Men jailed after Missouri girl brought to Wichita for ‘inappropriate relations’
Two Wichita men are in jail after police found them with a 14-year-old Missouri runaway who was brought to Kansas for “purposes of inappropriate relations,” Wichita police spokesman Officer Charley Davidson said in a news release Friday.
Authorities found the runaway girl in a home in the 2700 block of North Amidon. One of the men was arrested in the immediate area. The other was arrested at a nearby home in the 2300 block of North Somerset.
Davidson said the Wichita Police Department’s Exploited and Missing Child Unit received information Thursday about the girl being in town from the FBI’s Wichita office and started investigating.
They discovered that one of the men — 19-year-old Kyle Robert Lee Ellery — had picked the girl up in Missouri and brought her back to Wichita for sex, Davidson said. Both Ellery and 20-year-old Devin Michael Miller were arrested and booked early Friday morning on suspicion of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, contributing to a child’s misconduct and aggravated interference with parental custody, he said.
Ellery is also being held on suspicion of sexual exploitation of a child, jail records show.
Police plan to present their cases against the men to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office for formal criminal charges. Ellery is being held in lieu of $100,000 bond, according to online jail records. Miller’s bond was listed as $10,000 late Friday afternoon.
This story was originally published January 17, 2020 at 5:00 PM.
