UPDATE: HE KILLED HIMSELF ALREADY: Trial begins for long time detective who terrorized the Kansas City area for decades

[8WON6]

Once revered Kansas police detective is going on trial. Accusers allege he terrorized the community

A white Kansas City, Kansas, police detective who's accused of sexually assaulting Black women and girls and terrorizing those who tried to fight back is facing trial this week.

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Once revered Kansas police detective is going on trial. Accusers allege he terrorized the community​

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A white Kansas City, Kansas, police detective who is accused of sexually assaulting Black women and girls is facing trial this week.

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FILE - Former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective Roger Golubski testifies, Oct. 24, 2022, at the Wyandotte County courthouse in Kansas City, Kan. (Emily Curiel/The Kansas City Star via AP)

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FILE - This undated photo provided by the Edwardsville Police Department shows former Kansas City, Kansas Police detective Roger Golubski. Five women who say they were sexually assaulted or harassed by Golubski, filed a lawsuit Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, accusing the government of allowing police corruption to thrive for years. (Edwardsville Police Department via AP, File)
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By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, NICK INGRAM and JOHN HANNA
Updated 10:21 AM CST, December 2, 2024
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A white Kansas police detective accused of sexually assaulting Black women and girls and terrorizing those who tried to fight back is about to go on federal trial, part of a tangle of cases tied to decades of alleged abuse.
Prosecutors say female residents of poor neighborhoods in Kansas City, Kansas, feared that if they crossed paths with Roger Golubski, he’d demand sexual favors and threaten to harm or jail their relatives. He is charged with six felony counts of violating women’s civil rights, and jury selection in his trial is set to begin Monday in a federal courthouse in Topeka.
The case has outraged the community and deepened the historical distrust of law enforcement. “Our emotions are everywhere,” said Laquanda Jacobs, herself freed from prison through the work of the Midwest Innocence Project, as she waited in Kansas City, Kansas, to board a Topeka-bound bus with other advocates.
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The prosecution follows earlier reports of similar abuse allegations across the country where hundreds of officers have lost their badges after allegations of sexual assaults.


Golubski, now 71, is accused of sexually assaulting one woman starting when she was barely a teenager and another after her sons were arrested. If a jury convicts him, he could die in prison.
About 50 people rallied outside the federal courthouse Monday morning in freezing temperatures to show their support for women who’ve said they were victimized by Golubski. They held signs that said, “Justice now!”


The trial is the latest in a string of lawsuits and criminal allegations that has led the county prosecutor’s office to begin a $1.7 million effort to reexamine cases Golubski worked on during his 35 years on the force. One double murder case Golubski investigated already has resulted in an exoneration, and an organization run by rapper Jay-Z is suing to obtain police records.
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Golubski has pleaded not guilty, and his attorney has said that lawsuits over the allegations are an “inspiration for fabrication” by his accusers. But prosecutors said that, along with the two women whose accounts are the heart of the criminal case, seven others will testify that Golubski abused or harassed them.
“Every time I turn around, I’m looking,” said Jermeka Hobbs, who has filed a separate lawsuit against Golubski and is not a witness in the trial. Her lawsuit says she was groomed to be one of “Golubski’s girls” and submitted to sexual advances fearing that he would bust her for drugs. “I’m thinking somebody is after me. I have no peace at all.”
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[8WON6]

A veteran detective patrolling poor neighborhoods​

Fellow officers once revered Golubski for his ability to clear cases, and he rose to the rank of captain in Kansas City, Kansas, before retiring there in 2010 and then working on a suburban police force for six more years. His former partner served a stint as police chief.
Golubski now looks nothing like the influential officer he was. He is under house arrest and undergoing kidney dialysis treatments three times a week. That will limit his trial to Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
His attorney, Chris Joseph, said in a statement that some of the allegations against Golubski are 20 to 30 years old, adding, “In public filings, the prosecution has acknowledged that the verdict will turn entirely on the accusers’ credibility.”
But Jim McCloskey, founder of Centurion, a New Jersey nonprofit working to free innocent people, described Golubski in a court hearing as the “dirtiest cop I’ve ever encountered.”
Stories about Golubski remained just whispers in the neighborhoods near Kansas City’s former cattle stockyards partly because of the extreme poverty of a place where some homes are boarded up. One neighborhood where Golubski worked is part of Kansas’ second-poorest zip code.
Crime was abundant there, as were drug dealers and prostitutes, said Max Seifert, a former Kansas City, Kansas, police officer who graduated from the police academy with Golubski in 1975.
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A fellow officer: ‘A boys will be boys type of thing’​

Seifert said police misconduct was tolerated in the department. He described how informants and Golubski’s ex-wife complained that Golubski was soliciting prostitutes. Golubski also was caught having sex with a woman in his office, he said.
“It’s kind of like a boys will be boys type thing,” said Seifert, who was forced into early retirement for refusing to conceal a motorist’s beating by a federal agent in 2003.
McCloskey said in an interview that Golubski had women “at his mercy.”
The inquiry into Golubski stems from the case of Lamonte McIntyre, who started writing to McCloskey’s nonprofit nearly two decades ago.
McIntyre was just 17 in 1994 when he was arrested and charged in connection with a double homicide, within hours of the crimes. He had an alibi; no physical evidence linked him to the killings; and an eyewitness believed the killer was an underling of a local drug dealer. Golubski and the dealer have since been charged in a separate federal case of running a violent sex trafficking operation.
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The eyewitness only testified that McIntyre was the killer after Golubski and a now disbarred attorney threatened to take her children away, she alleged in a lawsuit.
McIntyre’s mother said in a 2014 affidavit that she wonders whether her refusal to grant regular sexual favors to Golubski prompted him to retaliate against her son.
“She, like many people in the community, just viewed the police as all-powerful,” said Cheryl Pilate, an attorney who helped free McIntyre in 2017.
In 2022, the local government agreed to pay $12.5 million to McIntyre and his mother to settle a lawsuit after a deposition in which Golubski invoked his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent 555 times. The state also paid McIntyre $1.5 million.
“That was the thread that gave people some courage,” said Lindsay Runnels, who serves on the board of the Midwest Innocence Project.

Women say they were threatened and mocked​

Prosecutors say Golubski drove one of the women at the center of their criminal case to a cemetery and told her to find a spot to dig her own grave. He sexually assaulted her repeatedly, starting when she was just in middle school, leading her to suffer a miscarriage, court filings say.
Once, prosecutors say, he forced her to crawl on the ground with a dog leash around her neck in a remote spot near the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. With no one around, he is accused of chanting, “Down by the river, said a hank a pank; Where they won’t find her until she stank.”
Golubski introduced himself to Ophelia Williams, the other woman at the center of the case, by complimenting her legs and nightgown as police searched her home, prosecutors said.
Williams was terrified at the time because her 14-year-old twins had just been arrested in a double homicide. They ultimately admitted to the crime so police would free their 13-year-old brother, Williams said in a separate lawsuit.
Golubski began sexually assaulting her, alternating between threatening her and claiming he could help her sons, according to court records in the criminal case. The twins are now 40 and remain behind bars. The lawsuit she is part of questions their confessions.
The Associated Press generally does not name alleged victims of sexual assault, but Williams has told her story publicly.

Williams said in her lawsuit that she once mentioned making a complaint. She claims Golubski told her: “Report me to who, the police? I am the police.”

 

[8WON6]

Some of the other threads about him.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/black-man-wrongfully-imprisoned-for-23-years-in-kc-area-gets-12-5-million-settlement.923963/post-47041528

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/kc-police-officers-charged-in-sex-slave-ring-since-the-90s.947139/post-47625531

 

[Maddmike]

He killed himself i just heard

 

[blockburna420]

He killed himself i just heard

MSN

 

[jadillac]

Aww man. Now he'll never be appointed in Trump's cabinet

 

[lurker emeritus]

that escalated quickly

 

[8WON6]

He killed himself i just heard

MSN

damn. Welp that's that.

and part of me doesn't believe he killed himself. He was going to snitch on all kinds of people below and above him.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

It’s corruption and all kinds of shyt up and down KCPD and even in the KCFD union

 

[Kisame]

wooohooo!!!

 

[Jasonmask]

This is why I’m against capital punishment. Not because I don’t think they don’t deserve it but because it’s the easy way out. It’s a lot more stressful being behind those walls having to always be on guard and keeping your head on a swivel than to just die on death row plus it takes awhile to get executed anyways

 

[Mordith]

MSN

I'm shocked that a cowardly CAC would take the coward's way out.

May his soul be tormented in the flames of hell for the rest of eternity.

 

[8WON6]

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article296428389.html

After ex-Kansas City, Kansas, police detective Roger Golubski failed to show up to court Monday morning, two sources familiar with the investigation who spoke on condition their names not be used said that the former officer died by suicide in his Edwardsville home. Golubski died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a third source familiar with the investigation who spoke on condition their name not be used. A federal judge granted an arrest warrant for Golubski, facing six felony charges, on Monday morning when he didn’t appear in court on time. The process of jury selection was on track to begin for his long-awaited, 17-day trial.

Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article296428389.html#storylink=cpy

 

[Buckeye Fever]

This is why I’m against capital punishment. Not because I don’t think they don’t deserve it but because it’s the easy way out. It’s a lot more stressful being behind those walls having to always be on guard and keeping your head on a swivel than to just die on death row plus it takes awhile to get executed anyways

See, I can respect this reasoning being against capital punishment. The ones who are against it for inhumane reasons when the person did multiple inhumane things to ppl can

 

[Afro]

damn. Welp that's that.

and part of me doesn't believe he killed himself. He was going to snitch on all kinds of people below and above him.

Dude was involved in a sex trafficking ring, no way he was gonna get to the trial. The whole department was most likely in on that shyt.

Man had sex in his own office! SMH.