KANSAS CITY, MO—David M. Ketchmark,
Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced
that a former Lansing, Kansas police officer and school board member was
sentenced in federal court today for attempting to entice a minor for illicit
sex.
William Brian Duncan, 41, of
Leavenworth, Kansas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs to 10
years in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered that, following
his incarceration, Duncan will be on supervised release for the rest of his
life.
On October 24, 2011, Duncan pleaded “no
contest” to using the Internet to attempt to entice a minor to engage in sexual
activity and to crossing the state line to attempt to engage in a sexual act
with a minor. Duncan was an officer with the Lansing, Kansas Police Department
until November 2010. He had been a DARE officer and coordinator of the Safe
Kids program and was named Officer of the Year in 2008. Duncan resigned from
the Lansing School Board in November 2010.
Duncan had numerous online conversations
with a person he believed to be 14 years old. In reality, Duncan was
communicating with an undercover law enforcement officer. Duncan corresponded
with the undercover officer on multiple occasions in December 2010; many of the
conversations were sexual in nature. Duncan made several statements indicative
of his criminal intent and desire to engage in sexual activity with the minor.
Duncan began making arrangements to meet
with the minor in person during an online chat on Tuesday, December 28, 2010.
Duncan drove from his residence in Kansas to the meeting location in Missouri
the next day with the intent to engage in sex with the 14-year-old minor. When
Duncan approached the location, he was pulled over by a Kansas City, Missouri
police officer and arrested.
This case was prosecuted by Assistant
U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore and Senior Litigation Counsel Gregg R. Coonrod. It
was investigated by the FBI Cyber Crimes Task Force.
This case was brought as part of Project
Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department
of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and
abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s
Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals
federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute
individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims.
For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit
www.usdoj.gov/psc For more information about Internet safety education, please
visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab “Resources.”
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