Former Kansas City Detective Accused of Sexually Assaulting & Exploiting Women Killed Himself the Day His Trial Was Set to Begin

Roger Golubski

Roger Golubski, 71, a former police detective for the Kansas City Police, was accused of sexually assaulting, terrorizing, and forcing Black women from a predominately Black area in Kansas City into involuntary sex servitude.

Golubski was facing life in prison after being indicted with three others, Cecil Brooks, LeMark Roberso, and Richard Robinson, for multiple charges. Golubski's trial was set to start Monday morning, yet local authorities discovered his dead body at his home in what appeared to be a suicide.

According to CBS News, "Prosecutors allege former detective Roger Golubski, Cecil Brooks, LeMark Roberson and Richard Robinson were all involved in the criminal activities, which lasted from 1996 to 1998, according to an announcement of the grand jury indictment by the Department of Justice on Monday. Brooks allegedly provided a location at an apartment building in Kansas City where young women were held."

CBS News also stated that all four men bullied the alleged victims with physical beatings, sexual assault, and threats to force the young women to provide sexual services to men. 

Golubski was also connected to the wrongful imprisonment of Lamonte McIntyre in 1994-who was 17 at the time of his arrest. McIntyre's mother said in an affidavit obtained by CBS that Golubski had coerced her into sexual acts and harassed her before her son was convicted based on "contradictory and coerced testimony" and no physical evidence. McIntyre served 23 years in prison before being exonerated and released in October 2017. Lamonte McIntyre settled a wrongful imprisonment lawsuit with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County for $12.5 million in 2022, according to Fox 4.

Lamonte McIntyre and his sister/Photo/KCUR.com

The county prosecutor's office will begin a $1.7 million effort to reexamine cases Golubski worked on during his 35 years on the force. It appears that Golubski was a volatile and overall "dirty" cop. Informants and the former officer's ex-wife reportedly revealed that Golubski was soliciting prostitutes and was caught having sex with a woman in his office, according to other reports obtained by CBS.

Rolling Stone reported that "Prosecutors said that between 1998 and 2001, Golubski forced one victim identified by the initials S.K. to perform oral sex on him inside his vehicle. They said Golubski also digitally and genitally penetrated the victim without her consent during sexual assaults and rapes that took place in and next to his vehicle on multiple occasions. Golubski allegedly started targeting the victim when she was a young teen in middle school."

Ophelia Williams. Photo/KansasCity.com

Golubski allegedly terrorized Ophelia Williams, by raping her in her home between 1999 and 2002. Prosecutors said Golubski also forced Williams to perform oral sex on him. Williams alleged that Golubski first raped her in 1999, shortly after her twin teen sons were arrested in connection with a homicide Golubski was investigating, the Wichita Eagle reported, according to Rolling Stone.

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