Roger Golubski, ex-KCKPD detective accused of abuse, dead of apparent suicide before trial
Source: KCUR-FM via Kansas Reflector
Roger Golubski, the former Kansas City, Kansas, Police detective accused of misconduct, criminal behavior and “the grossest acts of corruption a police officer can commit,” has died of an apparent suicide. He was 71.
Police rushed to Golubski’s home in Edwardsville, where an electronic monitoring device showed he was located, after he failed to appear for the first day of his federal trial at 9 a.m. Monday in Topeka. A judge issued a warrant for his arrest and delayed the start of trial.
According to a statement from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Edwardsville Police received a 911 call from a neighbor reporting a gunshot.
“When officers arrived on scene, they located a deceased male on the back porch, who had sustained a fatal gunshot wound,” the statement read. The KBI added that there were “no indications of foul play.”
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Read more: https://kansasreflector.com/2024/12/02/roger-golubski-ex-kckpd-detective-accused-of-abuse-dead-of-apparent-suicide-before-trial/
Source: Associated Press
An ex-detective accused of abusing women died in an apparent suicide as his trial was starting
by: JOHN HANNA, HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and NICK INGRAM, Associated Press
Posted: Dec 2, 2024 / 05:57 PM CST
Updated: Dec 2, 2024 / 06:02 PM CST
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A white ex-police detective in Kansas died Monday in an apparent suicide just before the start of his criminal trial over allegations that he sexually assaulted Black women and terrorized those who tried fight back.
Local police found Roger Golubski dead of a gunshot wound on the back porch of his split-level home outside Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said “there are no indications of foul play” in the 71-year-old’s death, discovered Monday morning after a neighbor heard a gunshot.
Fifty miles (80 kilometers) to the west, prosecutors and Golubski’s attorneys were inside the federal courthouse in Topeka, where Golubski faced six felony counts of violating women’s civil rights. Prosecutors say that, for years, Golubski preyed on female residents in poor neighborhoods, demanding sexual favors and sometimes threatening to harm or jail their relatives if they refused. He had pleaded not guilty.
His death led U.S. District Judge Toby Crouse to dismiss the charges at prosecutors’ request, though a second criminal case involving three other co-defendants remains. U.S. Department of Justice officials said it’s “difficult” when a case cannot “be fully and fairly heard in a public trial,” but advocates for the women who accused Golubski of abusing them were angry, feeling that they and the community were denied a reckoning.
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Read more: https://wreg.com/news/nation-and-world/ap-us-news/ap-a-white-kansas-detective-accused-of-preying-on-black-women-for-decades-faces-trial/
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There is a civil lawsuit against the deceased and other alleged co-conspirators. One of the accused is a former cop, now the US Marshal for the District of Kansas.
Ronald L. Miller, US Marshal, District of Kansas
Sources:
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/kansas/ksdce/2:2023cv02489/149935
https://www.kmbc.com/article/accusers-of-former-kansas-city-kansas-detective-roger-golubski-file-lawsuit-against-former-kck-police-chiefs-county/45758492
