Kansas City Kansas Police

"It's hard to believe others in the department didn't know what was going on," former U.S. Attorney for Kansas Stephen R. McAllister says of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department during former Det. Roger Golubski's time there.

Prosecutors had urged the judge to keep Golubski, who was indicted last week on charges of violating two women's civil rights when he allegedly assaulted them more than two decades ago, in detention until trial.

Former Kansas City, Kansas, detective Roger Golubski is accused of putting an innocent man in jail, exploiting vulnerable Black women, and terrorizing the community for decades. How did he get away with it for so long, and what does justice look like?

Roger Golubski is back in federal court on Monday for a hearing to determine if he should remain in custody or be released on bond. The former Kansas City, Kansas, Police detective is accused of sexually assaulting two women — but he faces charges of depriving them of their civil rights under federal law.

After years of numerous allegations of coercion and sexual assault, retired KCKPD detective Roger Golubski was taken into custody by the FBI.

Durante 35 años Golubski trabajaba en el Departamento de Policía de Kansas City, Kansas, y se retiró como capitán en el 2010. Durante años, ha sido objeto de acusaciones de que aterrorizaba a los residentes negros de la ciudad, agredía sexualmente a las mujeres e intercambiaba drogas por información para cerrar casos.

In an unusually graphic motion aimed at keeping Golubski in jail before trial, federal prosecutors laid out how the former Kansas City, Kansas, detective engaged in a pattern of kidnapping and sexually assaulting women and girls as young as 13 years old, before threatening his victims into silence.

Ophelia Williams is named as one of two victims in the federal indictment against former Kansas City, Kansas, Police Detective Roger Golubski, who is accused of raping and sexually assaulting her repeatedly for years.

Golubski worked for the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department for 35 years, retiring as a captain in 2010. For years, he has been the subject of allegations that he terrorized Black residents of the city, sexually assaulted women and exchanged drugs for information in order to clear cases.

Kansas City, Kansas, Police officer Deotis Brown, 33, faces domestic violence charges in both Wyandotte and Jackson counties. He's accused of assaulting the same victim in two different incidents.

Lamonte McIntyre was wrongfully imprisoned for 23 years for a double homicide he didn’t commit.

U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil rejected arguments by former Kansas City, Kansas, detective Roger Golubski to decide a civil rights case against him in his favor. Vratil said claims brought by Lamonte McIntyre should be decided by a jury.