Topeka, Kansas
A federal grand jury in Topeka, Kansas, returned a three-count indictment, unsealed this week, charging former Kansas City Police Department detective Roger Golubski and three other men – Cecil Brooks, LeMark Roberson and Richard Robinson – with conspiring, decades ago, to hold young women in a condition of involuntary sexual servitude.
Brooks, Roberson and Robinson are also charged in a substantive count with holding a young woman, identified as Person 1, in a condition of involuntary servitude; and Brooks, Roberson, and Golubski are charged in a substantive count with holding another young woman, Person 2, in a condition of involuntary servitude.
According to the indictment, from 1996 through 1998, Brooks provided a location at Delevan Apartments in Kansas City, where young women were held and where Brooks, Roberson and Robinson used physical beatings, sexual assaults and threats to compel young women to provide sexual services to men.
Then detective Golubski is alleged to have accepted money from Brooks; provided protection from law enforcement for the criminal activity, including sex trafficking; and forcibly raped the young woman identified as Person 2.
The first count of the indictment charges all four men with conspiring to hold young women, including Person 1 and Person 2, in a condition of involuntary servitude; the second count charges Brooks, Roberson, and Robinson with holding Person 1 in involuntary servitude and forcing her to provide sexual services to Roberson; and the third count charges Brooks, Roberson and Golubski with holding Person 2 in involuntary servitude and forcing her to provide sexual services to adult men, including Brooks, Roberson and Golubski.
If convicted, each defendant faces up to life in prison. The defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
Golubski was previously charged, in a separate indictment, with civil rights violations for allegedly acting under color of law to commit aggravated sexual assaults.
Golubski, who retired from the Kansas City Police Department in 2010, was connected to the wrongful imprisonment of Lamonte McIntyre in 1994. At the time of his arrest, McIntyre was 17, according to CBS News.
CBS reported that McIntryre’s mother said in an affadavit 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. Golubski has denied any wrongdoing in that case.
The FBI Kansas City Field Office investigated the case in conjunction with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Hunting for the District of Kansas and Trial Attorney Tara Allison of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division are prosecuting the case.
This investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with additional information is encouraged to call the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI.