking up. Kendra Wright attended a 
MORE² rally on Oct. 25 in front of Kansas City, Kansas, City Hall. 
Wright is the niece of Rose Calvin, a woman with whom Golubski had ties 
and whose 1996 homicide remains unsolved.

“This man nearly destroyed us but we are strong and we are here,” Wright said.

Still, Wright said her family is hopeful.

“We are going to get justice,” she said. “We’re hoping that it’s going to be soon.”

Karl
 Oakman, a former deputy chief of the Kansas City, Missouri, Police 
Department, inherited the Golubski fallout when he became police chief 
in June.

Oakman recently said he plans to open a cold case unit in
 January, although said that Kansas City, Kansas, is not the only place 
that had a high number of unsolved homicides of women during the period 
in question. There were a large number of unsolved cases from the 1980s 
and1990s because of the nationwide crack cocaine epidemic, he said.

Still, Oakman said the cold case team will consist of three people who will look at the cases of the murdered women.

“We'll
 prioritize which cases that, for instance, if there's DNA evidence in 
this case, and there's not any in this case, what we're going to try to 
do is go with the case with the DNA and try to get, see if we can get a 
profile and maybe solve that case,” he said.

This story is part
 of a collaboration between KCUR and the Midwest Newsroom, an 
investigative journalism initiative including KCUR, <a href="https://www.iowapublicradio.org/" target="_blank">IPR</a>, <a href="https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/" target="_blank">Nebraska Public Media News</a>, <a href="https://news.stlpublicradio.org/" target="_blank">St. Louis Public Radio</a> and <a href="https://www.npr.org/" target="_blank">NPR</a>.&nbsp;

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636562531712.png" alt="Former KCKPD detective Roger Golubski is accused in a civil case of systematically preying on Black women to satisfy his sexual proclivities or to fabricate evidence to clear cases. He is also accused of protecting drug dealers. Photo Illustration-Carlos Moreno and Peggy Lowe / KCUR 89.3" />
 <figcaption>Former KCKPD detective Roger Golubski is accused in a civil case of systematically preying on Black women to satisfy his sexual proclivities or to fabricate evidence to clear cases. He is also accused of protecting drug dealers. Photo Illustration-Carlos Moreno and Peggy Lowe / KCUR 89.3</figcaption>
 </figure>By STEVE VOCKRODT and PEGGY LOWE <a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-11-09/fbi-has-investigated-kansas-city-kansas-police-for-decades-but-prosecution-of-bad-cops-is-rare">Kansas News Service</a>The FBI agent was unsparing — and pessimistic — in an assessment of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department.KCKPD
 officers routinely violated the civil rights of those they were sworn 
to protect. They severely beat people in the city jail. They were 
alleged to have been dealing illegal drugs and committing robberies. And
 they ignored the crack cocaine epidemic in Wyandotte County.“The
 problem is as bad as it is because of corruption within the police 
department and general investigative incompetence,” the FBI agent wrote.Those
 findings were memorialized in a memo dated Dec. 18, 1992, by a special 
agent of the FBI, whose name was redacted, as part of an investigation 
into corruption within KCKPD that went under the code name “Operation 
Street Smart.”The memo was obtained through a Freedom of 
Information Act request to the FBI for records of its past 
investigations into the KCKPD.Nearly 30 years later, <a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-10-14/kansas-city-kansas-police-open-museum-even-as-news-surfaces-of-federal-probe-into-former-detective" target="_blank">the department is making headlines</a>
 with reports of a federal investigation into alleged corruption. Former
 KCKPD detective Roger Golubski is accused in a civil case of 
systematically preying on Black women to satisfy his sexual proclivities
 or to fabricate evidence to clear cases. He is also accused of 
protecting drug dealers.The news reports marked a rare public disclosure of a federal probe into some aspect of the KCKPD.But
 as records obtained from the FOIA request show, the FBI has known 
corruption within KCKPD “has existed for decades.” And the agency 
appeared to have been frustrated at times by a lack of resources and 
inertia from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Kansas in responding to FBI 
discoveries about the department.“The situation did not develop 
overnight, and it will not be solved overnight,” the memo reads. “The 
FBI has never convicted any KCKPD officer of any crime. Until this 
office does convict several police officers and hopefully gain the 
cooperation of some of these police officers, the situation in Kansas 
City, Kansas, will only deteriorate.”Shown the documents, KCKPD 
spokesperson Nancy Chartrand said there are only 12 officers currently 
at the department who were employed there in 1992, half of them new 
recruits that year. The others had been working for the department for 
fewer than four years by 1992.“That being said, it is impossible to validate nor negate the findings of that period in 1992,” Chartrand said in an email.Asked
 if the depiction of the KCKPD in the FBI records reflects the 
department as it exists today, Chartrand said it does not. She cited 
several national developments that have triggered long-term police 
reforms, such as the beating of Rodney King in 1991, the use of DNA in 
forensic investigations and the growing use of dashboard and body-worn 
cameras.“Simply stated, policing in our country has changed significantly over the past 29 years,” she said.<h2>200 officers accused of misconduct</h2>The
 FBI’s investigation of the KCKPD during the early 1990s turned up 
several incidents of alleged excessive force and brutality by police 
officers.One memo from 1993 to FBI headquarters said there were 
200 officers accused of misconduct. Some had one complaint of excessive 
force against them. Others had between eight and 17 excessive force 
complaints over a three-year period.The Kansas City FBI office 
and the U.S. Attorney identified 18 officers who made up the “core 
group” due to the numerous amounts of excessive force and conduct 
complaints against them. All the names were redacted from the records. 
In order to investigate the allegations, the FBI estimated it would take
 at least four agents working full time for the “next 6 to 12 months or 
longer.”“The KCKPD does not investigate civil rights violations 
against its officers anymore than it investigates allegations of drug 
dealing or robberies committed by officers,” the report said. “It should
 be emphasized that the formal complaints made by citizens concerning 
violations of their civil rights is only the tip of the iceberg.”Chester
 Owens, the first African American city councilman in Kansas City, 
Kansas, when he was elected in 1983, said he’s been fighting police 
brutality for decades. He believes the majority of officers are good, 
but there are still bullies who often pick up racist behavior as part of
 officer training.“I think the difference of then and now (is) 
back then, some of them just took it on their own to do stuff,” Owens 
said. “But now they’ve put it in form and trained them.”One 
incident from a memo dated April 22, 1993, described a disturbance near 
7th and Troup streets in northeast Kansas City, Kansas. (The date it 
occurred is unclear; the FBI records redacted names, dates and other 
details of the incidents it recounted.)The memo said several 
young people accused an officer of stepping on the back of an unnamed 
person, kicking a person in the ribs, using profanity and epithets 
including the n-word and striking a person on the head with a gun. The 
summary of the incident said no significant injury resulted.“The 
police officer is white, and remarks were made which could indicate a 
lack of sensitivity on the officer’s part to the black children,” the 
memo stated. “If it is determined that this matter should be 
investigated, at least 25 interviews will be required.”A 
description of a similar incident was detailed in a written complaint by
 the NAACP legal department. The letter, according to FBI records, said 
that a group of 16 Black children between the ages of 7 and 16 were 
walking to a relative’s house on a rainy day when six white officers 
stopped them.The officers searched the children and ordered them to the ground; some of them were lying in mud.“When
 one of the older cousins questioned why the police were doing this and 
asked what they had done wrong, one of the officers proceeded to hit him
 with his gun and repeatedly kick him with his shoes,” the FBI summary 
of the NAACP’s complaint said. “Another cousin was then thrown over the 
fence by another officer, and the officer proceeded to beat him.”One
 of the officers whose name is redacted from the report admitted to 
being at the scene but denied hitting or kicking any of the kids. The 
incident resulted in the officer receiving a “counseling form” that said
 the officer could have allowed the children to get out of the rain 
sooner once he found out there were no weapons.“Officer [name 
redacted] was told that in the near future, in inclement weather such as
 this, he should use a little more tact in handling this type of a 
call,” the FBI record said.A 1993 FBI memo said many people who 
filed complaints against the KCKPD did not follow up, which the FBI 
concluded was probably because they didn't believe anything would be 
done and they feared they may not be seen as credible witnesses. The 
memo also said there was strong cohesiveness among police officers and 
it would be difficult to find an officer who would testify against 
another officer. The FBI also thought many of the complaints reflected 
proper police protocol.In an interview with KCUR nearly two years
 ago, FBI agent Al Jennerich, who investigated the KCKPD during the 
1990s, backed up the FBI records.To investigate that many 
officers in a small department was unusual, Jennerich said, adding that 
he was shocked at some of the KCKPD procedures, including the 
destruction of internal affairs reports after just three years.“Now
 why would you do that? The only reason you do that would be to protect 
dirty cops or cops that are behaving improperly,” he said.Jennerich recalled that a couple of officers were indicted. An
 officer who faced charges was Edward Dryden. He was among several 
defendants charged in 1993 with a conspiracy to distribute crack 
cocaine.Dryden, then a 25-year veteran of the police department, 
was accused of being involved in the drug operation and of tipping off 
other defendants of impending arrests against them.Dryden, a Black man who died in 2019, was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison.In
 another case, in 1994, a KCKPD officer was indicted by a federal grand 
jury less than a month after FBI agents arrested him for possessing and 
intending to distribute illegal steroids, according to an article in the
 Kansas City Kansan newspaper.But the U.S. Attorney’s office in 
Kansas wasn’t interested in pursuing such cases after then assistant 
U.S. Attorney Julie Robinson, who had championed the FBI’s work, left 
the office, he said. Robinson was appointed a federal bankruptcy judge 
in 1996 and is now a U.S. District judge in Kansas City, Kansas. A
 standing monthly subpoena for KCKPD’s internal affairs reports was 
lifted after Robinson left the U.S. Attorney's office and KCKPD 
complained, Jennerich said.“When Julie Robinson left, the cops 
over there, management, they saw that … it was a crack in the door and 
they decided they were going to go through that door basically to 
complain about the FBI investigating,” Jennerich said. “So no more 
subpoenas.”Without the grand jury subpoenas, there could be no 
investigation, he said. Ultimately, the FBI also lost interest in the 
corruption cases, Jennerich said.“The FBI does not want these cases,” he said. “It’s just a big headache for them politically.”But at least one FBI agent was pushing for prosecutions of KCKPD officers in 1992.“A
 more aggressive approach by this office in identifying and prosecuting 
police officers who routinely violate individuals’ civil rights would 
benefit this overall investigation,” the unnamed FBI agent wrote, 
“because the investigation to date has shown that many of the same 
officers involved in corruption are also involved in civil rights 
violations.”<h2>Golubski and Lamonte McIntyre's exoneration </h2>An
 FBI memo from 1993 noted that a source for the agency had said some 
KCKPD officers would steal money and drugs from people they stopped in 
the streets.Similar behavior landed KCKPD in the headlines in 
2011 when members of a tactical squad were arrested and charged with 
stealing cash and electronics from residences where they were executing 
search warrants.But public scrutiny of the department would not 
become widespread until the exoneration in 2017 of Lamonte McIntyre, a 
Black man in KCK who was convicted of a double-homicide in 1994.Roger Golubski was one of the detectives who investigated McIntyre’s case.After
 lengthy court proceedings, the Wyandotte County District Attorney in 
2017 declared that a “manifest injustice” had occurred in McIntyre’s 
case, setting him free after 23 years behind bars for a crime he did not
 commit.Since then, Golubski has been the main focus of a civil 
rights lawsuit filed by McIntyre and his mother against KCKPD officers 
and the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas.The
 lawsuit portrays Golubski as a crooked cop who took advantage of Black 
women in the poorest sections of KCK. He exploited Black women, some of 
whom were addicted to drugs and others who were sex workers, for sexual 
favors or to compromise them into fabricating testimony to help him 
clear cases he investigated, according to the lawsuit.In court filings, Golubski has denied the allegations. In a deposition, he<a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-01-03/accused-of-coercing-women-into-sex-and-lies-to-solve-cases-ex-kck-cop-takes-the-fifth" target="_blank"> refused to address more than 500 questions</a> posed to him by McIntyre’s legal team, citing his constitutional right against self-incrimination.It’s
 not clear what aspects of Golubski’s alleged behavior have attracted 
the focus of the grand jury’s investigation. A CNN report, citing former
 KCKPD chief Terry Zeigler, said the grand jury issued subpoenas for 
about a dozen case files from the police department. Both KCKPD and the 
Unified Government have confirmed they received federal subpoenas.The
 NPR Midwest Newsroom and KCUR filed a Kansas Open Records Act request 
for the subpoenas, which remains pending. Previous KORA requests for 
grand jury subpoenas were denied by the Unified Government on the 
grounds they were investigative records. But the UG has since publicly 
acknowledged the existence of the investigation.Since the civil 
rights lawsuit was filed in 2019, McIntyre’s legal team has gone further
 to examine Golubski’s behavior as a KCKPD detective. Earlier this year,
 McIntyre’s lawyers went to a magistrate judge and demanded an order 
that the Unified Government turn over several sets of records.Among
 the records they sought were investigative files about 18 women 
Golubski allegedly sexually exploited and used as informants. They also 
sought records of the investigations carried out by KCKPD into the 
murders of women Golubski had used as informants.“A dozen or more
 of Golubski’s female victims and/or informants have been murdered,” 
reads a footnote in a filing by McIntyre’s lawyers. “With only a couple 
of exceptions, these murders remain unsolved. In some instances, 
Golubski was a primary investigator in the case, despite his past 
relationship with the informant.”McIntyre’s lawyers also want 
KCKPD files related to drug dealers and gang leaders who had connections
 to Golubski. The lawyers said the records are necessary to establish 
KCKPD’s tolerance of misconduct by its officers.The magistrate 
judge found most of the arguments by McIntyre’s lawyers persuasive and 
ordered the Unified Government to make the records available.<h2>Activists call for bigger federal probe</h2>Social
 justice leaders in Kansas City, Kansas, applauded the Oct. 14 news of 
the federal grand jury probe into Golubski’s alleged crimes.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636562646193.png" alt="Ricee Cade of MORE², a social justice group, speaks during a rally before the Unified Government's office building on Oct. 25, 2021. MORE² is calling for an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. Peggy Lowe" />
 <figcaption>Ricee Cade of MORE², a social justice group, speaks during a rally before the Unified Government's office building on Oct. 25, 2021. MORE² is calling for an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. Peggy Lowe</figcaption>
 </figure>But they are also calling for a larger investigation by the U.S. 
Department of Justice into “systemic patterns and practices that have 
violated the civil rights of communities of color in Kansas City, 
Kansas.”“For far too long the injustice perpetrated and covered up by the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department have gone ignored,” <a href="https://more2.org/DOJinKCK/" target="_blank">reads the online petition</a> championed by MORE², a KCK social justice group.Long
 quiet, victims’ families are now speaking up. Kendra Wright attended a 
MORE² rally on Oct. 25 in front of Kansas City, Kansas, City Hall. 
Wright is the niece of Rose Calvin, a woman with whom Golubski had ties 
and whose 1996 homicide remains unsolved.“This man nearly destroyed us but we are strong and we are here,” Wright said.Still, Wright said her family is hopeful.“We are going to get justice,” she said. “We’re hoping that it’s going to be soon.”Karl
 Oakman, a former deputy chief of the Kansas City, Missouri, Police 
Department, inherited the Golubski fallout when he became police chief 
in June.Oakman recently said he plans to open a cold case unit in
 January, although said that Kansas City, Kansas, is not the only place 
that had a high number of unsolved homicides of women during the period 
in question. There were a large number of unsolved cases from the 1980s 
and1990s because of the nationwide crack cocaine epidemic, he said.Still, Oakman said the cold case team will consist of three people who will look at the cases of the murdered women.“We'll
 prioritize which cases that, for instance, if there's DNA evidence in 
this case, and there's not any in this case, what we're going to try to 
do is go with the case with the DNA and try to get, see if we can get a 
profile and maybe solve that case,” he said.This story is part
 of a collaboration between KCUR and the Midwest Newsroom, an 
investigative journalism initiative including KCUR, <a href="https://www.iowapublicradio.org/" target="_blank">IPR</a>, <a href="https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/" target="_blank">Nebraska Public Media News</a>, <a href="https://news.stlpublicradio.org/" target="_blank">St. Louis Public Radio</a> and <a href="https://www.npr.org/" target="_blank">NPR</a>.&nbsp;

FBI has investigated KCK police for decades, but prosecution of bad cops is rare

KANSAS CITY (AP) — A Kansas City woman who rejected a plea deal that would have freed her if she admitted that she killed her husband in 2012 has been sentenced to life in prison.

Clay County Judge Shane Alexander sentenced Viola Bowman on Wednesday for first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the fatal shooting of 53-year-old Albert “Rusty” Bowman, saying that the court is convinced of her guilt. She was&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-shootings-kansas-city-kansas-missouri-8a4609d41ed719723655eb12fa4a0fc6">convicted by a jury in September</a>.

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Robert Lee Sanders accused her of being a “cold, calculating manipulator.” She was accused of shooting her husband in the couple's home in November 2012 to collect a life insurance policy and then staging the scene to make it look like there had been a break-in.

But Viola Bowman has steadfastly maintained her innocence. Last year, she rejected a plea deal that would have given her credit for time served and allowed her to go free, but would have required her to admit guilt. She told a judge, ”I did not do this.”

In court Wednesday, she told the judge: “I did not murder my husband.” She then turned and addressed two of her daughters present in courtroom: “I’m sorry you lost your father. … I suffer every day without your father here.”

She said she found her husband shot when she returned from the store. But prosecutors noted that items like a laptop, car keys and a wallet were not stolen from the home. Officials also labeled her reaction to her husband’s death with first responders as “odd.”

She was not arrested for the killing until 2015, but has remained in jail since then while her case was delayed dozens of times.

Horton Lance, Bowman’s defense attorney, sought for the judge to order a new trial, saying the jury made “a tragic mistake” by convicting Bowman. That motion was rejected Wednesday.

Lance told The Star after court that he would be filing an appeal on Bowman’s behalf, saying “we hope to prove in the end that she truly is innocent.”

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636644232699.png" alt="Bowman photo Clay County" />
 <figcaption>Bowman photo Clay County</figcaption>
 </figure>KANSAS CITY (AP) — A Kansas City woman who rejected a plea deal that would have freed her if she admitted that she killed her husband in 2012 has been sentenced to life in prison.Clay County Judge Shane Alexander sentenced Viola Bowman on Wednesday for first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the fatal shooting of 53-year-old Albert “Rusty” Bowman, saying that the court is convinced of her guilt. She was&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-shootings-kansas-city-kansas-missouri-8a4609d41ed719723655eb12fa4a0fc6">convicted by a jury in September</a>.Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Robert Lee Sanders accused her of being a “cold, calculating manipulator.” She was accused of shooting her husband in the couple's home in November 2012 to collect a life insurance policy and then staging the scene to make it look like there had been a break-in.But Viola Bowman has steadfastly maintained her innocence. Last year, she rejected a plea deal that would have given her credit for time served and allowed her to go free, but would have required her to admit guilt. She told a judge, ”I did not do this.”In court Wednesday, she told the judge: “I did not murder my husband.” She then turned and addressed two of her daughters present in courtroom: “I’m sorry you lost your father. … I suffer every day without your father here.”She said she found her husband shot when she returned from the store. But prosecutors noted that items like a laptop, car keys and a wallet were not stolen from the home. Officials also labeled her reaction to her husband’s death with first responders as “odd.”She was not arrested for the killing until 2015, but has remained in jail since then while her case was delayed dozens of times.Horton Lance, Bowman’s defense attorney, sought for the judge to order a new trial, saying the jury made “a tragic mistake” by convicting Bowman. That motion was rejected Wednesday.Lance told The Star after court that he would be filing an appeal on Bowman’s behalf, saying “we hope to prove in the end that she truly is innocent.”

KC woman rejects plea deal, going to prison for husband's murder

SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities continue their effort to prevent prostitution in portions of Wichita and made more arrests this week.

On Wednesday, officers from North Community Policing, North Community Response Team, Vice, and the Broadway Corridor Team conducted a special assignment focused on individuals attempting to purchase sexual relations on North Broadway in Wichita, according to a media release from police.

 The special assignment resulted in 16 individuals being arrested for various sex trafficking charges including those pictured, according to the Sedgwick County booking report.

A total of 22 sex trafficking special assignments have been conducted in the Broadway corridor over the last four years and 201 individuals have been arrested for various sex trafficking charges during these assignments, according to Wichita police.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636721373435.png" alt="James Arnold-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>James Arnold-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities continue their effort to prevent prostitution in portions of Wichita and made more arrests this week.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636812493698.png" alt="Police arrested 20-year-old Hailee Klein on requested prostitution charges Thursday, according to the Sedgwick Co. booking report-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Police arrested 20-year-old Hailee Klein on requested prostitution charges Thursday, according to the Sedgwick Co. booking report-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>On Wednesday, officers from North Community Policing, North Community Response Team, Vice, and the Broadway Corridor Team conducted a special assignment focused on individuals attempting to purchase sexual relations on North Broadway in Wichita, according to a media release from police.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636721452382.png" alt="Jose Ayala-Gomez-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Jose Ayala-Gomez-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure> The special assignment resulted in 16 individuals being arrested for various sex trafficking charges including those pictured, according to the Sedgwick County booking report.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636721494983.png" alt="Todd Bauer-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Todd Bauer-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure><figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636721570280.png" alt="Jose Castillo-Amaya&nbsp;-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Jose Castillo-Amaya&nbsp;-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure><figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636721633079.png" alt="Mark Cordell-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Mark Cordell-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure><figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636721699413.png" alt="Gabriel Cajina-Vallejos&nbsp;-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Gabriel Cajina-Vallejos&nbsp;-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure><figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636721774762.png" alt="Ray Fleming-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Ray Fleming-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure><figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636721835096.png" alt="Alex Gonzalez&nbsp;-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Alex Gonzalez&nbsp;-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure><figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636722012214.png" alt="Tyler Jarvi-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Tyler Jarvi-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure><figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636722067580.png" alt="Robert McComb-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Robert McComb-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure><figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636722120828.png" alt="William Nguyen-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>William Nguyen-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure><figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636722169694.png" alt="Michael Peach-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Michael Peach-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure><figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636722221725.png" alt="Jeff Pribble-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Jeff Pribble-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure><figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636722299960.png" alt="Allyen Smith-photo Sedgwick Co." />
 <figcaption>Allyen Smith-photo Sedgwick Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>A total of 22 sex trafficking special assignments have been conducted in the Broadway corridor over the last four years and 201 individuals have been arrested for various sex trafficking charges during these assignments, according to Wichita police.

Over 200 arrested during 4-year Kan. prostitution investigation 

SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a violent attack on Saturday morning and have made an arrest.

Just after 9 am, police were called to the Capitol Plaza 1717 SW Topeka Blvd, where staff was reporting a disturbance involving a man "going after guests in the parking lot armed with a large machete," according to. Police Lt. Aaron Jones.

 The man identified as 59-year-old Norman Kelly had been banned from the hotel on a prior occasion. The area was congested due to the Stormont Vail Event Center hosting a capacity crowd attending the Blizzard Bash Demolition Derby just to the south.

When Officers arrived they found Kelly running onto SW 17th Street.

He is accused of committing several aggravated assaults on multiple law enforcement officers as he was brandishing two large knives. 

Officers used force to take Kelly into custody. No injuries were reported for anyone involved other than minor scrapes and bruising on Kelly.

He is being held in the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on requested charges of Criminal Trespass, Felony Obstruction and Aggravated Assault on a Law Enforcement Officer, according to Jones.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636827495920.png" alt="Kelly photo Shawnee Co." />
 <figcaption>Kelly photo Shawnee Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a violent attack on Saturday morning and have made an arrest.Just after 9 am, police were called to the Capitol Plaza 1717 SW Topeka Blvd, where staff was reporting a disturbance involving a man "going after guests in the parking lot armed with a large machete," according to. Police Lt. Aaron Jones. The man identified as 59-year-old Norman Kelly had been banned from the hotel on a prior occasion. The area was congested due to the Stormont Vail Event Center hosting a capacity crowd attending the Blizzard Bash Demolition Derby just to the south.When Officers arrived they found Kelly running onto SW 17th Street.He is accused of committing several aggravated assaults on multiple law enforcement officers as he was brandishing two large knives. Officers used force to take Kelly into custody. No injuries were reported for anyone involved other than minor scrapes and bruising on Kelly.He is being held in the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on requested charges of Criminal Trespass, Felony Obstruction and Aggravated Assault on a Law Enforcement Officer, according to Jones.

Kan. man with machete was 'going after guests' outside capitol hotel

JACKSON COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas woman on drug charges after an arrest.

On Nov. 6,&nbsp; a sheriff’s deputy stopped to assist a driver who was locked out of her 2008 Ford Fusion, according to Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse.

During the encounter the deputy located illegal narcotics in the vehicle. 

The deputy arrested the driver and owner of the vehicle, Tania Lila Rogers, 46, of Topeka on requested charges that included possession of methamphetamine, possession of a hallucinogenic drug and possession of drug paraphernalia.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636641344892.png" alt="Rogers photo Jackson Co." />
 <figcaption>Rogers photo Jackson Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>JACKSON COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas woman on drug charges after an arrest.On Nov. 6,&nbsp; a sheriff’s deputy stopped to assist a driver who was locked out of her 2008 Ford Fusion, according to Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse.During the encounter the deputy located illegal narcotics in the vehicle. The deputy arrested the driver and owner of the vehicle, Tania Lila Rogers, 46, of Topeka on requested charges that included possession of methamphetamine, possession of a hallucinogenic drug and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Kan. deputy helping woman locked out of car found illegal drugs

GEARY COUNTY—Law enforcement are asking the public for help to locate a suspect identified as 23-year-old James Tyshawn Carwell III who fled a traffic stop on Thursday, according to Junction City Police.

Carwell has multiple active arrest warrants. Carwell was last seen wearing a yellow hoodie and blue basketball shorts. He is 6-foot tall, weighs 195 pounds and has blue eyes and brown hair.

Anyone with information about his location please contact the Junction City Police Department at 785 762 5912 or crime stoppers at 785 762 8477. You can also message the Police Department Facebook page with any information you may have. Information leading to James'  arrest will be eligible for a cash reward from Crime Stoppers.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636735070844.png" alt="Carwell has a previous felony robbery conviction, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections" />
 <figcaption>Carwell has a previous felony robbery conviction, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections</figcaption>
 </figure>GEARY COUNTY—Law enforcement are asking the public for help to locate a suspect identified as 23-year-old James Tyshawn Carwell III who fled a traffic stop on Thursday, according to Junction City Police.Carwell has multiple active arrest warrants. Carwell was last seen wearing a yellow hoodie and blue basketball shorts. He is 6-foot tall, weighs 195 pounds and has blue eyes and brown hair.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2019/11/1574714586751.jpeg" alt="Carwell from an earlier arrest in Geary Co." />
 <figcaption>Carwell from an earlier arrest in Geary Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>Anyone with information about his location please contact the Junction City Police Department at 785 762 5912 or crime stoppers at 785 762 8477. You can also message the Police Department Facebook page with any information you may have. Information leading to James' arrest will be eligible for a cash reward from Crime Stoppers.

Police ask for help to locate Kan. felon who fled traffic stop

ATCHISON COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating a registered Kansas sex offender on new charges.

Shortly after 10a.m. Wednesday, police investigated the theft of items, which included a carton of cigarettes, binoculars, a video game, and a leather cigarette case, from a parked truck in a parking lot in the 1900 block South U.S.73 Highway in Atchison, according to Police Chief Mike Wilson.

Police identified two suspects and located them in the area. They took 39-year-old Brett A. Johnson, Lansing, into custody and recovered all of the stolen items. Johnson is being held on requested charges of burglary and theft.

On Nov. 4, police arrested Johnson&nbsp;on a Kansas Department of Corrections detain order for parole violation, according to Wilson.

Johnson has three previous convictions for aggravated indecent liberties with a child. In addition, Johnson has eight previous convictions for theft and burglary and has convictions for aggravated battery, criminal restraint and criminal damage to property, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636036816185.png" alt="Johnson-photo Atchison County" />
 <figcaption>Johnson-photo Atchison County</figcaption>
 </figure>ATCHISON COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating a registered Kansas sex offender on new charges.Shortly after 10a.m. Wednesday, police investigated the theft of items, which included a carton of cigarettes, binoculars, a video game, and a leather cigarette case, from a parked truck in a parking lot in the 1900 block South U.S.73 Highway in Atchison, according to Police Chief Mike Wilson.Police identified two suspects and located them in the area. They took 39-year-old Brett A. Johnson, Lansing, into custody and recovered all of the stolen items. Johnson is being held on requested charges of burglary and theft.On Nov. 4, police arrested Johnson&nbsp;on a Kansas Department of Corrections detain order for parole violation, according to Wilson.Johnson has three previous convictions for aggravated indecent liberties with a child. In addition, Johnson has eight previous convictions for theft and burglary and has convictions for aggravated battery, criminal restraint and criminal damage to property, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections.

Police: Registered Kan. sex offender jailed for burglary, theft 

By STEPHEN KORANDA <a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-11-10/heres-what-it-would-take-to-remove-a-kansas-lawmaker-charged-with-domestic-battery">Kansas News Service</a>

Kansas state Rep. Aaron Coleman could face a second complaint from his fellow Democratic lawmakers following his <a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-10-31/kansas-rep-aaron-coleman-arrested-on-domestic-violence-charge" target="_blank">arrest last month</a> for an alleged domestic battery. And it appears less likely he’d emerge with a simple reprimand like he did last time.

Coleman,
 from Kansas City, Kansas, was the subject of a legislative complaint 
earlier this year based on allegations that he abused and threatened 
women before taking office. An investigative committee ultimately 
dismissed the charge and issued an informal letter of reprimand.

Coleman
 has a history of allegations of abuse and harassment. The 21-year-old 
narrowly defeated an incumbent in last year’s election. That prompted 
calls to remove him when the allegations came to light. He was also <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-legislature-kansas-city-kansas-263a71a057314255fdf024b3acb34782" target="_blank">recently banned</a> from a state Department of Labor facility.

Democrats on the committee earlier this year initially wanted harsher
 punishment — like a formal censure or expulsion from the Legislature.

“There
 has to be something done, because otherwise this is a slap in the face 
to all those people who are his victims,” Democratic Rep. Cindy Neighbor
 said at the January hearing.

But those efforts couldn’t advance 
because Republicans didn’t want to take more severe action over fear of 
setting a precedent. They said there was no previous instance of a 
lawmaker facing discipline for actions before they took office.

“I
 don’t want to set a precedent that has never been done before in Kansas
 history,” Republican Rep. John Barker said when opposing any formal 
action against Coleman.

If lawmakers file a new complaint against 
Coleman, committee members wouldn’t have the same concerns about setting
 a new precedent. In this case, Coleman would face discipline for 
actions he took while he was a sitting lawmaker.

Few details have so far been released on Coleman’s arrest last month, but <a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-11-01/kansas-state-rep-aaron-coleman-of-kansas-city-kansas-pleads-not-guilty-to-domestic-violence-charge" target="_blank">court documents</a>
 appear to show the battery charge stems from an alleged altercation 
with a family member. It appears that the family member may be Coleman’s
 brother.

A group of women Democratic legislators say they will 
file a new complaint seeking expulsion if Coleman doesn't step down 
following the battery charge.

“We are alarmed that an individual 
remains in a position of power after continued documented accounts of 
violence,” the lawmakers said in a statement. “The message must be sent 
that violence and dangerous conduct won’t be tolerated.”

One of 
those lawmakers, Democratic Rep. Jo Ella Hoye, said the women had not 
set a deadline for Coleman to resign or face a new complaint.

If a
 new complaint is filed, a committee would be created to investigate. 
That panel would then decide whether to dismiss the complaint or 
recommend some disciplinary action to the full House, which could 
admonish him or kick him out of the Legislature.

With the 2022 
session slated to start Jan. 10, it’s unlikely a special investigative 
committee would be formed and consider a complaint before the next 
session starts.

Coleman did not respond to requests for comment.

Stephen Koranda is the news editor for the Kansas News Service. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Stephen_Koranda" target="_blank">@Stephen_Koranda</a> or email him at stephenkoranda@kcur.org.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636565753881.png" alt="Coleman at a protest earlier this year opposing calls to remove him from office. Stephen Koranda / Kansas News Service" />
 <figcaption>Coleman at a protest earlier this year opposing calls to remove him from office. Stephen Koranda / Kansas News Service</figcaption>
 </figure>By STEPHEN KORANDA <a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-11-10/heres-what-it-would-take-to-remove-a-kansas-lawmaker-charged-with-domestic-battery">Kansas News Service</a>Kansas state Rep. Aaron Coleman could face a second complaint from his fellow Democratic lawmakers following his <a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-10-31/kansas-rep-aaron-coleman-arrested-on-domestic-violence-charge" target="_blank">arrest last month</a> for an alleged domestic battery. And it appears less likely he’d emerge with a simple reprimand like he did last time.Coleman,
 from Kansas City, Kansas, was the subject of a legislative complaint 
earlier this year based on allegations that he abused and threatened 
women before taking office. An investigative committee ultimately 
dismissed the charge and issued an informal letter of reprimand.Coleman
 has a history of allegations of abuse and harassment. The 21-year-old 
narrowly defeated an incumbent in last year’s election. That prompted 
calls to remove him when the allegations came to light. He was also <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-legislature-kansas-city-kansas-263a71a057314255fdf024b3acb34782" target="_blank">recently banned</a> from a state Department of Labor facility.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636565812186.png" alt="Coleman speaking in a video posted on his YouTube channel." />
 <figcaption>Coleman speaking in a video posted on his YouTube channel.</figcaption>
 </figure>Democrats on the committee earlier this year initially wanted harsher
 punishment — like a formal censure or expulsion from the Legislature.“There
 has to be something done, because otherwise this is a slap in the face 
to all those people who are his victims,” Democratic Rep. Cindy Neighbor
 said at the January hearing.But those efforts couldn’t advance 
because Republicans didn’t want to take more severe action over fear of 
setting a precedent. They said there was no previous instance of a 
lawmaker facing discipline for actions before they took office.“I
 don’t want to set a precedent that has never been done before in Kansas
 history,” Republican Rep. John Barker said when opposing any formal 
action against Coleman.If lawmakers file a new complaint against 
Coleman, committee members wouldn’t have the same concerns about setting
 a new precedent. In this case, Coleman would face discipline for 
actions he took while he was a sitting lawmaker.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1635804497310.png" alt="Coleman from his Oct. 30, Johnson Co. booking photo" />
 <figcaption>Coleman from his Oct. 30, Johnson Co. booking photo</figcaption>
 </figure>Few details have so far been released on Coleman’s arrest last month, but <a href="https://www.kcur.org/news/2021-11-01/kansas-state-rep-aaron-coleman-of-kansas-city-kansas-pleads-not-guilty-to-domestic-violence-charge" target="_blank">court documents</a>
 appear to show the battery charge stems from an alleged altercation 
with a family member. It appears that the family member may be Coleman’s
 brother.A group of women Democratic legislators say they will 
file a new complaint seeking expulsion if Coleman doesn't step down 
following the battery charge.“We are alarmed that an individual 
remains in a position of power after continued documented accounts of 
violence,” the lawmakers said in a statement. “The message must be sent 
that violence and dangerous conduct won’t be tolerated.”One of 
those lawmakers, Democratic Rep. Jo Ella Hoye, said the women had not 
set a deadline for Coleman to resign or face a new complaint.If a
 new complaint is filed, a committee would be created to investigate. 
That panel would then decide whether to dismiss the complaint or 
recommend some disciplinary action to the full House, which could 
admonish him or kick him out of the Legislature.With the 2022 
session slated to start Jan. 10, it’s unlikely a special investigative 
committee would be formed and consider a complaint before the next 
session starts.Coleman did not respond to requests for comment.Stephen Koranda is the news editor for the Kansas News Service. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Stephen_Koranda" target="_blank">@Stephen_Koranda</a> or email him at stephenkoranda@kcur.org.

What it would take to remove Kan. lawmaker charged with domestic battery

JACKSON COUNTY–Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas man for alleged drug distribution.

Just after 11:30p.m. Nov. 6,&nbsp; a sheriff’s deputy stopped a Ford Ranger in the 100 Block of W. 2nd Street in the City of Hoyt for a traffic infraction, according to Sheriff Tim Morse.

After an investigation, deputies arrested the passenger, John Bradley Hudson, 46, of Hoyt and booked him into the Jackson County Jail for possession of methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of a hallucinogenic drug and possession of drug paraphernalia.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636641033172.png" alt="Hudson photo Jackson Co." />
 <figcaption>Hudson photo Jackson Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>JACKSON COUNTY–Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas man for alleged drug distribution.Just after 11:30p.m. Nov. 6,&nbsp; a sheriff’s deputy stopped a Ford Ranger in the 100 Block of W. 2nd Street in the City of Hoyt for a traffic infraction, according to Sheriff Tim Morse.After an investigation, deputies arrested the passenger, John Bradley Hudson, 46, of Hoyt and booked him into the Jackson County Jail for possession of methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, possession of a hallucinogenic drug and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Sheriff: Kansas man had hallucinogenic drugs, was selling meth

RENO COUNTY. — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on sex crime and kidnapping allegations.

Just after 8:30p.m. Monday, deputies were sent to a rural residence northwest of Hutchinson for a domestic disturbance, according to a media release.&nbsp;

 Deputies spoke with a man who stated the caller to 911 had just left the residence.&nbsp;

Tuesday morning, detectives began to review information previously gathered about this case and set up further interviews. In this continued investigation, it is believed that several crimes were possibly committed causing the initial call. 

On Wednesday, deputies arrested 33-year-old Mathew W. Morgan of rural Hutchinson on requested charges of Aggravated Sodomy, Aggravated Domestic Battery and Aggravated Kidnapping. He is being held on a bond of $152,500, according to the release.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636628412851.jpeg" alt="Morgan-photo Reno Co." />
 <figcaption>Morgan-photo Reno Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>RENO COUNTY. — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on sex crime and kidnapping allegations.Just after 8:30p.m. Monday, deputies were sent to a rural residence northwest of Hutchinson for a domestic disturbance, according to a media release.&nbsp; Deputies spoke with a man who stated the caller to 911 had just left the residence.&nbsp;Tuesday morning, detectives began to review information previously gathered about this case and set up further interviews. In this continued investigation, it is believed that several crimes were possibly committed causing the initial call. On Wednesday, deputies arrested 33-year-old Mathew W. Morgan of rural Hutchinson on requested charges of Aggravated Sodomy, Aggravated Domestic Battery and Aggravated Kidnapping. He is being held on a bond of $152,500, according to the release.

Deputies arrest Kansas man for alleged sex crimes, kidnapping

SALINA—Law enforcement authorities served&nbsp; multiple narcotics-related search warrants Wednesday in the Salina area and made three arrests.&nbsp;

After an investigation that lasted several months, the I-135/I-70 Drug Task Force with assistance from the KBI and KHP served seven narcotics-related search warrants at 2130 E. Crawford No. 211, 1800 S. Broadway A, 703 W. Cloud, 703.5 W. Cloud, 765 Commanche, 620 Jameson and 1601 Gypsum, according to a media release.

Police booked Charles Anthony Adams, 41, 2130 E. Crawford Street #211 on requested charges of Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, Possession of methamphetamine and Possession of drug proceeds.

Police booked Reginald Treville Benoit Sr., 36, 620 Jameson Avenue on requested charges of Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, Possession of methamphetamine and Possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute

Police booked Angie Marie Allison, 45, 703.5 W. Cloud Street in requested charges of Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and Possession of methamphetamine

During the searches, approximately one ounce of methamphetamine, an ounce of cocaine, one semi-automatic handgun, and more than $15,000 in currency were seized, according to information from the police department. 

SALINA—Law enforcement authorities served&nbsp; multiple narcotics-related search warrants Wednesday in the Salina area and made three arrests.&nbsp;After an investigation that lasted several months, the I-135/I-70 Drug Task Force with assistance from the KBI and KHP served seven narcotics-related search warrants at 2130 E. Crawford No. 211, 1800 S. Broadway A, 703 W. Cloud, 703.5 W. Cloud, 765 Commanche, 620 Jameson and 1601 Gypsum, according to a media release.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636582656617.jpeg" alt="Charles Anthony Adams- photo Saline Co." />
 <figcaption>Charles Anthony Adams- photo Saline Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>Police booked Charles Anthony Adams, 41, 2130 E. Crawford Street #211 on requested charges of Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, Possession of methamphetamine and Possession of drug proceeds.<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636582720930.jpeg" alt="Reginald Treville Benoit Sr.-photo Saline Co." />
 <figcaption>Reginald Treville Benoit Sr.-photo Saline Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>Police booked Reginald Treville Benoit Sr., 36, 620 Jameson Avenue on requested charges of Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, Possession of methamphetamine and Possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636582768426.jpeg" alt="Angie Marie Allison photo Saline Co." />
 <figcaption>Angie Marie Allison photo Saline Co.</figcaption>
 </figure>Police booked Angie Marie Allison, 45, 703.5 W. Cloud Street in requested charges of Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and Possession of methamphetamineDuring the searches, approximately one ounce of methamphetamine, an ounce of cocaine, one semi-automatic handgun, and more than $15,000 in currency were seized, according to information from the police department.

3 jailed in Kansas following drug task force investigation

Security camera footage, shell casings and a small but distinctive tattoo played pivotal roles in the arrest of a man suspected in at least six killings over the past two months in the St. Louis and&nbsp;Kansas&nbsp;City areas.

The St. Louis Circuit Attorney's office on Tuesday charged Perez Deshay Reed in the shooting deaths of two people in the city in September. Reed was charged Saturday in two other fatal shootings in September in St. Louis County. He is also suspected of killing two people in Kansas City, Kansas, and the FBI has labeled him a suspected serial killer.

Reed, who turns 26 years old Wednesday, remained jailed on $2 million bond Tuesday and didn't yet have an attorney.

<figure>
 <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2021/11/1636462416961.png" alt="Reed photo St. Louis County District Attorney" />
 <figcaption>Reed photo St. Louis County District Attorney</figcaption>
 </figure>By JIM SALTER, Associated PressSecurity camera footage, shell casings and a small but distinctive tattoo played pivotal roles in the arrest of a man suspected in at least six killings over the past two months in the St. Louis and&nbsp;Kansas&nbsp;City areas.The St. Louis Circuit Attorney's office on Tuesday charged Perez Deshay Reed in the shooting deaths of two people in the city in September. Reed was charged Saturday in two other fatal shootings in September in St. Louis County. He is also suspected of killing two people in Kansas City, Kansas, and the FBI has labeled him a suspected serial killer.Reed, who turns 26 years old Wednesday, remained jailed on $2 million bond Tuesday and didn't yet have an attorney.Surveillance video in Kansas helped lead to Reed's arrest. Images captured by the cameras showed the distinctive crescent moon-shaped tattoo on Reed's forehead. Another key factor was evidence left behind at each of the St. Louis-area shootings.“The commonality among them were handgun casings,” Rich Quinn, special agent in charge of the FBI office in St. Louis, said. “We knew they came from the same handgun.”Reed is charged in the St. Louis County killings of 16-year-old Marnay Haynes on Sept. 13 and 40-year-old Lester Robinson on Sept. 26. In the city of St. Louis, he is suspected in the killings of 49-year-old Pamela Abercrombie on Sept. 16 and a 24-year-old man, Carey Ross, on Sept. 19. All four victims were shot in the head.His capture followed the killing of a man and a woman at a Kansas City, Kansas, apartment complex.Surveillance video showed Reed entering Damon Irvin's apartment on Oct. 28. Police found Irvin, 35, fatally shot in the apartment on Nov. 1, according to an FBI affidavit.Reed and 25-year-old Rau'Daja Fairrow entered the same apartment complex on the night of Oct. 29 and Reed left 15 minutes later, according to the affidavit. Fairrow's nude body was found Nov. 2 in her apartment. The FBI said Reed showed his driver's license to enter the building, and the surveillance video showed his forehead tattoo.Officers began tailing Reed and were watching Friday as he boarded a St. Louis-bound Amtrak train that left Union Station in Kansas City,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/missouri">Missouri</a>.But instead of riding to St. Louis, Reed got off at the first stop in the Kansas City suburb of Independence, Missouri, the FBI said. Officers conducting surveillance from aboard the train arrested Reed as he boarded a bus. He was allegedly carrying a .40-caliber handgun that investigators believe he used in the St. Louis-area shootings.During an interview with police, Reed denied that he hurt anyone, according to the affidavit.Investigators haven’t ruled out the possibility that Reed committed additional crimes. St. Louis County Lt. Craig Longworth said there was no known connection between the victims.“These seemed to be random acts,” he said.Reed has connections to the St. Louis and Kansas City areas.He began living with a cousin in St. Louis County in 2004 when he was 8 years old, and she later became his legal guardian when his parents were deemed “unwilling, unable and unfit” to care for him, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. He was charged with misdemeanor assault in St. Louis County in 2019, though that case hasn't gone to trial. He had no known history of felony charges.Reed married in Jackson County, which includes some of Kansas City, Missouri, in June of 2019. His wife filed for divorce in July and a hearing in the divorce case is scheduled for Dec. 2.The Wyandotte County district attorney’s office was awaiting a police report before it would consider charges against Reed, a spokesman said Tuesday.