Retired Kansas City Detective Involved In Sex-Trafficking

An experienced homicide investigator in Kansas City collaborated with a local drug lord to help run a sex-trafficking enterprise involving young girls, prosecutors charged in an explosive indictment released Monday.

According to the three-count indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Topeka, Roger Golubski, a retired 35-year member of the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, shielded the enterprise from law enforcement investigations by using his position. Golubski issued a not-guilty plea, according to his attorney.

According to prosecutors, girls as young as 13 were victims of the sex trafficking business, which was conducted out of an apartment complex in the 1990s by a local crack dealer named Cecil Brooks and two other men.

In exchange for his protection, Golubski received money from Brooks and was permitted to “choose girls to provide him sexual services,” according to the indictment.

Golubski, who retired from the police force in 2010, was charged in September with sexually abusing a lady and an adolescent girl 20 years ago "while acting under color of law," which means he committed the offenses while in uniform. Likewise, he has pleaded not guilty to these accusations.

Prosecutors released a second indictment against him recently, charging him with "conspiracy against rights" and two counts of "involuntary servitude" in relation to the suspected sex trafficking ring while he awaited trial under home detention in the first case. Both cases are the result of a multi-year grand jury investigation that CNN first reported on last year.

According to the recent indictment, Brooks recruited "young females who were runaways" or were from broken homes and kept them locked in a room at an apartment complex, where he, LeMark Roberson, and Richard "Bone" Robinson used threats and physical whippings to force them to engage in sex acts. The indictment alleges that two unidentified victims were held captive and compelled to engage in sexual activity.

One of the victims informed investigators that Golubski yanked her hair, suffocated her, and raped her when she was only 16 years old.

One of the victims told authorities she was just 16 years old when Golubski pulled her hair, choked her and raped her.

It was not immediately clear whether Golubski’s co-defendants appeared in court and, if so, how they pleaded to the charges. None were immediately available for comment.

Golubski first came under public scrutiny in 2016 for his work in the double murder conviction of a man named Lamonte McIntyre. McIntyre, who had served 23 years in prison, was freed in 2017 when the district attorney for Wyandotte County, which includes Kansas City, Kansas, concluded he no longer had faith in the conviction and asked a judge to dismiss the case.

Following his release, McIntyre and his mother filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against multiple officers involved in his arrest, taking particular aim at Golubski.

The suit accused Golubski of using his badge to terrorize the Black community for decades. It alleged a wide array of crimes and misconduct, including sexually preying upon vulnerable Black women and of having an illicit association with Brooks, who allegedly paid Golubski for information and protection.

The case settled over the summer for $12.5 million but neither Golubski, nor the other defendants, which included fellow officers and the county government, acknowledged any wrongdoing.

The allegations centered around Golubski garnered national attention last year when Team Roc, the social justice and philanthropic arm of rapper Jay-Z’s entertainment company Roc Nation, took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post calling the alleged police corruption in Kansas City “one of the worst examples of abuse of power in U.S. history” and urged the Department of Justice to investigate Golubski and the Kansas City Kansas Police Department. 

Sources: Retired detective and Kansas City drug kingpin charged with conspiring to run an underage sex-trafficking operation

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