Kansas City security guard charged with kidnapping, raping second woman during work

A security guard charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman over the summer in Kansas City now faces additional rape allegations.

Brandon S. Wells, 39, of Kansas City, is now charged with first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, two counts of first-degree kidnapping and misdemeanor assault after two different women said he used his position as a security guard to detain and sexually assault them.

This comes after a second woman has stepped forward, telling police that Wells raped her in July behind a Waffle House on Front Street.

Kansas City police were initially called at about 4:30 a.m. July 9 to the area of 10th Street and Benton Boulevard by “Brandon Security,” according to a probable cause statement. When police showed up to the scene, they met up with Wells, who said he’d detained the woman for trespassing. But as Kansas City police were investigating the claim, they were instead called to a shooting in Independence.

Once police left, Wells told the woman he was taking her to jail, according to court records. Instead, she said, he took her to the parking lot of a Waffle House on Front Street.

In interviews with detectives, the woman said she told Wells “no” multiple times before he raped her. After, the woman told police “she was emotionally distraught, and could not eat, or talk, to anyone about what happened,” court records show.

Surveillance footage from the restaurant showed Wells’ vehicle, a white SUV with a light bar on top, pull up to the parking lot, then drive to the back. The video shows Wells pull the woman out of the back seat and take her over to the dumpster out of the camera’s view. Screaming is then heard.

Last week, a different victim told police that Wells also assaulted her.

The victim told detectives she left her boyfriend’s apartment around 4 a.m. Aug. 1 with her belongings, but she stopped to take a plastic trash bin from an abandoned home in the 900 block of Benton Boulevard after the bag she was carrying began to rip.

As this happened, Wells, who identified himself to the woman as a private security guard, pulled over in his vehicle and told her to put the bin back. She told police he had blond-tipped twists in his hair and was wearing police-style attire that included a patch identifying him as part of a “K-9 Unit,” according to court documents.

He instructed her to return the bin, which she did. Then, she said, he told her she was being detained for trespassing and possession of stolen property.

Wells put the woman in handcuffs, then lifted her shirt and pulled at her pants, according to court records.

He then put her in his “marked patrol vehicle” and told the woman to stay there while he went around the corner of the building to investigate “suspicious activity.”

When Wells returned, the woman said he told her there “has to be a punishment for everything” and instead of going to jail “you’re going to fill my needs.”

She said she was forced to perform oral sex on him, while handcuffed, and he spit in her face afterward. She said he told her to “get the hell out of here” and challenged her to file a police report.

“If you tell on me it won’t matter because this isn’t the first time and you’re just another drug addict,” she recalled him saying, according to court documents.

The woman visited a hospital but did not have a rape kit done after learning a nurse trained to do that was not present at the time. During a follow-up interview with police, she positively identified Wells from a photo lineup after a license-plate reading camera recorded his vehicle being driven on Independence Avenue in the early hours of Aug. 1.

In initial court fillings, detectives said they learned there was no security contract for the address where the woman said she was assaulted. Instead, they found Wells was working through United States Protective Service Inc., which had a contract for property on the same block. Records from the Missouri and Kansas secretary of state departments list Wells as an organizer of the security company.

On Aug. 9, Wells went to KCPD headquarters for a voluntary interview, court records show. He denied assaulting the woman, but confirmed he did stop her for taking a trash bin through his job as an armed security guard. GPS data from a third-party company that provides computer-aided dispatch for United States Protective Service showed Wells stopped the woman for about 30 minutes.

“I’m the person people love to hate,” he told detectives on Aug. 9. “I’m the guy making good detainments that lead to great arrests. I can’t help that I’m the one who is out there making a difference.”

Wells was taken into police custody on Aug. 16 in Florida. He was still there Monday, waiting to be extradited back to Missouri, the prosecutors office said. Online booking logs show Wells remained at the Miami-Dade metro jail Monday evening.

Wells is being held on a $500,000 cash bond. Online court records did not list a defense attorney for Wells as of Monday.

Police are asking that any other potential victims, or anyone who knows about Wells or the crimes he’s accused of, contact the anonymous TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS or 816-474-8477.

The Star’s Bill Lukitsch contributed.