The former detective was also the subject of an explosive civil lawsuit filed by a wrongfully convicted man, Lamonte McIntyre, and his mother who claimed Golubski framed him for a double homicide in 1994 and committed a series of other crimes during his three-decade tenure. as a cop. The suit said Golubski “exploited and terrorized” black residents of the city’s north end.
The case, which went to trial in the fall, was settled over the summer for $12.5 million. Neither Golubski nor other officers involved admitted wrongdoing. An attorney representing Golubski in the case declined to comment.
The six-count indictment unsealed Thursday alleges that Golubski attacked the two women while acting “under color of law,” meaning he used his position as a police officer to commit the crimes, which prosecutors said occurred in late 1990s and early 2000s. Golubski retired from the department in 2010.
The women are referred to only by their initials, and the five-page indictment provides few details about the circumstances surrounding the alleged sexual assaults and abductions.
Golubski, 69, was taken into custody early Thursday at his home in suburban Kansas City, according to Police Chief Carl Oakman.
“They went to his house and knocked on the door and arrested him,” Oakman said in a brief telephone interview.
Oakman noted that the department has been “fully cooperating” with the FBI, but declined further comment.
News of Golubski’s arrest erupted on local social media Thursday, with social justice activists and politicians hailing the indictment. Khadijah Hardaway, a community organizer who has long called for Golubski’s arrest, celebrated in a Facebook post, “To God be all the Glory!” Kansas State Sen. Cindy Holser, a Democrat, wrote that “it is long past time to see Roger Golubski arrested.”
Team Roc, the social justice and philanthropic arm of rapper Jay-Z’s Roc Nation entertainment company, has unveiled a banner on their social media profiles. The group took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post last year, calling alleged police corruption in Kansas City “one of the worst examples of abuse of power in US history” and urging the Justice Department to investigate Golubski and the Kansas City Police Department. .
As CNN previously reported, several former police officers were subpoenaed before a grand jury last year. Terry Zeigler, a former chief who once worked as Golubski’s homicide partner, said he told the panel Golubski was oddly secretive about his personal life but that he had never seen him do anything wrong.
Golubski was expected to make an initial appearance in federal court in Topeka later today, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
